What kind of different excuses do you use to skip your office?

On the contrary Deepak, I find excuses to go to office!! Now don't freak out! As you must be knowing, how often we call strikes here and my colleagues just swear by those bandhs. They kind of seem so happy and plan out things ahead. But for me, it's completely different scenario. I hate skipping office, i hate falling ill which makes me take leave and if I could I would even go on Holidays. You must be thinking how weird it is! But it's true and my boss reminds me repeatedly NOT TO come to work in bandhs and that I must take leave to get charged up and stuffs like that. Coming to excuses, I remember my friend once took leave on grounds of his mother's delivery date!! His boss thought he was playing some kind of pranks! But he didnot lie. His mother was supposed to give birth from her second husband! BTW, do you? And how? Happy making excuses and have fun.

Hello my friend dpk262006 Ji, Well, Thogh I am purely house-wife and always remained a house wife after my marriage, however, when I was a taecher at school, before my marriage, such a situation did warrant,when I had to lie for explaining, tthat I was late to join as my cycle was puncthured/traffic-jam, I took shelter from natural clameties. But I never believed to make someone felt sick, when they were not. Next face the music used to be my way of dealing the subject. Because, I even today believe, truth will alays be helpful. Lies will multiplymore lies only. May god bless you and have a great time.

I try not to skip work for whatever reasons. Usually, it is when one of my kids is not well and my husband can't stay home, I have to take off and then I tell the real reason. If it's a function I need to attend which I cannot miss, I tell the truth. lol..the trick I think is that I rarely ask permission for leave. I just state the fact that I am not coming on such and such a day for such and such a reason and will give it in writing if necessary.

What a wife! Hi Deepak!I do not have this problem;but I just want to share a joke with you-a person who was weak in English had to write a leave letter and he wrote it in the following manner."As I am suffering from my sister's marriage, I would like to take leave from --date to --date." [earlier he had learnt to write a letter when he had had fever.]

LOL that sounds like a good excuse to me hehehehehe I try not to make many excuses because the more I lie the less I remember what I told LOL usually I tell them I can't come. I have learned that we are the ones trying to explain all the reasons why we can't go to work and often they don't really need them or want them. Humans have a tendency of over explaining:) I sometimes comment on why I can't go, or if I'm calling the same day for some emergency I might mention it. But often I just say that I need that day off, without explaining why. It has worked so far, but then again I don't do it that often.

Well the usual excuses will work ,I ma sick ,I have an emergency etc .Luckily at my work place we are given about 15 days casual leaf and 15 days sick leave.When you have exhasuted these days you may ask for emmergency days but I think these will come out of your pay.It seems however that our work situation is not as strict as yours.

Well, as for me, i usually make an excuse like i'm not feeling so well. Although at times, i tell my superior that i have some family errands to do. I make up excuses which can be believed by my office so that there would no questions asked anymore when i return to work. :-)

Hi dpk, I can relate to this since I have done this before..I used to pretend I am sick when I don't like to attend work due to some appointments...

I have never needed to make an excuse to take time off work for social ceremonies. If I need to book a holiday I will book it well in advance. I’m not sure what sort of things you mean when you say social ceremonies? Generally people who want others to attend things like their wedding ceremony will book it on a weekend. If it’s a close friend they will give you advance notice. In this country (UK), I’ve never had a holiday rejected when I’ve booked it far enough in advance according to the company rules. Even where I work now, if I need to take a day off at short notice, even if I needed one tomorrow, if an emergency came up, my boss is flexible enough to allow me the time off. I think as a manager, I would be very suspicious if someone asked for a day off that was rejected as it was too short notice and then suddenly that person called in sick on that day. It’s happened in the past at other companies I’ve worked at and people have had disciplinary meetings over it. I guess things are different in India. When I was there last time I went on holiday with my cousin for 4 days and she’s a doctor and had booked her holiday months in advance. On the 3rd day of the holiday they rang up her home and said she needed to attend work the next day as they were short staffed, how stupid were they? Did they think we could change the airline schedule and get back a day earlier than scheduled when they knew we had gone out of state? Weirdos!

