Can't give you any as I am presently just finished my 4th year of perfect attendance in this job. I don't get paid any more, or thought of better than any of the other multi non attendees. Suppose I just do it for mysef.
I worked construction for many years, here are some of the reasons we were sent home
Rain out
Snow out
Wind out
Mud out
Freeze out (working area iced over)
Sun out (too hot to work)
And now come the two great ones..........
Bug out (a swarm of bees took over the work area)
Drum roll...........
The winner is
Boat out ( While converting a tanker to a floating refinery a storm broke the mooring lines and the boat was blown across the harbour!!!!!)
Can't top that... But talking with one of my good friends, he had an interesting (yet weird) idea of not coming to work and "calling in scared." He figures that everyone "calls in sick" and some wise guys even "call in dead" but no one has ever called in scared... hehe. I wonder how that would go over.
BTW, speaking of which, I thought this little cellphone ad was quite brilliant. Take a look. http://www.snotr.com/video/1954
A few years ago my coworkers and I were working a tight schedule with unrealistic deadlines and my boss said, "No one call in sick!!" Well, one morning, I slipped my foot into a dress shoe and felt a horrible sting. I went to work, but I could barely walk from the parking lot to the office building. By lunch my foot was swollen to twice its size and I could not wear my shoe. And, to get about I had to rest a knee on the seat of my office chair and kick off with the other foot as if I were riding a scooter. I never complained, but before I went to lunch my boss gave in and let me go home. That afternoon, I went to the doctor who said I must have been bitten by a recluse, but I don't think it was that bad. Regardless, I couldn't walk on it for a week.
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