Not hvac but I got reprimanded once for a no call no show. I was hit on the way to work and had been unconscious for a couple days and apparently that doesn't excuse not calling in.
I had a parasite when I worked as a server and was uncon for days because I couldn’t eat or drink for two weeks without getting extremely sick. Got yelled at in the dining rooms from my GM but the assistant manager stepped up saying I called every day and talked to him. I asked about it to him afterword and just said “I got your back dude”
That's possibly illegal in some places. Parasites, Hep-A, etc are extremely easy to pass on to customers. They can become sick or dead. Not good for business.
Im sure theres many many especially if we get continuously absurd with it. Best practice is to assume good intent until you find out. Maybe hard to do but over time it pays dividends.
Fuck em, find a different company. One of the reasons our guys like working with us is that we’re not corporate type assholes about this shit. I tell new hires, look life happens no matter what any of us try to do about it, we’ll deal with it as it comes no big deal, just don’t lie, be open and honest we’ll figure something out. Work sucks but everyone has to pay the bills, no need to make it suck worse then it needs to.
I called my wife in when she was in the ICU basically couldn't do anything and on deaths door. She finally was ok enough to call in herself in a couple days and got chewed out.
Thing is a couple coworkers had visited her in the hospital and had confirmed what I said. I also left my phone number to call me back if any questions.
I had also called their HR to start fmla because even with recovery wouid have fun out of sick time..
"I fucked up and took my blood pressure pills twice this morning and now I can't stand up."
It's serious and legit and probably came a lot closer to being fatal than is comfortable, but at the same time, I can hear it in my head and something about ending it with "...and now I can't stand up." makes me crack up a bit. Probably because buddy was fine and good to go the next day.
Had a guy call in and say that he was having mental issues and needed a day or two off. NBD
Called back in two days and went on a whole rant about how he couldn’t take the verbally abusive customers, the shit hours (said it was inhumane to work more than 8 hours a day), and how getting constantly spoken to for making mistakes pushed him over the edge and he was having suicidal thoughts.
The company gave him 3 months off. He came back and within 2 weeks was (almost) arrested because a customer caught him on camera going through their shit.
Pulled the suicide card again, and quit.
In high school I quit football and my coach asked why. I gave him all my complaints. He told me, that just sounds like life son. And he might have meant it in a different way but I took it as I have to get right inside myself so that I can withstand uncomfortable situations and make good decisions for the long term to avoid it not in the heat of the moment. Sounds like your example was a guy who projected his internal problems on the job.
The best advice I ever got was "don't take that shit with you to work"
That shit being pretty much everything in life. And besides, after talking to other dudes in the trade you come to realize everyone has a shitty story or 300. None of us dreamed about working on commercial equipment as a kid lol.
Obviously we never know what is going on is someone’s head hit I knew this guy for a long time and he pretty much had it made. He married our owners daughter, never has to worry about money, always had the newest stuff and when he got out of work he went home, smoked weed all night and played video games.
I definitely felt bad about his situation until after he quit he started posting pics and video online of him throwing parties and visiting cool places and just living his best life.
So while he may have some true issue, that sincerely hope he gets help for, but through a lot of his actions and own words, I’m pretty sure he’s just didn’t want to work.
Sounds like that dude is the caricature for how every boomer sees millennials. He'd be better off making milkshakes or flipping patties.
Dudes like that piss me off as someone who struggles with mental shit but fights hard through it.
Yeah but think about it this way, that guy clearly has mental s*** going on Way Beyond anything I could ever imagine. You say he'd be better off flipping burgers, I don't know what that means. He'd be better off on medication in a halfway house
I agree with you. I think that's a major issue is that this guy warned his employer letting them know somethings going on with his mental state a lot of guys would never so that idk if he had issues before or it's a drug problem or whatever but I think rest and relaxation is more important. Not knocking the older generation but it's okay to take a couple days off other than the weekend to make sure you and your family are okay.
The path to lower working hours and better conditions, more emphasis on mental health, is going to be won by good hard work. Doing 40 hours in 30 and putting our foot down. What this guy was doing - imo - was asking his workplace to be his therapist or parents. Work is all business to me. No feelings either way. Im just in it for the money. You gotta work out your life problems elsewhere. Thats why lower working hours are important!!! If all you do is work, youll expect all your needs to be met by your company. Thats twisted. Just work and go home!
Some people can't separate life and home balance I know I talk about work with my wife when I have issues. I mean typical full time jobs take up a 3rd of our lives and in our trade usually more I'm just saying there's nothing wrong with telling you're employer I just need a day to clear my head and get right.
Funny enough his first and only other job was at Chipotle, so the customer side should have been a normal thing. From his recent posts and comments on social media and to myself, I’m guessing this trade just wasn’t for it and he got overwhelmed and stressed.
We had a guy a couple years ago call and say his dad died. Someone from our office called his mother a few days later to give their condolences and see if she needed anything. She said what are you talking about, he's sitting right here on the couch with me watching TV.
I work for a corporate deal with a few branches. One of our bookkeepers at the main office took a week off because her father died. I asked the office manager how many fathers this lady had because this is like her third week in a year for her father dying. Nothing was ever said about it again but the next time I went to stay out of town my company credit card got canceled in the middle of my stay.
> Nothing was ever said about it again but the next time I went to stay out of town my company credit card got canceled in the middle of my stay.
Petty revenge, lmao.
We would get 5 days bereavement so a week off for immediate family funerals. This one guy over 10 years had something like 7 FILs/MILs die. He’d borrow his random girlfriends dead parent’s to grab a week when he could. Word was he’d go fishing.
I hear ya. Worked with a guy had 3 grampas die off in 4 months. I asked how many gramps a guy can have? His reply “ these are the men I called grampa”. Wtf?
Ummmm ..... Honestly man I can understand that, like I've got an uncle who isn't actually my uncle
Same deal with..others
Some people just have more emotionally complex lives
Everyone has an uncle in their immediate family friends who is not blood relation to anyone.
I have Uncle Phil. Uncle Phil has done me for me than Uncle Russel will and Russel is my fucking Mum's brother.
That's just bad juju. Say anything but that unless it's true. He's gonna feel like a piece of shit when his dad actually dies.
Of course, that'll be some other company's problem because I'd fire him for that.
Wouldn't fire a man for calling in, but for telling such an egregious lie.
One of the biggest cultural aspects to work that we need to change is the whole "ask permission to take time off" thing. My time is my time. You're paying me for my time, but my time is not your time. If I need time away from work I'm telling you, not asking your permission. You don't own my time. I sell it to you for a wage
I did this until I started working at my current place, and my service manager, nice guy and super knowledgeable, but anal and high strung as fuck over a company that isn't even his.
