The kids who claimed with a straight face that the dog ate their homework are now the adults getting irrevocably stuck in the blood pressure machine. Jeff Nowak of Franczek Radelet writes about the more outrageous excuses employees use for calling in sick.
The reasons, compiled from a CareerBuilder survey, include putting a casserole in the oven, plastic surgery that needs some “tweaking” and accidentally getting on a plane among the most ridiculous excuses for not coming to work. The results also indicated that 28 percent of employees called in sick to work when they just weren’t feeling well, down from 32 percent the year before. However, for those that are faking it, one in four employers have caught them via social media, and one in five have fired an employee for calling in sick with a fake excuse, according to the results.
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