{"id":1769,"date":"2008-10-30T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2008-10-29T06:26:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:26:20","slug":"actual-excuses-for-missing-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/actual-excuses-for-missing-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Actual Excuses For Missing Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CareerBuilder.com usually runs some sort of &#8220;unusual reasons for missing work&#8221; story every year.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com\/2008\/10\/22\/no-really-your-excuse-is-totally-believable-cough-cough-2008s-most-unusual-excuses-for-missing-work\/#more-1091?sc_extcmp=JP_Mail_THS_Excuses\" target=\"_blank\">This year&#8217;s offering<\/a> is refined down to 8 entries, but is still fairly entertaining.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thanksgiving karma\u00a0 |<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Employee hit a turkey (yes, a turkey) while riding a bike.<br \/>\n<em>Author\u2019s Note:<\/em><strong> <\/strong>Animals <strong>&#8211; <\/strong>turkeys in particular &#8211; seem to be a hot topic this year. See our <a href=\"http:\/\/thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com\/2008\/10\/07\/was-craig-in-human-resources-a-former-liberace-mansion-bartender-the-results-of-careerbuildercoms-most-unusual-jobs-survey\/\">\u201cUnusual Jobs\u201d survey results<\/a> for more on this phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Near-death experiences\u00a0 |\u00a0 <\/strong>Employee said he had a heart attack that morning, but that he was \u201call better now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Just can\u2019t find a thing to wear\u00a0 |\u00a0 <\/strong>Employee\u2019s wife burned all his clothes and he had nothing to wear to work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>They don\u2019t have rifles, so\u2026\u00a0 |<\/strong>\u00a0 Employee got kicked by a deer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paging Dionne Warwick\u00a0 |\u00a0 <\/strong>Employee\u2019s psychic told her to stay home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lightweight\u00a0 |<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Employee\u2019s toe was injured when a soda can fell out of the refrigerator.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Driving the dog to drink\u00a0 |<\/strong>\u00a0 Employee\u2019s dog was stressed out after a family reunion\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kissed and unfortunately told\u00a0 |<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Employee contracted mono after kissing a mailroom intern at the company\u2019s holiday party &#8211; and suggested the company post some sort of notice to warn others who may have kissed him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That second one made me laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerBuilder.com usually runs some sort of &#8220;unusual reasons for missing work&#8221; story every year.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s offering is refined down to 8 entries, but is still fairly entertaining. Thanksgiving karma\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Employee hit a turkey (yes, a turkey) while riding a bike. Author\u2019s Note: Animals &#8211; turkeys in particular &#8211; seem to be a hot topic this year. See our \u201cUnusual Jobs\u201d survey results for more on this phenomenon. Near-death experiences\u00a0 |\u00a0 Employee said he had a heart attack that morning, but that he was \u201call better now.\u201d Just can\u2019t find a thing to wear\u00a0 |\u00a0 Employee\u2019s wife burned all his clothes and he had nothing to wear to work.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/actual-excuses-for-missing-work\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,11,24],"tags":[1065,1063,1064],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-sx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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