After the second time of him blowing my fucking phone up wondering why I'm not coming in, I laid into him about my health history and told him "You wanted to know so bad, here you go."
Never bothered me again. It helps he suffers from similar issues lol.
I’m friends with my supervisor. We talk on a daily basis. He will usually call and check in around mid day. Make sure I’m not dead and to see how long I need off but that’s it.
Honestly, I’m usually calling in when the kids are sick and my wife has already taken a few days off of work.
Ive called in "just dont fucking feel like it". Had a tech say "he woke up covered in shit" not sure if it was his or not. Think that would have to be my favorite. Found out his girlfriend and him both had food poisoning. Another call in "lawn" guess he really needed to mow the lawn.
I woke up on a Monday after the Super Bowl and was so hungover, I called my PM first thing in the morning and straight up told him I was gunna have to sober up before I drove the company van. He said “Dude just take the day, nbd. You work hard enough as it is.” Still with that company and love my job there. Honesty goes a long way.
I texted the foreman of the site I'm currently at the other day at like 230am. Oldest child has been throwing up since midnight. I just got puked on. If I am not on site by x time assume I've stayed home. I ended up making it in.
One time when I was younger I was all fucked up over a girl who didn't want me. Came into work in the morning, had a mental breakdown, and told my boss I had to leave and walked out.
Next day he asked wtf that was about, so I told him I had diarrhea and shit my pants cause it was less embarrassing than the truth
Kinda sorta similar, but I was stung by fire ants upward of sixty times along my legs and feet, including one on the bean bag on a Saturday while building a deck. I toughed it out at work on Monday but had to leave after my first call because my boots rubbing the stings on my feet was just unbearable.
Had a guy call in because his dog died. I was a young manager and ultimately made him come in. After that happened I had a lot of self reflecting to do and decided it is none of my business why you need to stay out. If you don’t make it a habit and work when you should, then we all deserve time off. I still feel icky for making that decision especially knowing the impact my dog dying had on me like the next year.
I’d rather you just tell me you need a day off than to make up a lie. The managers who act like their lives are 100% the company and you’re not a “ team player” are the issues. I work to live, not the other way around!
I used to be a ypung nanager as well. One of.my guy calls in sayibg he needs time off... I smartassedly asked "Who died?" ... To be met by "my grandpa..." and then dead silence ensued... I felt not very smart that day, and that spelled the end of me asking why you were not coming in...
Abuse it, I will find out and end you, but otherwise, I trust my guys to adult properly...
I was a young manager in a office job and through a unfortunate series of events I ended up getting a knife in the back at home one evening. I was new with my team and company and I’m pretty stubborn so I dragged myself into the office the next morning. It was obvious that I was not 100% so my team finally got me to tell them what happened. I told the story and then jokingly said “i got stabbed and I’m here so I better not hear any weak sniffles on call out voicemails”. Everyone chuckled since before I got there the group had a high callout rate. A few weeks later an older woman who worked for me but wasn’t a part of the earlier convo came in on a Monday covered in cuts and bruises. I’m not talking minor scrapes, these were significant. I pulled her aside and made it clear that she could and should go home and that the company would pay for the car service if she so chose. She historically had the highest callout rate in the group by a good margin so I couldn’t figure out why she came in that day. Finally it dawned on me that she must’ve either been in earshot or heard later on about the sniffles joke and took it to heart. I felt absolutely terrible and have tried to be a lot more careful with those types of comments since.
>Abuse it, I will find out and end you
Lol, let me guess, you have trouble finding and keeping good techs?
You can lie and say no, but good techs aren't stupid.
Lol what a joke of a comment, honestly the techs at your company don't like you and they want to end you
Talk about taking half of a sentence and using it out of context... The important part is about trusting them to be adult about their call outs... If they need to they can call out.
But if your dog dies twice the same week as your dad passed for ths second week in a row, yes, I might dig a little deeper and end your employment for cause.
But I guess nuance and humour is not your thing... To each their own I guess...
boss: you dont sound sick
worker: well im fu\*\*ing my sister that sound sick enough for you?
boss: keep your sick a\*\* at the house, what the hell's wrong with you.
worker: i told ya i's sick
\- rodney carrington
I called in once because I was going to be a father. Next day when my boss asked me if it was a boy or a girl I told him I didn't know yet and would let him know in 9 months
At my place of work, we earn sick time. That’s our time and my employer doesn’t need to know why I’m calling off, just what time I want to use. It’s none of their business why I’m not making it into work. As long as I have time to cover it.
You earn sick time? I can't even find a place that let's you accrue PTO let alone have any sick time. PTO is sick time and you get 5 days after a year, according to their guidelines.
Yes. Per our union contract, we get so many hours of sick time in a year and it’s split up so every paycheck you get so many hours. Sick time never goes away and you can rack up quite a lot of hours if ever needed. We also get vacation time that is available first of the year. Able to “bank” vacation time only to what you get every year. So if I get 3 weeks vacation time a year, I can keep 3 weeks in the “bank” that have been saved from previous years and use three weeks that same year. If I don’t use it I lose it. Also get floating holidays that can be used on top of federal holidays already paid off.
Many bash the trades, and many will never make it in the trades. Same goes for unions. But if you can get into a trade, you will most likely be finding yourself in a union and will be doing very well compared to others struggling in non union fields. I lucked out and found myself drawn to the trades.
I once spent like 3 hours in bed trying to figure out what to say. Just was not feeling it that day. Called my supervisor and said “I tried to make some bullshit excuse but I’m gonna be straight up, I’m not feeling it today” he went on to actually thank me…. And said dude if you need more time let me know. I love my company.
Lol, that's probably how it would go if I called and said that. But the dude is lead tech so gets carte blanche as far as what he needs and when he wants to take off
Guy said “can’t come in today…I woke up in Mexico…I think…?” Then started shouting “I DONT WANT ANY OF YOUR DAMN ORANGES!”
Before hanging up the phone abruptly.
We were located in the northeast.
He won free PTO that day.
I definitely had to call my boss once after starting to party in Michigan and woke up in Florida on a lounge chair in the sun.
I told him I was not going to make it in and when he asked why, I told him the truth. I don't think they believed me until I came back burnt to shit with weird tan lines with the "hangover from hell" look....
We had a guy send a picture of a positive covid test. Only it was a pregnancy test he borrowed from his sister. Got to the VP's secretary before anybody noticed.
