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I am over anyone giving any sort of excuse for anything....if it's not done, just say so, don't tell me why.

So what are the best and worst excuses that you have used or heard used?
 

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Speaking of cats: one bloke at work reckons he had to take a day off because his cat was having kittens.

I don't even bother making up interesting excuses anymore, just put on the form "sick".
 
When I was younger at school, if I couldn't be bothered doing an assignment, I would write a paragraph or two and print the first line in black, then the 2nd line in a dark shade of grey, then the 3rd line in a lighter shade of grey and so on. Also a bit of editing in paint helped.

I could then show it to the teacher and give them a real long story about how I stayed up all night doing it and when I went to print it out, my ink ran out and I would hand it in when I buy new ink.

Also, kept a disk that didn't work so if we had to submit work on disk, I could just take that disk and then act all dissapointed that the disk didn't work and then say that I luckily have a copy at home so I can bring it on a new disk tomorrow.
 
Originally posted by Kenny_01
When I was younger at school, if I couldn't be bothered doing an assignment, I would write a paragraph or two and print the first line in black, then the 2nd line in a dark shade of grey, then the 3rd line in a lighter shade of grey and so on. Also a bit of editing in paint helped.

I could then show it to the teacher and give them a real long story about how I stayed up all night doing it and when I went to print it out, my ink ran out and I would hand it in when I buy new ink.

Also, kept a disk that didn't work so if we had to submit work on disk, I could just take that disk and then act all dissapointed that the disk didn't work and then say that I luckily have a copy at home so I can bring it on a new disk tomorrow.
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I'm not surprised at any of that mate, I wouldn't expect anything less from the worlds best avoider of work.
 
I'm sick of trying to make up excuses for work. Honesty is the best policy, if they don't like it, sack me.
 
Originally posted by Kenny_01
When I was younger at school, if I couldn't be bothered doing an assignment, I would write a paragraph or two and print the first line in black, then the 2nd line in a dark shade of grey, then the 3rd line in a lighter shade of grey and so on. Also a bit of editing in paint helped.

I could then show it to the teacher and give them a real long story about how I stayed up all night doing it and when I went to print it out, my ink ran out and I would hand it in when I buy new ink.

Also, kept a disk that didn't work so if we had to submit work on disk, I could just take that disk and then act all dissapointed that the disk didn't work and then say that I luckily have a copy at home so I can bring it on a new disk tomorrow.
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these are gold, do they actually work?
 
Originally posted by PrideofSA
these are gold, do they actually work?
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Yeah if your convincing enough and probably wouldn't work more than once with the same teacher :)

I gotta admit that I always end up making excuses for handing in work late.

At uni last year, we had to email our work to the tutor, and I hadn't done it, so I purposely mis-typed his email when sending it and sent an attachment of a document which was blank. Then the following week, in our tutorial, I had to check my email and say I got one of those email errors which also happens to show the date I tried to send my work and the filename I tried to attach (he doesn't know it was blank). I had also completed my work done by that stage so I said I've definitely done it and showed him my work, which I had copied to the uni computers. I also had to change the date of my computer back to the previous week when I saved my work, so it would say it was last edited before the actual due date. Showed him that also, to convince him.

They all worked, but in hindsight, pretty stupid things to do. Would have been better off doing them on time.
 
A bloke at work just had a month off with conjunctavitis! I then had it and had 3 days off...How he prolonged it for a month is beyond me!!


The migraine headache and diarrhea are good exuses for when you chuck a sickie!
 
I tend to go into a bit of detail when making up excuses, not for work, just in general. Problem is too much detail, my stories end up a bit convoluted and memorable, when all you really want is for whoever to forget that you needed an excuse anyway. Haven't been busted on anything yet, though. I think.
 
Originally posted by Kenny_01
Yeah if your convincing enough and probably wouldn't work more than once with the same teacher :)

I gotta admit that I always end up making excuses for handing in work late.

At uni last year, we had to email our work to the tutor, and I hadn't done it, so I purposely mis-typed his email when sending it and sent an attachment of a document which was blank. Then the following week, in our tutorial, I had to check my email and say I got one of those email errors which also happens to show the date I tried to send my work and the filename I tried to attach (he doesn't know it was blank). I had also completed my work done by that stage so I said I've definitely done it and showed him my work, which I had copied to the uni computers. I also had to change the date of my computer back to the previous week when I saved my work, so it would say it was last edited before the actual due date. Showed him that also, to convince him.

They all worked, but in hindsight, pretty stupid things to do. Would have been better off doing them on time.
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That's Class! :D

If only your mind could be used for good and not evil
 

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I borke up with a girl and I claimed I had "a busy year this year with tennis commitments!". Bloody lame!

I didn't hand in an assignment once because I was "bashed" in Freo. Is pent the whole excuse meeting and the resting of the week holding my badly injured arm!!!

So lame, best tell the truth but at the time it seemed so important!
 
along similar lines to hit and rum's post, i remember a bloke who got out of handing in his third year final architecture project in on time when he came into uni with a cast on his leg claiming it was broken.
he and a mate stayed up all night trying to get the project finished when this piece of inspiration hit him and he plaster casted up the leg!
he kept the cast on and used crutches well into january and ended up getting special consideration.
 
The girls here would know what I'm talking about ;)

Whenever I had P.E on a 38 degree day (or when I just couldn't be bothered) I would just go up to the male teacher and say that I had period pain.
Male teacher's have no idea, so I would get to spend the lesson kicking back under a tree whilst everyone else was running laps of the footy oval :D
 
Originally posted by Beffery
The girls here would know what I'm talking about ;)

Whenever I had P.E on a 38 degree day (or when I just couldn't be bothered) I would just go up to the male teacher and say that I had period pain.
Male teacher's have no idea, so I would get to spend the lesson kicking back under a tree whilst everyone else was running laps of the footy oval :D
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I could never understand y some chicks would get out of doing the best lesson of the day.

PE rocked, much more fun than sitting around a tree.
 

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Originally posted by Beffery
The girls here would know what I'm talking about ;)
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Why would the guys not know? We may not have experienced it, doesn't mean we don't know anything about it. :)
 
Originally posted by Kenny_01
Yeah if your convincing enough and probably wouldn't work more than once with the same teacher :)

I gotta admit that I always end up making excuses for handing in work late.

At uni last year, we had to email our work to the tutor, and I hadn't done it, so I purposely mis-typed his email when sending it and sent an attachment of a document which was blank. Then the following week, in our tutorial, I had to check my email and say I got one of those email errors which also happens to show the date I tried to send my work and the filename I tried to attach (he doesn't know it was blank). I had also completed my work done by that stage so I said I've definitely done it and showed him my work, which I had copied to the uni computers. I also had to change the date of my computer back to the previous week when I saved my work, so it would say it was last edited before the actual due date. Showed him that also, to convince him.

They all worked, but in hindsight, pretty stupid things to do. Would have been better off doing them on time.
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And when you had to include links in your bibliography, I just put in fake IP addresses that say the server is down :D and not the real IP of the cut n paste job :eek:
 
Originally posted by Beffery
The girls here would know what I'm talking about ;)

Whenever I had P.E on a 38 degree day (or when I just couldn't be bothered) I would just go up to the male teacher and say that I had period pain.
Male teacher's have no idea, so I would get to spend the lesson kicking back under a tree whilst everyone else was running laps of the footy oval :D
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oh, that never failed!
i also got me a crazy wrist... the bone sorta looks like it sticks out of my skin.. trip over during PE, scream in pain, got to sit under the tree, with ice :p
 

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