excuses

[Scotdy]

True story. I couldn't have time off but knew my contract was coming to an end a month later so I rang in and said my dad died and had two weeks paid leave. Five years on and I am still at the same place, no idea what to say when he pops his clog's!!

[Guest]

There's something very odd in saying your dad has died to get some time off work.

In the end, when someone's friend or relative has died, it is no longer wrong for your employer to at least suspect the possibility of you lying. Which, if it were true, would be the worst thing.

Were people sympathetic to you? Did you have to feign sadness?

Edited January 29, 2014 by tonyblair

[Yesiamaduck]

Say you were on your way to work and woke up in a farm

[jeffie]

Say you were on your way to work and woke up in a farm

[rischbrit]

I have to book my leave off a year in advance and touch wood never been a problem yet with it being outside the main summer holiday season.

I'd go for the stress or the shits problem. However make sure you wear lots of sun cream and don't go back to work with a sun tan. Could be interesting to explain that one........

[formed a band]

If the people who have faith in you to pay you on a regular basis then if they have good reason not to be able to allow you tome off then really you need to respect it.

If they have no good reason then you need a new job

If you are messing with exams and your future for the sake of a festival you must be retarded

Lies about sickness and bereavement will only come back to haunt you

[Mardy]

ah, people take exams too seriously, I think I skipped a couple to go to some ropey festival in Canterbury, turned out alright. Nobody starves.

Toads

Why should I let the toad work

Squat on my life?

Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork

And drive the brute off?

Six days of the week it soils

With its sickening poison -

Just for paying a few bills!

That’s out of proportion.

Lots of folk live on their wits:

Lecturers, lispers,

Losers, loblolly-men, louts-

They don’t end as paupers;

Lots of folk live up lanes

With fires in a bucket,

Eat windfalls and tinned sardines-

They seem to like it.

Their nippers have got bare feet,

Their unspeakable wives

Are skinny as whippets - and yet

No one actually _starves_.

Ah, were I courageous enough

To shout, Stuff your pension!

But I know, all too well, that’s the stuff

That dreams are made on:

For something sufficiently toad-like

Squats in me, too;

Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,

And cold as snow,

And will never allow me to blarney

My way of getting

The fame and the girl and the money

All at one sitting.

I don’t say, one bodies the other

One’s spiritual truth;

But I do say it’s hard to lose either,

When you have both.

[A13]

Or tape some uncooked fish to the underneath of their desks. As time goes on they'll get completely paranoid about the smell, and that people think that it's them that smells. It'll be a pyrrhic victory, but you'll be able to hold your head up high.

[LondonTom]

Have you considered trying to strike a deal to work a bit of overtime the weeks before/after?? (Obviously depends on what you do).

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

There's something very odd in saying your dad has died to get some time off work.

[Guest]

It feels like it diminishes the awfulness of someone dying if people are happy to use it as an excuse for anything

example 1:

"hi how are you today?"

"oh, not so good, my dad just died"

"oh that's awful"

"nah, just kidding"

example 2:

"hi, how's things?"

"pretty bad, my dad just died"

"yeah right"

it's like we can't respond to anything without being cynical

[Funkyfairy!]

My boss asked me the day after ticket day if I got tickets and then laughed saying - holiday approved :-) - actually he's never turned down any holiday even when I've wanted a month off in one go or carry tons forward to the next year - guess I am super lucky.... but think I would look for another job if it was turned down for Glasto :-)

[Scotdy]

There's something very odd in saying your dad has died to get some time off work.

In the end, when someone's friend or relative has died, it is no longer wrong for your employer to at least suspect the possibility of you lying. Which, if it were true, would be the worst thing.

Were people sympathetic to you? Did you have to feign sadness?

[Guest]

You don't get time off if a friend dies, and now have to produce the order of service card from the funeral to get paid time off.

Edited January 29, 2014 by tonyblair

[russycarps]

If the people who have faith in you to pay you on a regular basis then if they have good reason not to be able to allow you tome off then really you need to respect it.

If they have no good reason then you need a new job

If you are messing with exams and your future for the sake of a festival you must be retarded

Lies about sickness and bereavement will only come back to haunt you

[russycarps]

That's unbelievable. I always wonder what would happen if they'd really been diagnosed a couple of days after the all clear. I know the chances aren't huge, but I couldn't live that lie for 6 months. It only takes one little slip up and you're rumbled.

Edited January 29, 2014 by russycarps

[stuartbert two hats]

That cancer story is horrific. I've been in an office where someone was ill with a serious condition (they're better now) and it affected us all, because we knew them and cared. Sod the company, surely this would have upset some of their colleagues?

[stuartbert two hats]

Oh I agree. Anyone that thinks that lying that you have cancer is carcogenic in itself is mad IMO. What I meant was if you say you've got the all clear, people aren't gonna believe that it's "returned" a couple of days later.

And you'd have to be a really hard-nosed bastard to not care about the stigma of everyone knowing you'd lied about something like that. I could see friends being lost TBH.

[Guest]

That cancer story is horrific. I've been in an office where someone was ill with a serious condition (they're better now) and it affected us all, because we knew them and cared. Sod the company, surely this would have upset some of their colleagues?

[russycarps]

To be fair, if you'd had the "all clear", you're not cured, you're in remission. If there is one disease that people would believe had "returned", it's cancer!

Edited January 29, 2014 by russycarps

[carlosj]

Cos southerners are cold heartless twats.

It's worth a little travelling to gigs every now and then in order to avoid having to live with you lot on a daily basis!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Another friend of mine rang work one day and came up with the excuse that he couldn't get out of the house as his loving mother had put the dead locks on and inadvertently taken his keys as well. He followed this up with the fact that he didn't have a key to the window locks either. Rather amazingly his boss on the other end said that the same thing had happened to him and for my mate not to worry about coming in that day. So he, me and the rest of us who had all rang in sick as well carried on the sesh. You can't beat being on the sesh and getting paid for it.

I know it's not for everyone but I do feel that a disregard for one's employer is a healthy thing.

[russycarps]

I know it's not for everyone but I do feel that a disregard for one's employer is a healthy thing.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

damn right, assuming it's a big faceless corporation. Fuck them, fuck them all.

[Tomo18]

i work for a housing association and june is the busiest time of year for me

some newbie got in first when he started and got his holidays straight in..

i dislike the inquestion newbie due to this issue

ive got a dodgy knee from playing football and been off with that before so might start 'playing football' again in the weeks leading up,

was also thinking of screwing them up by taking the week before and week after off for them just being plain and simply unreasonable...