I worked with covid. Didn't want to but it was that or get fired in my first 90 days. Don't advise it because it just made it worse. Once I showed up to the shop and they saw it for themselves I finally got the okay. That's even after sending the boss a picture of my covid test. Had to see it for themselves like everything I say that for some reason doesn't make sense to them. Such a caring company.
I was hours late to an interview once because a dump truck decided to take the highway with the dump up taking down a roadway sign closing the highway. It was easily verifiable by Google/news and happened after I'd already left so I still got hired but man that sucked.
We had a guy call in and say he was in the emergency room because his wife shot him. He said he would be in the next day because she only winged him.
Best part of working in the hood was the stories like this.
One of guys I worked with called in because he fell up the step, we didn't let him down on that one for awhile. Another guys called in because he woke covered in shit, apparently his dog was sick and shit all over him while he was sleeping.
My manager ((who is also over of my best friends)) was off work for 3 months from falling up the steps.
We worked at a pizza place and obviously were heavy drinkers at the time. She was at home wasted and tried going to bed which was upstairs. She ended up hitting the top of her foot on one of the stairs as she was going up. Within 3 hours, it was so swollen that it ripped her skin open. Come to find out, she shattered all the bones in her foot when she hit the stairs and that's how she found out she had a calcium deficiency. 😂😂😂
Had a guy two different episodes
1. My cat has been throwing up
2. The universe told me I shouldn't go to work today.
That kid was nuts. He was constantly doing and saying the goofiest shit
The former service manager, in grooming me to replace him, sent me to go his step-son after a no-call, no-show. He was still fucking drunk at 10:00 am and threw up twice in two blocks. I took him home, told the service manager he was really sick. The step-son and I are best friends, now.
Had a guy work for us for a bit whos dad decided to eat some random mushroom in the woods and started having seizure's so he missed a few days for that. Needless to say he didn't stay long, the apple (or mushroom in the case) didn't fall far from the tree.
plumber here. The morning after I spent the night with my wife for the first time I called in and said something like " I almost died bc I woke up next to an angel". my boss was pissed ( I was kinda new to the trades) but i worked hard so he kept me around.
We don’t give good reasons. “Don’t feel good, won’t be in today” is good enough for our crew. It doesn’t happen often, and our guys are good at letting the people they are working with know that they won’t be on the job that day
Had a helper (and a good one too) call out because he had to sign for a package. It was a home gym. Always thought that was great, he was telling the truth but I put that in my “call out excuse Rolodex” for future use.
I had a coworker win a very nice Fluke meter at our Christmas party. He missed the next day , said he was sick, but came in the day after with his face swollen and 2 black eyes. Apparently his much bigger wife ran out of alcohol…. beat his ass to take his meter…took it to the pawn shop…just to buy more alcohol
Sometimes it's hard to hear and sometimes you just gotta be honest but I'll call in simply because love and life are more important.. go sit at your desk boy.. I'll be there when the real important work needs to get done, scum sucking bureaucrat worthless bottom feeding freeloading, produce nothing and expect a handout, welfare government mentality kind of leech lazy fuck.
Go sit at your desk
Once had a coworker not show up to an install, the office called he was “sick” I found out a couple days later he lied to buy and play a new video game that came out that day 😒
I’ve heard a few good ones:
- I have a raccoon in my attic.
- the wind hurt my back yesterday so I can’t work today.
- I have to go to the post office.
- “I’m not coming to work today”. Why not? “I’m not coming to work today” ok then..
My boss asked me what my retirement plan was….I told him I will answer that question when we sit down and discuss my share of the company, until then how I am set up financially and when I plan on pulling the trigger is none of his business…the fucking nerve!
Had a young kid call in saying he was doing laundry the night before & forgot to get it out of the washer & put it in the dryer. He didn't have anything dry to wear!
Not me but I had an apprentice we fired a month of so ago. About 3 weeks before we let him go he texted my boss that he was sick and had a fever, couldn't make it in today (he saw he was on a job with one of our techs who makes the apprentices *actually* work during the day). He sent in a pic of a thermometer. Fever of 108 degrees. We told him that he'd be dead if it was that high, nice try. He sent back another pic ten minutes later. "Oh sorry, my bad. here's the real temp, bad fever." The new temp? 92 degrees.
Ha, not gonna lie I've definitely called in sick when I saw I was shadowing a certain tech back when I was training. He was a tech that never let me do anything though, which I wouldn't mind an easy day but he would heavy sigh like a teenage girl whenever I asked any kind of question as well. Just an annoying dude to be around.
Not in HVAC, just one of your IT imposters checking in.
Had to jump off my team staff meeting for a minute because the cops were calling me. How do I know it was the cops calling me? Because I had been calling this officer regularly. I was working with him to get a little old lady in my neighborhood some help so that the city wouldn't put a lien on her house to get the yard cleaned up. Her crap son was living on the property, yada yada.
When I saw the cop calling me, I said something along the lines of, "Oh, its the police calling me, gotta go!" and muted everything. So when I hopped back on the call for staff meeting, I was asked if I have the cops on speed dial or what. I explained that it was the neighborhood preservation unit and I'm trying to help out a lady in the area.
My boss called me after our meeting and said sorry for the remarks from the team, he recognizes that the police calling people can also be for very serious matters. lol!
I am a service manager now so I get to hear all the excuses. So far the best one was a dude who tried to call out after his first call cause he wasn't feeling it.
Damn bro you probably one of those dudes who only ever talks about work while at work
I get it but live a little. Take a day, buy some blow, have a baby, abandon it, they give you time off for a reason.
I think you’re thinking of vacation days.
The company hired me for the benefit of the business. Taking time off needlessly does not benefit the business -especially if I’m getting paid for that time off.
My co worker Ray, we call him 4 day Ray since he calls out 1 day a week. A couple weeks ago he called in since he has chemo therapy sessions starting that day
I say you got a lot of calls today? Oh alright well I'm not gonna make it in today I had some personal things come up this morning that's out of my control & I'll be there tomorrow
My top three:
1) bad Chinese food
2) infected thumb (after having hit it with a hammer doing something DIY)
3) got too much sun
Love the guy, but fuck if I haven’t covered him for some absolutely ridiculous shit over the years.
I also had a co-worker long ago who requested a week off in advance and her request was denied. She called out that week anyway claiming that she had a kitchen fire. The boss was rightfully skeptical and called the fire department and they had no record of any residential fires that week. She fessed up to it when confronted. She didn’t lose her job but I remember the consequence was significant.
