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well , i though we should have an post like this , with excuses to work from our employee.
ADD any if you have some

- i have to work the other job ( than on his cell ,answers his son :))
- my belly hurts (7am)
- i puke continuously (around 7.30am one morning)
- my car doesn`t start
- my car battery is down
- my car got towed
- i have flu ( almost 2 weeks straight)
- i am sick
- i got dehydrated
- i got in a fight with my bfriend
- i have to take my grandma to the hospital (all day long for 2 mondays)
- my girl got into an accident
- my girl is crying
- i feel dizzy
- the doctor said i can`t stay in the heat (tell your doctor to pay your bills!)
- i have fever

so far every new employee is punctual i the first month , after that he get`s sick 1-3 days a month , than the number of sick days per month start sky rocket , that you may think the guy is dieing , and he is so sick that his not able to answer his own cellphone.

what excuses you guys hear from your employee ?
 
I had someone leave my job about 2 weeks ago half way through the day. The excuse? They ate a bunch of almonds, and one is now stuck in their rectum.

Don't know how, didn't even ask.

This same person called out several days last year due to, and I quote, these are her words "a 7 year old baby is in my uterus".

I used to work with a guy who always had to leave early to "play baseball". The in the winter it was the same thing, but "bowling league".
 
My excuse was: I'll be in a coma and life support for 4 months :laughing:

It really happened to me, I have medical records if they needed proof haha.

All joking aside, someone I used to know very very closely. (Was a female an lived with me, non related) you do the math.

Well she got sick one day and called out. However she scanned the sick note. Since it was electronically made.

Well she scanned it, then on Windows Paint, she would just change the date and call out whenever she felt like it. She had the doctors note. So questions legally could not be asked.

Dr. & patient confidentiality.
 
I will say many so called excuses can be legitimate reasons of why someone can't work. It is very easy to jump to conclusions without knowing even the slightest bit of someone's story, take the time to figure that out before jumping straight to assuming someone is skipping out on work. And dehydrated as an excuse? Make them work through it until they heat stroke and see where you stand then. I would also recommend thinking about a possible customer coming across this post.
 
I need time off to go to grammar school so I can teach my boss how to spell. Im the MAN
 
I understand your frustration, and yes a lot of call ins are pure nonsense...

But this is also a business. Dealing with employees is part of it. You will NEVER find people are dedicated to your business as you are.

You need to have a system for call ins.. what is an excused absence and what is not excused... after so many unexcused there is disciplinary action, up to termination.

If you have employees, you will have call ins. I used to work big retail as a supervisor and it was just part of the job. I even called in once in a while, but never enough to get in actual trouble. There were clear cut rules for how many call ins were allowed, when they rolled off, and how many would get you in real trouble.

What type of system do you have for call ins? Are there repurcussions for call ins without a doctors note, ect.? If not, that is your fault. You have a non existent system to deal with this.

If you want some details about how I dealt with this in retail, PM me. It was a really excellent system that flushed out bad and lazy employees but allowed good employees time off and call ins as needed within the needs of the business.
 
VP Mark said:
I understand your frustration, and yes a lot of call ins are pure nonsense...

But this is also a business. Dealing with employees is part of it. You will NEVER find people are dedicated to your business as you are.

You need to have a system for call ins.. what is an excused absence and what is not excused... after so many unexcused there is disciplinary action, up to termination.

If you have employees, you will have call ins. I used to work big retail as a supervisor and it was just part of the job. I even called in once in a while, but never enough to get in actual trouble. There were clear cut rules for how many call ins were allowed, when they rolled off, and how many would get you in real trouble.

What type of system do you have for call ins? Are there repurcussions for call ins without a doctors note, ect.? If not, that is your fault. You have a non existent system to deal with this.

If you want some details about how I dealt with this in retail, PM me. It was a really excellent system that flushed out bad and lazy employees but allowed good employees time off and call ins as needed within the needs of the business.
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This is a great line. As tough as it is, before blaming your employees following skills take a look at your leadership and management skills. Take care of your people and they will take care of you.
 
Hey, I've actually used many of those excuses! When I was in law enforcement we had a policy, no more than 6 sick days, no more than 2 consecutive days without a note. Sounds like a great policy, until that guy that is sick but not sick enough to get a hospital trip it's your backup. Or they come in with a fever, now your whole shift is sick. I have a bad back, there were times it took me 30 seconds to stand up, do you want me as your backup? Now add that to a heart condition and you bet I get sick. I average 2 weeks a year in the hospital. You would never guess I'm that sick at 37 and workout 4 days a week. So keep that in mind when you think someone is just blowing off. You may not know what is really going on inside someone.

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Well earlier in my life I had jobs I despised. So I would call in sick very often because some days I just did not want to go there for any reason. If you have employes that keep calling in sick, I would say there is a very good chance they hate their job and they should find something else.

When I started my company 7 years ago, I was put in a situation where if I wasn't there not only the activity could not happen but I might loose customers. In 7 years I took 3 days off and the reason I did was that I had to get to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. I took the time to go on my website and made a post explaining I would be in the hospital so no activity would take place for a certain amount of time and that I would inform everyone when we were back on Schedule. So that worked out ok.

If these were my employes, I would put a rule down that no unjustified absence would be tolerated. There are very few situations where someone cannot work. If you only have 1 employe you are dependant on that person and if he/she cannot honor it's contract to you I would search for someone else. I am sure you are in the same situation I was where you simply cannot take an unscheduled day off, so if that is the case your employes should be in roughly the same situation for a very small operation like the ones détailers have.
 
Now that I Detail. I prepare the day or two before. I make sure everything is ready to go. I then give the customer a call the day before, to confirm the appointment.

I don't do it because it's just my job. It is something I do, and it is a part of me, like my signature. So I make sure everything is up to par. Before, during and after.

Luckily my recent customers have all been honest and I got paid for the job that I did and what we agreed to.

I'm sure that I'll eventually run into the rude customer. (I'm sure some of you full timers even part timers have before)

I am just taking it one day at a time. Plus School, can't wait till I have my own garage to set up shop. Thanks to AGO I learned about HOA

:xyxthumbs:

Art
 
I'm not the business owner but I am a supervisor for a U.S. based and owned manufacturing company. Over the years I've been there we've had a guy have a grandmother that died 6 times, a woman that called in for her mother's funeral only to have another coworker run into the "dead" mom at the mall during lunch hour. We had a woman that obviously had a hypochondria and OCD disorder since her ailments over time turned out to be alphabetical in order. I got more but the wife is paging me...
 
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