The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

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  • Lagonda
    Service Manager

    Site Contributor
    1,000+ Posts
    • Aug 2008
    • 1650

    The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

    At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.
  • blackcat4866
    Master Of The Obvious

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    10,000+ Posts
    • Jul 2007
    • 22703

    #2
    Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

    Only one door? No windows? You've got to be kidding. =^..^=
    If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
    1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
    2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
    3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
    4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
    5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

    blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=

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    • ZOOTECH
      Senior member of CRS

      Site Contributor
      2,500+ Posts
      • Jul 2007
      • 3381

      #3
      Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

      ??? Was he in jail ???
      "You can't trust your eyes, if your mind is out of focus" --

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      • 20 year tech
        Senior Tech

        500+ Posts
        • May 2014
        • 580

        #4
        Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

        back when I first started I worked at a mom and pop dealer and we had hired some kid just out of high school to work in the shop, it snowed one day and it got to be around nine in the morning and he hadn't shown up yet so the owner calls him up to see if he was ok and apparently he thought since schools were closed so were we.

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        • Coptech
          worker drone

          250+ Posts
          • Dec 2009
          • 460

          #5
          Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

          Don't pay the ransom...I escaped!

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          • Phil B.
            Field Supervisor

            10,000+ Posts
            • Jul 2016
            • 22808

            #6
            Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

            sounds like this boy doesn't own up to his responsibility, he agreed to do work... he doesn't show up and has a lame excuse.. ( he doesn't have keys... or there isn't a turn knob on the deadbolt?)

            had a girl working for me decades ago... fast food... summer in NC 90+ degrees .. she called in .. she has to go to the beach ( lovely weekend ) her friends place at the beach had the water lines burst due to freezing .. yeah I told her to come get her last check.. it was ready and waiting ...

            let the puppy go.. let him stay under the porch begging for scraps.

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            • Ratchet2501
              Trusted Tech

              Site Contributor
              100+ Posts
              • Mar 2017
              • 206

              #7
              Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

              I hear Brisbane is a pretty cool place

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              • roho
                Senior Tech

                500+ Posts
                • Mar 2009
                • 844

                #8
                Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

                While working on a machine at a customers place I heard a guy call saying he wouldn't be in that day as he lost his shoes. When the manager hung up, speechless, I said "you should have asked how he got home?"

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                • Iowatech
                  Not a service manager

                  2,500+ Posts
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 3933

                  #9
                  Re: The best / worst excuse for not turning up to work

                  This is something I may have observed while probably in the Army Reserve, but have a management person drive out there and take a look. And tell the person that is making that claim that's about to happen, too. If the person is really locked in, the management person can cut them some slack on the spot, and call a locksmith as well. Or if the excuse is obviously fiction, the excuse maker can be canned without further review.
                  Have the management person driving to that place take a company vehicle to make it look more official. For what it is worth, I probably drove a humvee when I did this.

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