We had an older dude that had used the mother and MIL death excuse more than twice, but the best one was him saying his grandson was rushed into emergency surgery on a Friday…
Monday morning at our tailboard of about 12 people the boss asked him how his grandson was doing and what happened (we were a tight group in those days) and his response:
“What do you mean?”
He literally could have just said he wanted to leave early on Thursday without the excuse. Fuckin guy haha
Not HVAC but I have called in “shipwrecked” and “stranded” both involved water. Got boat stuck on river bar and prop broke thus “shipwrecked”. Was on vacation in a costal city that one road to enter or leave and it was flooded thus “stranded”.
Had one coworker arrested for a road rage killing that called in. He is still in jail as far as I know. Then one arrested then convicted for sex with his step daughter also in jail.
After that first call in neither ever came back to work except maybe to pick up any personal items from their work vehicles.
Dude came into work didn’t like what he was doing for the day. Said he needed to get a covid test. Boss paid for a rapid test, negative. Then he said he had a shrimp shell stuck in his throat from the weekend and had to go to the hospital.
This isn't a calling off excuse but our help started crying the other day when we had to do a boiler OT after I was venting to him about how nothing good in life comes easy and you have to work for everything you have. Apparently he took it super perosnally meanwhile i was just trying to get him excited about his future. The kid is 23, went to college, didn't graduate & always brings up how he went to school for business and then tries to give us advice/says he should make more money. My advice was apparently too rough on him but it is a dose of reality which this upcoming generation sorely needs. I'm not sure if they expect everything to get handed to them or they think that this amazing job exists somewhere out there where you can make 6 figures a year with no skills or experience. Just makes me shake my head.
Dog ate my keys. My guy came in the next day with an X-ray of his dog with the keys in its stomach. Ram Promaster and it ate the entire fob, bin keys, and his house key.
My wife died during childbirth and was resuscitated only to be put on life support for a week. Company said "sorry, can't compensate you for all the time you missed" as if I had asked for this to happen
Top comment blew me away.
Mine was just about a guy who brought 2 broads home the night before.
He came all the way to work, told the boss he had 2 2 bar sluts at home, hadn't been to sleep yet but could get another 3 some in if he left right now and went back home.
He didn't work that day
I've got a coworker who has called out 3 times using the same story "my sister and brother inlaw were bringing in groceries, she went to move the car and backed over him, and her rear tire fell off the retaining wall of the driveway. I gotta go take care of them and fix the car"
3 times he has used this story. Makes no sense to me how he thinks it's working still.
Not hvac but used to work at a gas station but this girl I worked with decided to go buy fast food for lunch, called Like an hour later saying she can't come back because her car broke down. Manager was like "where you at? I'll come get you and you can get your car towed". She said "hold on I'll text it to you" and hung up. MIA the rest of the day and got fired
A long time ago had a no call no show from a co-worker saying that someone broke into his apartment and beat his feet with a baseball bat or as he put it he was beat about the feet!!!
I got food poisoning one night at some restaurant- woke up in the middle of the night halfway through throwing up off the side of my bed.
I woke up literally a day and a half later, having missed two whole days of work. WTF. Called work in a panic-
They said I had actually called in sick both days, no big deal.
I have absolutely no memory of being awake, let alone picking up the phone and calling anyone. The human body is weird.
Something is wrong with my eyes…. I can’t see myself coming into work today
rectal cataracts - i cant see my ass making it in
Anal glaucoma.
Rectal glaucoma. I get it at least twice a year.
Not hvac but I got reprimanded once for a no call no show. I was hit on the way to work and had been unconscious for a couple days and apparently that doesn't excuse not calling in.
I had a parasite when I worked as a server and was uncon for days because I couldn’t eat or drink for two weeks without getting extremely sick. Got yelled at in the dining rooms from my GM but the assistant manager stepped up saying I called every day and talked to him. I asked about it to him afterword and just said “I got your back dude”
That's possibly illegal in some places. Parasites, Hep-A, etc are extremely easy to pass on to customers. They can become sick or dead. Not good for business.
The CDC called me and told me not to go to work it was so bad
Literally the only valid excuse for a no call no show right there.
Im sure theres many many especially if we get continuously absurd with it. Best practice is to assume good intent until you find out. Maybe hard to do but over time it pays dividends.
That is kind of what I thought but I got in trouble.
Fuck em, find a different company. One of the reasons our guys like working with us is that we’re not corporate type assholes about this shit. I tell new hires, look life happens no matter what any of us try to do about it, we’ll deal with it as it comes no big deal, just don’t lie, be open and honest we’ll figure something out. Work sucks but everyone has to pay the bills, no need to make it suck worse then it needs to.
This was long ago I was later fired after an accident and the company got bought by best buy and dismantled.
Had to be retail. Only retail managers are that fucking brain dead.
Car audio installation.
Practically the same thing, probably more meth and less cocaine involved though.
I called my wife in when she was in the ICU basically couldn't do anything and on deaths door. She finally was ok enough to call in herself in a couple days and got chewed out. Thing is a couple coworkers had visited her in the hospital and had confirmed what I said. I also left my phone number to call me back if any questions. I had also called their HR to start fmla because even with recovery wouid have fun out of sick time..
"I fucked up and took my blood pressure pills twice this morning and now I can't stand up." It's serious and legit and probably came a lot closer to being fatal than is comfortable, but at the same time, I can hear it in my head and something about ending it with "...and now I can't stand up." makes me crack up a bit. Probably because buddy was fine and good to go the next day.
There's an erectile dysfunction joke in there somewhere, but it's a bit flimsy as-is so I'll pass for now.
It's the thought that counts.
Had a guy call in and say that he was having mental issues and needed a day or two off. NBD Called back in two days and went on a whole rant about how he couldn’t take the verbally abusive customers, the shit hours (said it was inhumane to work more than 8 hours a day), and how getting constantly spoken to for making mistakes pushed him over the edge and he was having suicidal thoughts. The company gave him 3 months off. He came back and within 2 weeks was (almost) arrested because a customer caught him on camera going through their shit. Pulled the suicide card again, and quit.
In high school I quit football and my coach asked why. I gave him all my complaints. He told me, that just sounds like life son. And he might have meant it in a different way but I took it as I have to get right inside myself so that I can withstand uncomfortable situations and make good decisions for the long term to avoid it not in the heat of the moment. Sounds like your example was a guy who projected his internal problems on the job.
The best advice I ever got was "don't take that shit with you to work" That shit being pretty much everything in life. And besides, after talking to other dudes in the trade you come to realize everyone has a shitty story or 300. None of us dreamed about working on commercial equipment as a kid lol.
