CHICAGO, Illinois — The oddest excuses U.S. workers have given for missing work include getting stuck in a blood pressure machine and accidentally boarding a plane, a survey found.
CareerBuilder, a Chicago-based jobs website, said its annual survey of workers and hiring managers found the strangest excuses given to bosses for missing work include having just put a casserole in the oven, plastic surgery requiring extra “tweaking,” a broken ankle resulting from a woman’s legs falling asleep while she was sitting on the toilet and still having money left over to gamble on the Monday following a weekend at the casino.
