Tardy Excuses "Spring Forward"
So, in the interests of preparing you for what you may hear, temporary staffing firm Accountemps has compiled a list of the most imaginative explanations that 150 executives with the nation’s 1,000 largest companies say they have heard from tardy employees. Here’s a sampling of what can only be described as the adult equivalent of “my dog ate my homework”:
- “The dog was asleep behind the car and I couldn’t back out of the driveway.”
- “My dog swallowed my car keys.”
- “My dog didn’t come back after I let him out.”
- “I hit a mountain lion on the way to work.” (employers also recalled tales of unfortunate run-ins with moose and bears on the morning commute, according to the report).
Of course, these days it’s a lot more complicated getting to work than it once was, or at least it was for these folks:
- “A helicopter landed in the street and I couldn’t get around it.”
- “My garage door was frozen shut.”
- “My car keys fell into the toilet.”
- “The elevators in this building are too slow.”
- “I tried a new way into work and it took me two hours.”
- “The traffic lights were mis-timed on my way in.”
- “The line at Starbucks was out the door.”
Then there were the ones from folks who appear to be clueless about when and where:
- “I forgot what day it was. I thought it was the weekend.”
- “I couldn’t remember which time zone I was in.”
- “My wife and son took both cars and when I went outside there was nothing in the driveway.”
And then there are the ones that you just wish you could have been there to hear:
- “I was kidnapped by aliens.”
- “I’m not late. I decided to change my hours to make them more convenient.”
- “My roommate locked me in the bathroom.”
- “We had a death in the family.” (this might have worked better if this employee hadn’t told his boss this same family member had died several months earlier).
- “I couldn’t find a tie to match my shirt.”
- “The wind was blowing against me.”
- “My husband’s pet spider died and I had to console him.”
- “The bartender wouldn’t let me leave.”
And finally, there was one that might come up Monday as most of us “spring forward” – “I felt it was better to sleep in at home versus sleep at the office.”
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