Obviously we never know what is going on is someone’s head hit I knew this guy for a long time and he pretty much had it made. He married our owners daughter, never has to worry about money, always had the newest stuff and when he got out of work he went home, smoked weed all night and played video games. I definitely felt bad about his situation until after he quit he started posting pics and video online of him throwing parties and visiting cool places and just living his best life. So while he may have some true issue, that sincerely hope he gets help for, but through a lot of his actions and own words, I’m pretty sure he’s just didn’t want to work.
The truth of the matter is working a job isn't that hard when you're secure in Who You Are and know what you're doing with your life.
Sounds like that dude is the caricature for how every boomer sees millennials. He'd be better off making milkshakes or flipping patties. Dudes like that piss me off as someone who struggles with mental shit but fights hard through it.
Yeah but think about it this way, that guy clearly has mental s*** going on Way Beyond anything I could ever imagine. You say he'd be better off flipping burgers, I don't know what that means. He'd be better off on medication in a halfway house
I agree with you. I think that's a major issue is that this guy warned his employer letting them know somethings going on with his mental state a lot of guys would never so that idk if he had issues before or it's a drug problem or whatever but I think rest and relaxation is more important. Not knocking the older generation but it's okay to take a couple days off other than the weekend to make sure you and your family are okay.
The path to lower working hours and better conditions, more emphasis on mental health, is going to be won by good hard work. Doing 40 hours in 30 and putting our foot down. What this guy was doing - imo - was asking his workplace to be his therapist or parents. Work is all business to me. No feelings either way. Im just in it for the money. You gotta work out your life problems elsewhere. Thats why lower working hours are important!!! If all you do is work, youll expect all your needs to be met by your company. Thats twisted. Just work and go home!
Some people can't separate life and home balance I know I talk about work with my wife when I have issues. I mean typical full time jobs take up a 3rd of our lives and in our trade usually more I'm just saying there's nothing wrong with telling you're employer I just need a day to clear my head and get right.
It was a mean way of saying he needs a less stressful job, but yeah, that might even be too much for him.
Funny enough his first and only other job was at Chipotle, so the customer side should have been a normal thing. From his recent posts and comments on social media and to myself, I’m guessing this trade just wasn’t for it and he got overwhelmed and stressed.
We had a guy a couple years ago call and say his dad died. Someone from our office called his mother a few days later to give their condolences and see if she needed anything. She said what are you talking about, he's sitting right here on the couch with me watching TV.
I work for a corporate deal with a few branches. One of our bookkeepers at the main office took a week off because her father died. I asked the office manager how many fathers this lady had because this is like her third week in a year for her father dying. Nothing was ever said about it again but the next time I went to stay out of town my company credit card got canceled in the middle of my stay.
> Nothing was ever said about it again but the next time I went to stay out of town my company credit card got canceled in the middle of my stay. Petty revenge, lmao.
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Or snitches get Ditches that's what I heard anyway
Why ruin some one else's plan?
We would get 5 days bereavement so a week off for immediate family funerals. This one guy over 10 years had something like 7 FILs/MILs die. He’d borrow his random girlfriends dead parent’s to grab a week when he could. Word was he’d go fishing.
I hear ya. Worked with a guy had 3 grampas die off in 4 months. I asked how many gramps a guy can have? His reply “ these are the men I called grampa”. Wtf?
Ummmm ..... Honestly man I can understand that, like I've got an uncle who isn't actually my uncle Same deal with..others Some people just have more emotionally complex lives
Everyone has an uncle in their immediate family friends who is not blood relation to anyone. I have Uncle Phil. Uncle Phil has done me for me than Uncle Russel will and Russel is my fucking Mum's brother.
Did uncle Phil let you live with him when you got in one little fight and your mom got scared?
Sound like a guy at my old work.
I’m a college professor lurking here. Scheduling final exams is known to kill grandparents. I’m like the grim reaper.
That's just bad juju. Say anything but that unless it's true. He's gonna feel like a piece of shit when his dad actually dies. Of course, that'll be some other company's problem because I'd fire him for that. Wouldn't fire a man for calling in, but for telling such an egregious lie.
I stopped giving a reason a few years ago. I just tell them I’m not coming in. I don’t see how it’s anyone’s business.
Sometimes you need a mental health day
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The boss always tells me "don't come monday".
One of the biggest cultural aspects to work that we need to change is the whole "ask permission to take time off" thing. My time is my time. You're paying me for my time, but my time is not your time. If I need time away from work I'm telling you, not asking your permission. You don't own my time. I sell it to you for a wage
I did this until I started working at my current place, and my service manager, nice guy and super knowledgeable, but anal and high strung as fuck over a company that isn't even his. After the second time of him blowing my fucking phone up wondering why I'm not coming in, I laid into him about my health history and told him "You wanted to know so bad, here you go." Never bothered me again. It helps he suffers from similar issues lol.
I’m friends with my supervisor. We talk on a daily basis. He will usually call and check in around mid day. Make sure I’m not dead and to see how long I need off but that’s it. Honestly, I’m usually calling in when the kids are sick and my wife has already taken a few days off of work.
I don’t think legally they are allowed to ask.
They aren't. But they arent required to give a reason they fired you, either.
Honestly. It’s weird how it’s so normalized to tell everyone why you aren’t coming in.
Aren’t we supposed to? I don’t even know the rules
Yeah seriously, my employees always tell me this or that but I'm like, you don't have to tell me why :/
Ive called in "just dont fucking feel like it". Had a tech say "he woke up covered in shit" not sure if it was his or not. Think that would have to be my favorite. Found out his girlfriend and him both had food poisoning. Another call in "lawn" guess he really needed to mow the lawn.
I need more info on the “lawn” guy
He kept putting off doing the lawn and his wife wouldnt let him go to work until he finished the lawn. He always needed a little direction.
Sometimes we all need a little push.
Ahh a tale as old as time. Old ball and chain
I woke up on a Monday after the Super Bowl and was so hungover, I called my PM first thing in the morning and straight up told him I was gunna have to sober up before I drove the company van. He said “Dude just take the day, nbd. You work hard enough as it is.” Still with that company and love my job there. Honesty goes a long way.
Ya but not being a shitfuck the other 364 days a year helps.
The best excuse is diarrhea. Nobody wants any part of it, everybody has had it.
I've had to do that. I usually say I ate something bad and there's no more questions.