I have sorts of excuses, when I am going to be late. I will say that I was withdrawing a cash at the ATM and then my card was stucked in the machine and I have to report it to the bank guard but then the bank guard don't know what to do so we waited for employees to arrived to solve my problem. Sometimes I do alibis like there was no public utility vehicle and there was a heavy traffic. When I planned to be absent my reason was that I have soreyes , there was a problem in the house, or some sort of emergency.

Usually I will use "sick" as an excuse *laughs*. Come to think of it, I haven't applied sick leave for awhile as an excuse, usually I am really sick and then I will apply for a leave, like today!

Hi Dpk, Before answering your question I just want to ask one thing to you? Do you want to help your dear friends by way of giving tips to them as, how can make excuses for skipping the office? Or do you want to learn more excuses to skip office? Fortunately my boss is very nice person so there was no necessity to telling lies for getting a leave. My colleagues are also cooperative as they know that my kids are small and I may take a leave anytime without prior notice. But most of the time I inform them if I have any problem.

I think I should keep a track of the replies you get to this discussion because I have to learn to give excuses for getting my leave sanctioned. I have always told the truth to my boss. I have never tried making up stories just to get leave. Now for the past one month I have been trying to get my leave sanctioned because the year is coming to an end and our leave is not carried forward to next year. But my leave has not yet been sanctioned. I have now been told that I can take a few days leave next week but I am still doubtful about it.

Hi dpk! I personally haven't used any excuses to leave work that are odd ,but being in management,I have certainly heard a few.I had someone tell me once a dog chewed a hole in their tire.lol..I guess it's possible but I don't know. I had a girl that would call and tell me about once that she thought her husband was being unfaithful and just could not emotionally stand to come in until she hunted him down and found out. That one is a little more believable but it was often she was hunting him down.lol.Take care.

I would not think of making an excuse to get leave or take some time off from work. On the contrary my present job has had its times demanding a number of hours of work which i have gone about doing without a whimper. And since i am into this with a friend have given it my whole hearted effort. In return i have never been questioned anytime about my desire to take some time off for whatever reason. When ever i do need the break i give them the actual reason and go about it.

I usually said I was sick or had an appointment to attend to or something like that. There are just some days that you just have to get out of there.

In the past I have received a lot of unique excuses from employees that I supervised, they ranged from my dog buried my car keys in the backyard, which is the adult version of my dog ate my homework, to I can't come in tomorrow, I will be busy planning an good illness that will last through the weekend. On the other hand, I just simply tell the truth, I'm burned out and am taking a day for myself unless you'd rather I quit and let you tow the whole load. It has never failed me yet.

We are required to call the office two hours before our shift to let them know that we cannot come to work. There was a time when we were in my cousin's wedding and I have to work three hours from that time, I called my boss with the help of my cousins that there is a fire in our neighborhood. Everybody is screaming to make it realistic. I told my boss that we are all packing up our things. It worked. :D

Mmmmm... interesting! I'm actually a workaholic and I love to work, but when the lazy bug bits me, my brain churns a lot of excuses that I actually used. Here are just some of them: 1. "I failed to pay our electric bill for three months and I needed to settle it with the power company else we won't have electricity for a few days." 2. "My bed was infested with ants, and when I woke up, my face was all swollen because of the bites. I couldn't even open my eyes." 3. "I had to rush my puppy to the vet. I think he swallowed a chocolate bar." 4. "My uncle arrived from the States. I had to pick him at the airport and show him aroun. He has not been home for ten years." 5. "I have diarrhea." 6. "My doctor says I have arthritis and I have to rest my hand for a day." I know they're lame. But some of them were actually true, most I just made up. I actually got very good at making excuses that my friends would text me if they don't want to go to work and ask what their excuse this time will be. Not that I'm proud of it, but sometimes we gotta rest, you know. If our bosses will just grant our leaves, then there won't be a need for us to fabricate stories.

I'll tell the truth because when I tell a lie my face will sell me. In my opinion whatever one lie can't be used frenquently otherwise no one will believe you again. That will be a pity. In fact more and more bosses are humanistic. After all they have a family, too. I like to serve in these type companies.