MORE Stunning Employee Blunders…
In some more great stories from the water cooler, we present a few more outrageous excuses that employees have given their HR departments as reasons for missing work. Enjoy these stories and let us know if you have personally heard some outrageous excuses yourself!
Some readers at HRBlunder’s Web site have shared some pretty funny stories of employees of theirs who have been caught in blatant lies as their reasons for missing work. The first one is from a reader named “Maria” who reported that one of their employees called in sick, but was featured on the front page of their local newspaper rafting down a local river. Though not an act that would show up during a criminal background check, she was still fired…
An anonymous reader commented on an employee of theirs who got the day off because he said his only sibling had died. About a month later, the employee’s brother called work because he could not get in touch with the employee on his cell phone. Talk about getting contacted from “the great beyond”! Not exactly the kind of lie that helps someone during an employment background screening check after they’ve burned their bridges and have been fired.
A reader in Vermont commented that one of their employees said that he was locked in a gas station bathroom for most of the day and no one heard his cries for help from within the locked room. The HR department staff consulted each other and decided that they did not believe him and made him take one of his personal days off instead of allowing him to have an excused sick day.
A couple of funny short stories include one employee who called often with the craziest stories and excuses. Better than the tallest of tales, this one was the best that the Hiring Manager could recall: his car was eaten by a dinosaur! Another HR professional reported that one of their employees called and said he had been involved in a police chase in which his wallet was lost. He was waiting for the police to wire him some money and could not cone in that day. A criminal background check would surely reveal that no chase had ever taken place.
The final story is perhaps the best one of all. A department manager sent one of the company’s employees out to run an errand. He did not return for three days! When questioned about his whereabouts during the prior three days, he answered that he had fallen into a manhole and nobody heard him screaming for help. When the manager asked which manhole and went out to look at it, she discovered that it was in the middle of traffic in a busy area where he could not have possibly fallen in.
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