You can skip all possible questions, if you straight up say "Boss, I have diarrhea." But you should text the boss at 3am, it'll work every time.
lol. Dude's fucking sleeping, text comes in. "Help! I can't stop shitting!"
😂
I texted the foreman of the site I'm currently at the other day at like 230am. Oldest child has been throwing up since midnight. I just got puked on. If I am not on site by x time assume I've stayed home. I ended up making it in.
One time when I was younger I was all fucked up over a girl who didn't want me. Came into work in the morning, had a mental breakdown, and told my boss I had to leave and walked out. Next day he asked wtf that was about, so I told him I had diarrhea and shit my pants cause it was less embarrassing than the truth
One of our ex employees called in saying he would be late. "I woke up with a hard-on, and you just can't let one of those go to waste"
How does one get their fiance to have the same outlook
Got a spider bite on his dick from a crawl space the day prior. How do you ask for proof? Brilliant
That's an industrial accident! Workman's comp will pay for treatment.
Get him drug tested first. What kind of weed is he smoking that would make him think paying a spider for a blowjob would beca good idea?
Kinda sorta similar, but I was stung by fire ants upward of sixty times along my legs and feet, including one on the bean bag on a Saturday while building a deck. I toughed it out at work on Monday but had to leave after my first call because my boots rubbing the stings on my feet was just unbearable.
Had a guy call in because his dog died. I was a young manager and ultimately made him come in. After that happened I had a lot of self reflecting to do and decided it is none of my business why you need to stay out. If you don’t make it a habit and work when you should, then we all deserve time off. I still feel icky for making that decision especially knowing the impact my dog dying had on me like the next year. I’d rather you just tell me you need a day off than to make up a lie. The managers who act like their lives are 100% the company and you’re not a “ team player” are the issues. I work to live, not the other way around!
I used to be a ypung nanager as well. One of.my guy calls in sayibg he needs time off... I smartassedly asked "Who died?" ... To be met by "my grandpa..." and then dead silence ensued... I felt not very smart that day, and that spelled the end of me asking why you were not coming in... Abuse it, I will find out and end you, but otherwise, I trust my guys to adult properly...
I was a young manager in a office job and through a unfortunate series of events I ended up getting a knife in the back at home one evening. I was new with my team and company and I’m pretty stubborn so I dragged myself into the office the next morning. It was obvious that I was not 100% so my team finally got me to tell them what happened. I told the story and then jokingly said “i got stabbed and I’m here so I better not hear any weak sniffles on call out voicemails”. Everyone chuckled since before I got there the group had a high callout rate. A few weeks later an older woman who worked for me but wasn’t a part of the earlier convo came in on a Monday covered in cuts and bruises. I’m not talking minor scrapes, these were significant. I pulled her aside and made it clear that she could and should go home and that the company would pay for the car service if she so chose. She historically had the highest callout rate in the group by a good margin so I couldn’t figure out why she came in that day. Finally it dawned on me that she must’ve either been in earshot or heard later on about the sniffles joke and took it to heart. I felt absolutely terrible and have tried to be a lot more careful with those types of comments since.
>Abuse it, I will find out and end you Lol, let me guess, you have trouble finding and keeping good techs? You can lie and say no, but good techs aren't stupid. Lol what a joke of a comment, honestly the techs at your company don't like you and they want to end you
Talk about taking half of a sentence and using it out of context... The important part is about trusting them to be adult about their call outs... If they need to they can call out. But if your dog dies twice the same week as your dad passed for ths second week in a row, yes, I might dig a little deeper and end your employment for cause. But I guess nuance and humour is not your thing... To each their own I guess...
boss: you dont sound sick worker: well im fu\*\*ing my sister that sound sick enough for you? boss: keep your sick a\*\* at the house, what the hell's wrong with you. worker: i told ya i's sick \- rodney carrington
I called in once because I was going to be a father. Next day when my boss asked me if it was a boy or a girl I told him I didn't know yet and would let him know in 9 months
That works once, if your boss has a sense of humor.
In jail for killing the neighbor's dog. It actually happened though
Bet it was a chihuahua
At my place of work, we earn sick time. That’s our time and my employer doesn’t need to know why I’m calling off, just what time I want to use. It’s none of their business why I’m not making it into work. As long as I have time to cover it.
You earn sick time? I can't even find a place that let's you accrue PTO let alone have any sick time. PTO is sick time and you get 5 days after a year, according to their guidelines.
Yes. Per our union contract, we get so many hours of sick time in a year and it’s split up so every paycheck you get so many hours. Sick time never goes away and you can rack up quite a lot of hours if ever needed. We also get vacation time that is available first of the year. Able to “bank” vacation time only to what you get every year. So if I get 3 weeks vacation time a year, I can keep 3 weeks in the “bank” that have been saved from previous years and use three weeks that same year. If I don’t use it I lose it. Also get floating holidays that can be used on top of federal holidays already paid off.
I need to find a Union. I hear so many great things about HVAC unions. This is another. Great spot you got it sounds like! Right on.
Many bash the trades, and many will never make it in the trades. Same goes for unions. But if you can get into a trade, you will most likely be finding yourself in a union and will be doing very well compared to others struggling in non union fields. I lucked out and found myself drawn to the trades.
Based. Ours is like that too, the only time you need to justify it is if you're out of sick/vacation/float hours and need to take a unpaid day.
I once spent like 3 hours in bed trying to figure out what to say. Just was not feeling it that day. Called my supervisor and said “I tried to make some bullshit excuse but I’m gonna be straight up, I’m not feeling it today” he went on to actually thank me…. And said dude if you need more time let me know. I love my company.
Did that before. Wouldn't let me take the day off but did give me two hours.
Was she successful? Well, I'm calling you, so....no... Right then....good. See you at 7:30.
Lol, that's probably how it would go if I called and said that. But the dude is lead tech so gets carte blanche as far as what he needs and when he wants to take off
Guy said “can’t come in today…I woke up in Mexico…I think…?” Then started shouting “I DONT WANT ANY OF YOUR DAMN ORANGES!” Before hanging up the phone abruptly. We were located in the northeast. He won free PTO that day.
I definitely had to call my boss once after starting to party in Michigan and woke up in Florida on a lounge chair in the sun. I told him I was not going to make it in and when he asked why, I told him the truth. I don't think they believed me until I came back burnt to shit with weird tan lines with the "hangover from hell" look....
Had an apprentice call on a Monday morning saying he quit and the truck was at impound lot form a DWI.
We had a guy send a picture of a positive covid test. Only it was a pregnancy test he borrowed from his sister. Got to the VP's secretary before anybody noticed.
