What's your best excuse for taking a day off work?

Ohh lorrs .. when I was working I used to have so many days off .. mainly for genuine reasons .. I was always so tired and achey .. but I didn't know then I had fibromyalgia .. Early o in my working life I do remember I had one very good excuse I used when I wanted to play hookey ... I used to ring up and say i was sorry couldn't go in to work that day as i have a bad case of 'Blepharitis' .. I;m going back to the 70's and early 80's when they just took your word for it and never checked what illnesses you said you were having .. Blepharitis is near enough dandruff of the eyelashes .. not a nice disease to anyone who suffers with it as it can cause all sorts or itching, swollen eyelids and redness .. but it sounded sufficiently 'nasty' to use as a 'day off' excuse .. and if challenged could always say about the rednes and swollen eyelids and get away with needing the day off ..

I do have a very unusual excuse someone tried to give me for not going to work. They had slept in and I had to send someone to get them(remote hotel).When he came in,he explained that he had not been sleeping too well and took a sleeping pill to help him.He had a dream that night that the hotel had burnt down so he figured work had been cancelled. I gave him credit for the story and got him to get back to work.

It was when I was with my friend and we had been invited up to a party up in Rugby, I was supposed to be working the dreaded late shift, the party was too good to miss, and it wasn't as if it was regular. But here is the embarrassing bit, wanting to give them plenty of time to get my shift covered, I phoned on the morning I was going up on the train, I didn't have my car then. So I phone on the train, ok and I sound very very convincing, great acting like that! Then suddenly as I was on the phone, there was an announcement on the train, about the train going to Birmingham or somewhere, the person on the other end of the line couldn't fail to hear it, I was absolutely mortified. It spoilt the party because I couldn't stop thinking about it. Serves me right for throwing a sicky I suppose. When I got back the supervisor made a sarcastic comment to me but it never went any further, needless to say I never pulled a fake sicky again. Talk about caught red handed.

I have never done that. I even went to work when I was not feeling well. I had a business at one time, and I heard every kind of excuse, including the truth. "I don't feel like coming into work today." "I want to go to the beach, I have crabs, I have a stomach ach, I have my period, my car broke down, my car has a flat, it's too cold."

i take a day off because i needed to rest and thats a good reason.

I always tell the truth for getting any leave.Reason for leave may be different, important work at home, illness, etc.

My main excuse is personal work at home, no one asks what personal, that much ethics people have.

Well, I am not employed outside the home, so I don't need to make excuses. However, I have a few health problems, so whenever my husband takes a day off work, he just phones to say I am unwell. His boss knows of my condition and is very understanding, so he doesn't mind. My husband would only do it when things are a bit slack at work, but he woule never do it while they are busy.

I am sure that I lied quite a bit, but it's been such a long while since I've been in the work force, I've actually forgotten my best one - or any one for that matter ~Donna

My best excuse was actually true. I told my boss that I couldn't work because I was rasioactive and couldn't be around children or pregnant women, and since I worked in retail there was no way to ensure I would not come in contact with them. It was true because I had a really bad hyperthyroid that I had to have removed. The doctors didn't really want to do sugery, and I didn't want them to either, so they used radioactive iodine. They had to use the highest dose allowed by law. It was really kind of freaky. I am sitting there in this little room and in walks a person all dressed up in one of those suits you see in the movies. They go over to this wierd freezer and pull out a cansiter. then they bring the conister over to me, and tell me to sit on my hands. So I sit on my hands and they open up this canister and drop a pill into a cup. they tell me to tip my head back and when they drop the pill in my mouth to swallow without letting it touch antying but my tongue. So I did it. it was not really easy, but in the end it worked. I actually had to stay out of work for one week because of the radiation, and I wasn't supposed to get pregnant for at least a year. Now I have to take a pill every day for the rest of my life, but it is better than what I went through when my thyroid was out os wack.

I always tell the truth when I'm taking a day off or calling in. My life is full of so many surprises, I could never make up these excuses! For example, I had to call off today because my furnace took a dump on me (I live in sub zero Michigan) and had to get it fixed. It all worked out very well and we have heat!! I do have the luxury of networking in from home, so I did end up working a 1/2 a day anyway. :-)

Haven't ever done it but brother got caught out big time was caught watching tennis at Winbledon lol he got a verbal warning!

I'd usually just phone in sick. I'd call the office that I am not feeling well and will have to take the day off, while on my casual clothes getting ready for a day of enjoyment! LOL I love 'emergency dayoffs!' =P

i will tell the truth. i can't really take my day off. so when i ask for it, there must be a good reason. other than that reason, just to rest. they will accept it without any question

Sometimes if you just say you need the rest or want to go out with friends you will never get the day off you want, so I used to say I'm not feeling well, have a cold or whatever and I never get caught with it.. yet. lol