From a recent survey conducted by www.AdminJobs.ie of over 6,500 Irish Office professionals, we asked for the most inventive excuses ever used or heard of for missing work. We loved all the responses. The Irish certainly haven’t lost the gift of the gab!
We have compiled a list of top 20 inventive excuses used by Irish workers, although many more were just as hilarious. Animals featured quite heavily as a popular scapegoat along with apartment floods and getting locked into your bathroom/house. Read our list of favourites….
“My mother’s house burnt down…”
“I’ve got locked in the apartment and had no keys to get out until my boyfriend came back from work.”
“The dog followed me to work so I had to take him back home, that’s why I’m late”
“I can’t come in because I had a dream that I will be hit by a truck today.”
“I had to take the cat to the vet because it got drunk on the beer that had been left out in the garden to kill slugs”
“Bord Gas was doing roadworks outside my house so they told me I had to stay in for the day in case they needed anything”
“Missed the ferry from Achill Island to the Mainland. (There is a Bridge)
“There was a rat in the hall and I was too afraid to leave for fear it would attack me (true story!)”
“I am going to be late due to a wheel of an airplane fell on to my roof, and I am waiting for someone from Dublin airport to come out and collect it.”
“ I can’t come in to work today because I have stood on my glasses and can’t see.”
“ My rabbit has ran off and I have to find him”
“I can’t come in as I got in to an argument with the traffic warden who was
ticketing my car and I am currently in a cell in the police station.”
“Someone broke into my house and I was too afraid to move out of the bed until someone else got up before me to make sure that they were really gone.!!”
“A bird shited on me on the way to work, and I had to go back home, so there was no point to come to work because I would be so late back.”
“I woke up and thought it was Saturday until 3pm”
“My cat pissed on top of me while I was having breakfast”
“My bag got stolen on my way to work, I need to go to the Gardai station and report it, wont be in for the day due to shock of incident.”
“I have head lice…!!!”
“I really want to come to work but my headache is making my feet act funny and I fall over when I try to stand, plus I have to clean up the vomit first and that will take a while”
“My budgie has cancer”