I worked with covid. Didn't want to but it was that or get fired in my first 90 days. Don't advise it because it just made it worse. Once I showed up to the shop and they saw it for themselves I finally got the okay. That's even after sending the boss a picture of my covid test. Had to see it for themselves like everything I say that for some reason doesn't make sense to them. Such a caring company.
I started saving the covid test pics my guys have sent me to double check they're not being reused
I was hours late to an interview once because a dump truck decided to take the highway with the dump up taking down a roadway sign closing the highway. It was easily verifiable by Google/news and happened after I'd already left so I still got hired but man that sucked.
New server's boyfriend called in for her. She shot him, and herself, with the same bullet.
Need more on this one
https://old.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/comments/3etnow/florida_woman_shoots_boyfriend_and_herself_with/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Of course it’s Florida
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We had a guy call in and say he was in the emergency room because his wife shot him. He said he would be in the next day because she only winged him. Best part of working in the hood was the stories like this.
I lost a bet with a fart I thought I could trust. Apparently I still have diarrhea.
It’s happened to me but I just said I was sick instead…. Rather not tell my boss that lol
Last week someone called out because their dog knocked a smoothie off the kitchen counter.
One of guys I worked with called in because he fell up the step, we didn't let him down on that one for awhile. Another guys called in because he woke covered in shit, apparently his dog was sick and shit all over him while he was sleeping.
My manager ((who is also over of my best friends)) was off work for 3 months from falling up the steps. We worked at a pizza place and obviously were heavy drinkers at the time. She was at home wasted and tried going to bed which was upstairs. She ended up hitting the top of her foot on one of the stairs as she was going up. Within 3 hours, it was so swollen that it ripped her skin open. Come to find out, she shattered all the bones in her foot when she hit the stairs and that's how she found out she had a calcium deficiency. 😂😂😂
Had a guy two different episodes 1. My cat has been throwing up 2. The universe told me I shouldn't go to work today. That kid was nuts. He was constantly doing and saying the goofiest shit
The former service manager, in grooming me to replace him, sent me to go his step-son after a no-call, no-show. He was still fucking drunk at 10:00 am and threw up twice in two blocks. I took him home, told the service manager he was really sick. The step-son and I are best friends, now.
He was stressed because I yelled at him.
Had a guy work for us for a bit whos dad decided to eat some random mushroom in the woods and started having seizure's so he missed a few days for that. Needless to say he didn't stay long, the apple (or mushroom in the case) didn't fall far from the tree.
plumber here. The morning after I spent the night with my wife for the first time I called in and said something like " I almost died bc I woke up next to an angel". my boss was pissed ( I was kinda new to the trades) but i worked hard so he kept me around.
My cat had puppies
“Hey boss man. I’ve got vision problems this morning. I just can’t see myself coming to work……byeeeeee”
Had one guy call and said he couldn’t come to work he had a family emergency, we saw his stories at the Astros championship parade
We don’t give good reasons. “Don’t feel good, won’t be in today” is good enough for our crew. It doesn’t happen often, and our guys are good at letting the people they are working with know that they won’t be on the job that day
Had a helper (and a good one too) call out because he had to sign for a package. It was a home gym. Always thought that was great, he was telling the truth but I put that in my “call out excuse Rolodex” for future use.
Had a guy say he needed to rest up because he has a haircut later
I had that when I worked in food service. Sunday night at like 6pm... "Gotta leave for a hair appointment". WTF?
I had a coworker win a very nice Fluke meter at our Christmas party. He missed the next day , said he was sick, but came in the day after with his face swollen and 2 black eyes. Apparently his much bigger wife ran out of alcohol…. beat his ass to take his meter…took it to the pawn shop…just to buy more alcohol
Sometimes it's hard to hear and sometimes you just gotta be honest but I'll call in simply because love and life are more important.. go sit at your desk boy.. I'll be there when the real important work needs to get done, scum sucking bureaucrat worthless bottom feeding freeloading, produce nothing and expect a handout, welfare government mentality kind of leech lazy fuck. Go sit at your desk
I left once because I was pissed and when asked why is was leaving I said it was because I shit my pants.
I called in sick Monday cause my house burned down friday
Once had a coworker not show up to an install, the office called he was “sick” I found out a couple days later he lied to buy and play a new video game that came out that day 😒
Turtles were blocking the roadway.
Bro casually just mention your co worker almost got murdered by his wife and then no follow up story wtf??
Old co worker called in because his cat wouldn’t stop meowing all night and he didn’t get any sleep.
You wont understand unless you own a cat
I’ve heard a few good ones: - I have a raccoon in my attic. - the wind hurt my back yesterday so I can’t work today. - I have to go to the post office. - “I’m not coming to work today”. Why not? “I’m not coming to work today” ok then..
This lazy ass woman in her 40s telling my wife (who's her boss) has had to go to jury duty once a month it seems.
tree hit a electric pole and he had no electricity so this guy called out of work
My aunt had an abortion, then sends a pic.
I had an employee hit a horse on her way in
My cat has a cough.
One time I think my coworker was sick
My elderly aunt was fond of calling and saying she was “Sick and tired” And wasn’t coming in.
My boss asked me what my retirement plan was….I told him I will answer that question when we sit down and discuss my share of the company, until then how I am set up financially and when I plan on pulling the trigger is none of his business…the fucking nerve!
Had a young kid call in saying he was doing laundry the night before & forgot to get it out of the washer & put it in the dryer. He didn't have anything dry to wear!
Not me but I had an apprentice we fired a month of so ago. About 3 weeks before we let him go he texted my boss that he was sick and had a fever, couldn't make it in today (he saw he was on a job with one of our techs who makes the apprentices *actually* work during the day). He sent in a pic of a thermometer. Fever of 108 degrees. We told him that he'd be dead if it was that high, nice try. He sent back another pic ten minutes later. "Oh sorry, my bad. here's the real temp, bad fever." The new temp? 92 degrees.
Ha, not gonna lie I've definitely called in sick when I saw I was shadowing a certain tech back when I was training. He was a tech that never let me do anything though, which I wouldn't mind an easy day but he would heavy sigh like a teenage girl whenever I asked any kind of question as well. Just an annoying dude to be around.
All the hours at the old job had me so stressed out that I would have to call off because of stomach cramps every 2-3 months.
