You know when you've had a night on the town and you wake up with a crazy hangover and freak out you have to go to work? We've all been there - but most of us check it's not actually Monday and it's still Sunday. We don't text in to the boss with a sad excuse about why we can't come in...on a Sunday.
Well, Glaswegian lad Mark McLelland did. He texted his boss asking if he could take a day off from his landscaping job because he had the "runs".
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He was so out of it (read: probably still drunk) that he thought it was early on Monday morning.
And his boss Greig's answer is savage and hilarious.
He said: "1 - you need to come up with a better excuse than the runs, that's the worst ever. 2 - its Sunday ya fuckin weapon".
Two very good points, if you ask me.
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The twenty-year-old tweeted a screenshot: "When you wake up thinking it's Monday morning and text your gaffer wanting a day off."
It got over 19,000 likes and over 50,000 retweets. And Mark got to stay in bed.
National Sickie Day
Poor Mark - today is ironically actually National Sickie Day. It falls on the first Monday of February every year and 350,000 people annually call in sick on this day. Wow. It's the worst day of the year for people not showing up to work.
There's some outrageous excuses out there according to employment law experts ELAS which has compiled a list of the very worst from last year.
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Including someone actually told their work they had to organise a birthday party for their dog (just why), while another said their only pair of work trousers was in the wash.
Others claimed they couldn't come into the office because they were too drunk to drive (yeah, probably shouldn't then) or they had been arrested. If I had been arrested, for one I wouldn't be using my one phone call to talk to my boss, and secondly, wouldn't tell my work.
I'd probably go with something a little more innocuous, like, 'oh I can't come into work because I have the runs' but then look where that got out pal Mark, eh?
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Words Laura Hamiliton
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