Nobody buys this excuse. You miss your deadlines attracting the ire of your boss. Here are 10 excuses - five smart and five not-so-smarts-to help you look good:
Smart excuses
- Earn it: Come early to work or stay late for a week or two and negotiate a day off. Really work when you are in office and honestly take off.
- Playing golf: For this you must be doing a job that requires you to meet and court clients. Meet the client; just don’t say you did.
- Doctor’s appointment: This excuse gets you a half-day off. Make the appointment in the morning or late in the day, say around 3 pm. You can leave office at 2-30 pm and reach home by 4 pm or so. Still better, you fix the appointment for Friday; you can have a good week-end.
- Cramps: Who can argue? It is such an embarrassing situation that none will challenge it. If you are a man don’t use it, as it doesn’t work.
- Working from home: It works well, if your company allows it. Of course, you have to do some work. At least you will have a shortened day. You save on commuting time.
- Death in family: Don’t use this if there is no death. Your employer will trust you no more if you have lied.
- Too sleep: Take this excuse if you have taken Tylenol 3 with codeine instead of vitamin tablet by mistake.
- Car stuck in the garage because of power failure: No one will buy this excuse. You should know that there is a pull chain on the garage to be used in such a situation.
- Can’t find the polling booth: By trying this excuse are you trying to fool anybody other than yourself? Nobody believes you if you can’t locate your polling booth the entire day.
- Personal emergency: A vague excuse; it could mean anything from fatigue to an appointment with a hairdresser. It rarely works.