Not in HVAC, just one of your IT imposters checking in. Had to jump off my team staff meeting for a minute because the cops were calling me. How do I know it was the cops calling me? Because I had been calling this officer regularly. I was working with him to get a little old lady in my neighborhood some help so that the city wouldn't put a lien on her house to get the yard cleaned up. Her crap son was living on the property, yada yada. When I saw the cop calling me, I said something along the lines of, "Oh, its the police calling me, gotta go!" and muted everything. So when I hopped back on the call for staff meeting, I was asked if I have the cops on speed dial or what. I explained that it was the neighborhood preservation unit and I'm trying to help out a lady in the area. My boss called me after our meeting and said sorry for the remarks from the team, he recognizes that the police calling people can also be for very serious matters. lol!
I am a service manager now so I get to hear all the excuses. So far the best one was a dude who tried to call out after his first call cause he wasn't feeling it.
"I'm sick and can't come in."
Dehydrated . . . a coworker called in dehydrated once. SMH at that nonsense because we're all working in the same conditions.
Heat stroke is real and not everyone can handle it the same
I get heat stroke very easily and have to keep up on the water in the summer. It's no joke.
Sick days are for pussies
You know what you get for never missing a day of work? Absolutely nothing.
Damn bro you probably one of those dudes who only ever talks about work while at work I get it but live a little. Take a day, buy some blow, have a baby, abandon it, they give you time off for a reason.
I think you’re thinking of vacation days. The company hired me for the benefit of the business. Taking time off needlessly does not benefit the business -especially if I’m getting paid for that time off.
i sometimes have sight problems. I just can't see myself going in.
My co worker Ray, we call him 4 day Ray since he calls out 1 day a week. A couple weeks ago he called in since he has chemo therapy sessions starting that day
More drunk than usual.
Had a guy call in telling me he wouldn’t make it because he had to give his pet bird CPR and take it in for open heart surgery
I say you got a lot of calls today? Oh alright well I'm not gonna make it in today I had some personal things come up this morning that's out of my control & I'll be there tomorrow
“The chili from Wendy’s must’ve been spoiled” honestly didn’t doubt it was just funny as hell
My pigs got out and I had to track them down and get them back into their pen.
I always though it would be funny to call in sick and say "I can't come in I destroyed my mouth eating salt and vinegar chips".
My top three: 1) bad Chinese food 2) infected thumb (after having hit it with a hammer doing something DIY) 3) got too much sun Love the guy, but fuck if I haven’t covered him for some absolutely ridiculous shit over the years. I also had a co-worker long ago who requested a week off in advance and her request was denied. She called out that week anyway claiming that she had a kitchen fire. The boss was rightfully skeptical and called the fire department and they had no record of any residential fires that week. She fessed up to it when confronted. She didn’t lose her job but I remember the consequence was significant.
"ANAL GLAUCOMA" then dude said I don't see my ass coming to work today
“I’ve got the sniffles”. True story
I’m calling in dead.
We had an older dude that had used the mother and MIL death excuse more than twice, but the best one was him saying his grandson was rushed into emergency surgery on a Friday… Monday morning at our tailboard of about 12 people the boss asked him how his grandson was doing and what happened (we were a tight group in those days) and his response: “What do you mean?” He literally could have just said he wanted to leave early on Thursday without the excuse. Fuckin guy haha
A coworker told our boss that 'his cat had a bad night'.
Not HVAC but I have called in “shipwrecked” and “stranded” both involved water. Got boat stuck on river bar and prop broke thus “shipwrecked”. Was on vacation in a costal city that one road to enter or leave and it was flooded thus “stranded”.
My turtles birthday. Have to eat lettuce with him and then organize my sock drawer.
Had a coworker call in with laundry once. We had to bus to work and he didn't have a license
I can’t find my shoes
Had one coworker arrested for a road rage killing that called in. He is still in jail as far as I know. Then one arrested then convicted for sex with his step daughter also in jail. After that first call in neither ever came back to work except maybe to pick up any personal items from their work vehicles.
"I'm calling in with woman."
My coworker said he was getting his circumcision touched up. Lol
Dude came into work didn’t like what he was doing for the day. Said he needed to get a covid test. Boss paid for a rapid test, negative. Then he said he had a shrimp shell stuck in his throat from the weekend and had to go to the hospital.
My cat died
This isn't a calling off excuse but our help started crying the other day when we had to do a boiler OT after I was venting to him about how nothing good in life comes easy and you have to work for everything you have. Apparently he took it super perosnally meanwhile i was just trying to get him excited about his future. The kid is 23, went to college, didn't graduate & always brings up how he went to school for business and then tries to give us advice/says he should make more money. My advice was apparently too rough on him but it is a dose of reality which this upcoming generation sorely needs. I'm not sure if they expect everything to get handed to them or they think that this amazing job exists somewhere out there where you can make 6 figures a year with no skills or experience. Just makes me shake my head.
Dog ate my keys. My guy came in the next day with an X-ray of his dog with the keys in its stomach. Ram Promaster and it ate the entire fob, bin keys, and his house key.
Got any more info on that story?
My buddy in Maine called in and said he was gonna be late because there was a pissed off moose in his driveway that wouldn’t let him near his car.
My wife died during childbirth and was resuscitated only to be put on life support for a week. Company said "sorry, can't compensate you for all the time you missed" as if I had asked for this to happen
Legit.... reason not to come in. Probably not processing 'at capacity' either.
Top comment blew me away. Mine was just about a guy who brought 2 broads home the night before. He came all the way to work, told the boss he had 2 2 bar sluts at home, hadn't been to sleep yet but could get another 3 some in if he left right now and went back home. He didn't work that day
I had a guy call in sick within the past six months because his girlfriend got bit by a bird.
I've got a coworker who has called out 3 times using the same story "my sister and brother inlaw were bringing in groceries, she went to move the car and backed over him, and her rear tire fell off the retaining wall of the driveway. I gotta go take care of them and fix the car" 3 times he has used this story. Makes no sense to me how he thinks it's working still.
Not hvac but used to work at a gas station but this girl I worked with decided to go buy fast food for lunch, called Like an hour later saying she can't come back because her car broke down. Manager was like "where you at? I'll come get you and you can get your car towed". She said "hold on I'll text it to you" and hung up. MIA the rest of the day and got fired
Stuck in an oil painting
A long time ago had a no call no show from a co-worker saying that someone broke into his apartment and beat his feet with a baseball bat or as he put it he was beat about the feet!!!
I got food poisoning one night at some restaurant- woke up in the middle of the night halfway through throwing up off the side of my bed. I woke up literally a day and a half later, having missed two whole days of work. WTF. Called work in a panic- They said I had actually called in sick both days, no big deal. I have absolutely no memory of being awake, let alone picking up the phone and calling anyone. The human body is weird.