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MindPilot

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9. Few years ago a co-worker was dying of AIDS

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 02:15 PM

Oct 2016

He would show up when he could but after a while, "I'm dying of AIDS" just got to be timeworn. So it became a game to think up the most absurd excuses possible, but none of us ever thought of "duck bite".

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Study reveals 14 craziest excuses for calling in sick to work [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP

A duck bit me. underpants Oct 2016 #1

Don't laugh--that's a serious mallardy. Orrex Oct 2016 #2

Nope! Just call in a quack doctor. longship Oct 2016 #3

I'm down with that. nt pinboy3niner Oct 2016 #6

Afflack will cover the bill. nt MindPilot Oct 2016 #7

Oh! underpants Oct 2016 #5

My roots were showing, and I had to keep my hair appointment because I looked like a mess. LeftInTX Oct 2016 #4

I've never really understood the whole lying about being sick thing Massacure Oct 2016 #8

Few years ago a co-worker was dying of AIDS MindPilot Oct 2016 #9

I have received some real inventive ones from our employees over the years. Glassunion Oct 2016 #10

"I ate cat food instead of tuna and am deathly ill." Behind the Aegis Oct 2016 #11