Why I was late"On the way to the station, I got hit by a bat, it almost took my head clean off. Then the machine would not accept my ticket and the guy at the gate didn't think I looked like the photo on my travel card. So I had to go home and get my passport.
Then the train was 45 minutes late to the station because of the dangerous badger threat at Carpenters Park.
When I was on the train it took and hour and a half to get past the biscuit factory because the driver was really fat.
Then there was a delay stopping at the station because the train in front had heard we were coming and decided to play a practical joke with a rubber shoe on the track.
That is why I couldn't get here on time today."
What's your best excuse?
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chthonic, Thu 28 Jun 2007, 10:36)
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Sick leave pay policyMy GF used to work for a franchise of Shittylink couriers who had a very odd policy on pay for sick leave.
If you were sick they didn't pay you the first day, this was their way of weeding out the people blagging a single day off.
However if you were off for 2 or more days you must actually be sick so then the government pay scheme kicked in and you would get statutory sick pay.
SO, if the GF ever skived a day off she'd have to make it 2 days. On one occasion she went back to work and was asked by her boss why she had been off for 2 days....
She replied "Well, I really only wanted Monday off but had to take Tuesday off to make sure I got paid"... she put her notice in the following week and we moved to Devon.
(, Fri 29 Jun 2007, 12:41, Reply)
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