What's you common excuse when you're late for work

Pasay, Philippines
May 13, 2012 8:18pm CST
Guess what; you can't help being late sometimes. There are two factors, external and internal. External is when something bad happened and you can't handle it in any aspect that you will see it (e.g: raining, traffic, sudden changes) and internal when you feel like not going to work and you're not going to do so. I was wondering, if everyone here in mylot have been employed once; what was your common excuse to your boss when your late (aside from the common "traffic" blames whether it is controllable or not) and how effective does your boss bites into it. Or why this excuse is your favorite. Share me your best "excuse".
18 responses
• Philippines
18 May 12
I think that there's no such thing as best excuse. Things happen differently everyday, however, when you're late that's it already and there should be no excuses. You may try to explain the matter but never give an excuse because you are the only one responsible for such actions.
@johndur (3052)
• Pasig, Philippines
15 May 12
one of my best excuse why im late is...train got derailled and i have to walk half mile to the nearest train station....
@bing28 (3795)
• Philippines
15 May 12
Though I seldom got late when I was still working as our house was just a walking distance from my office, my common excuse was that I had a hard time getting up due I was not feeling well, I had a slight headache. Though I made it as an excuse but really that's the cause of getting late sometimes.
• Philippines
14 May 12
Hello Resycurapika, I remember when working for a call center, every single night i would encounter night traffic and then come to work at least 5 to 30 min. late.at first i always apologize and give my reasons, until i stop reasoning and just go to my work. sometimes, we can't avoid being late and it's just natural process of life in the work place
@MissPiggy (1748)
• Indonesia
14 May 12
Getting up late. Lol. Everybody in the office, even my manager, knows that I ALWAYS get up late. Not that I always come late, but they all know that at 9 am, I'm still on my bed. So they never disturb me that time. Besides, what's the benefit of working at 11 am? Getting up late, of course.
• Philippines
14 May 12
hello, my common excuse when i got late usually its about my children,they don't want to let me go to work especially my 3 year old baby girl.
@GemmaR (8517)
14 May 12
I think that the most common excuse that I have seen for people being late for work is the fact that there is traffic on the roads. In my opinion, this is something that shouldn't be a problem for people because they should know what the roads are like around where they live, and if there is likely to be some traffic then they should make more of an effort to leave early so that they're not affected. I also hear a lot of people say that their alarm clock didn't go off either, and I don't believe them most of the time, I think it's much more likely that they just took the decision to stay in bed for a little bit longer.
@chevill (316)
• Philippines
14 May 12
i usually say the obvious traffic in our country, with left by the shuttle service on the side. hehehe!
@asdomencil (4265)
• Philippines
14 May 12
In our work, we have a flexible time. We cannot be late because you can always extend your time to cover the rquired number of hours to complete for a day. One of the common excuse is the traffic, but you said it is exception. I think, transportation problem is one. But when I came late than the usual time, I used to tell my colleagues that my alarm did not work. hehehe
@ryanong (9665)
• Vietnam
14 May 12
Currently i am quite free in work, i can go or go home anytime i want, so that i don't think of how to excuse when i go to work late... But in here, people often say because of traffic jams....because traffic jams may happens to anytime, anywhere in my city...
@cttolledo (5462)
• Legaspi, Philippines
14 May 12
Hi resy21curapika, its really funny i can relate with this.. lol..my common excuse is LBM..
@krizzy (237)
• Philippines
14 May 12
I overslept..LOL..or having dismenorrea..this excuse of mine is always true because having a menstrual pain is very hard..luckily my boss understands me and doesn't get angry with me..:p..the overslept excuse is just a joke..I just want to sleep longer..LOL
@superbadx (484)
• Malaysia
14 May 12
Well, i am a person who really like to take advantage for people kindness. For example, when i'm working with people that really don't mind i'm being late, i would usually get in late, but of course they will ask and i will just say that i woke up late, there's some kind of problem, or anything simple and most people would use. But if i am working for someone that is very strict, i would try my best to get in early. But if i do come late for some reason, i would just say the same thing i say earlier and they would get mad for like five minutes or so and then i can get back to my work.
• Philippines
14 May 12
My boss knows that I live very far from where we are working so most of the time, I can convince him that it was the mean traffic that made me late for work, but that rarely happen because I make it a point to leave early for work. I guess the rareness of the situation is one of the reason why my boss is very forgiving to me.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
14 May 12
I am not always late for work, i think i would only be late a few times over a course of the year, sometimes even not a single late as i try hard not to be late for work so i can also get off work early. =) Well there are those times i was late but there was no excuse, i had to tell my boss why i was late and what caused it and i think that was the time when the mrt broke and i had to transfer from one to another, but everyone had to get off a station and there was thrice as much people in the station waiting for another train to come. i think i was an hour late at the time! For me, there is no reason to be late, when habitually you are late, maybe you need to change your and put an allowance as for your preparation, know which way is the best for you to go to your work from home, among other things.
@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
14 May 12
when i use to work, i use to use the excuse that my bus came late, or it broke down. it really didn't matter in the end, because the computer took your time and counted you late no matter what.
@mervyn07 (437)
• Singapore
14 May 12
I will always change the reasons, you can either use the most common like traffic condition and also uncommon one is Handphone hang, so alarm did not work too
• India
14 May 12
I usually used to have simple common excuses at my teachers if I am late to my school. I usually used to tell the excuse no bus!. The local buses going through my school is less and it is a good reasonable excuses. Sometimes teachers also used to get late by the same issues