Posted on 02/27/2014 7:21:52 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum
A new national survey by Careerbuilder,com puts traffic on top with 39 per cent of those surveyed. There’s nothing like that helpless feeling of sitting in traffic knowing you’re going to be late for work. Next up, lack of sleep at 19 per cent, followed by problems with bad trabsportation at 8 per cent. 7 per cent blame the weather, 6 percent are late due to dropping children at daycare or school and fifteen per cent of employees of employees admit to arriving late for work at least once a week.
But there are other more unusual excuses like…
(Excerpt) Read more at nj1015.com ...
Reason for the above: 'I ate a whole bag of Sugar-Free Gummy Bears last night.'
The problem with starting early is that when you leave after 8 hours, everyone else thinks you’re cutting out early!
“The problem with starting early is that when you leave after 8 hours, everyone else thinks you’re cutting out early!”
Not with my job. I’m on the schedule from 6am - 4pm Monday thru Thursday, and 6am - 11am on Friday. Most everyone else starts at 7 or 8 am and works till 5. I don’t have to answer to anyone in the morning.
Got about a mile from home on a 5F morning and popped a tire. The idiot I worked for had this annoying habit of booming out “GOOD AFTERNOON” to anyone who was more than ten seconds late. I was still shivering when I arrived about 10 minutes late to a rousing “GOOD AFT...” “Flat Tire” I growled.
“Oooookay.”
My Senior Chief at an EOD unit was sitting at a RR crossing when the guy across from him looked him in the eye, pulled out and put it in park centered up across the tracks as the oncoming freight train approached. He stared my Senior Chief in the eyes up to the point of impact when his head pretty much detonated.
Senior was late that day. I gave him a pass. Then again, I was just PO1 so my approval did not matter.
well 2 weeks ago I just said “You saw me in the snow bank down the street and waved you hand, remember?”
6. Zombies
7. Swedish Bikini Team bus got a flat and was blocking the highway until I changed the tire.
8. Twerking accident.
9. Chupacabras
10. Yeah, it was definitely Zombies.
I would have told her that is no excuse because I have the clap and made it in on time.
See I go a different route now then I used to (similar to yours before). Now I tell them - your grown ups I don’t give a damn how you manage your time - get the work done on time and correct, address the priorities appropriately and attend to the meetings and communications you need to to do #1 and 2. I watch the metrics and talk to others if I have questions we’ll talk about it during our recurring 1-1.
I’ve been trying to sign up for Obamacare.
But that won't work if you have an anal retentive, suck ass manager who himself will leave home 3 hours early just so he can make it in to work and prove to HIS manager that he is a loyal manager.........
That's never really happened to me but I did used to work for an anal retentive, suck ass manager who was constantly trying to suck up to his boss, the corp V.P. of HR.......
Best: I did not want to come to work.
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No one will remember, you can use it again!
My dear mother up and died!
Boss: Again?
I had an uncle who has died at least five times!
“The voices told me to stay home and clean the guns.”
You can have two mommies now.
And they are prohibited from asking “REALLY?”.
Heather apparently has a dog named Randy.
Blame it on a youtube video. Weather report said it was going to be CRAZY BAD out there. Or at least crazy...
http://www.youtube.com/user/dogsandwolves/videos?view=0&flow=grid
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