This list was compiled following research undertaken among HR managers at last year’s CIPD Annual Conference.
Over the two day event Activ Absence collated more than 60 genuine excuses managers had heard from their teams and shortlisted the top 20 craziest excuses.
Discover them here:
- I don't have the bus fare to get to work after my night out
- I dreamed I had come to work, so thought I was there and stayed asleep
- I went on a sunbed and got sunstroke
- I lost my flipflop down the side of a train, so I had to go home
- I didn't have any clean clothes
- My bed was too nice to get out of
- Manchester United lost the Premiership
- I lost my car in the car park (there were only 20 spaces)
- My television broke
- The roof blew off my house
- Goats got into my garden
- I have a cotton bud stuck in my ear
- Fell out of bed and banged my head
- I have post coital soreness
- I got bitten by a llama
- My dog got lost in the snow
- My cat had a miscarriage
- The dog urinated on my suit
- My dog ate my car keys
- I don't think my hamster is well, he seems a bit sluggish this morning
I don't have the bus fare to get to work after my night out
I dreamed I had come to work, so thought I was there and stayed asleep
I went on a sunbed and got sunstroke
I lost my flipflop down the side of a train, so I had to go home
I didn't have any clean clothes
My bed was too nice to get out of
Man U lost the premiership
I lost my car in the car park (there were only 20 spaces)
My television broke
The roof blew off my house
Goats got into my garden
I have a cotton bud stuck in my ear
Fell out of bed and banged my head
I have post coital soreness
This one is definitely not getting a picture
I got bitten by a llama
My dog got lost in the snow
My cat had a miscarriage
The dog urinated on my suit
My dog ate my car keys
I don't think my hamster is well, he seems a bit sluggish this morning
(Pretend it's a hamster)