Whats the craziest call off excuse you have ever received as a kitchen manager/chef?
I had a young man call in and say his girlfriends father had a heart attack and were out of toen. I looked at the caller id and sae he was at home. When questioned he said they are getting items to travel with, Call me later i said so we can adjust schedule. He called later, after hanging i checked the number he called from and was a pay phone by his house. He comes to work on next scheduled day. and i ask him about it. He says he was embarrassed to tell me he caught solisiting a prostitute and spent the night in jail ( looking for man to man sympathy) I say show me the report , his jaw drops everything was lie , out the door you go .
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Permalink Reply by Dave on -
I once had a server not show up at her scheduled start time. I called her 20 minutes after and she informed me that she was not feeling very well today and so would not be able to come into work. When I inquired what the problem was she informed me that her cat had kittens last nite and she got no sleep because of it. I fired her immediately.
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Permalink Reply by jerry spencer on -
one of my things that I like to do was always call and check on the sick person about two hours later or so
and you would get the parent and they would tell that there son or daughter had went to the movies or something like that not knowing they had called in sick.
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on -
I just always had the same girl tell me over and over again that she was sick on Sundays -- kinda funny considering she always went out on Saturday nights. She may have had the sick voice down, but her acting skills weren't good enough to keep her job.
**I like those new Vegas commercials though. They come up with the most random reasons to skip out on work to go to Las Vegas. :)
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Permalink Reply by Matthew Tillis on -
Our potwasher called in saying he was too tired to work...two weeks before that it was jail...he was fired after no call no show cuz he assumed that snow would keep him from showing up and no call was nessesary last week. Funny, the last potwasher called in once saying his basement apartment was flooded..funny cuz not more than a month before that he said he looked down from his bedroom window to view vandals throwing a brick through his car window! ....GOOD HELP IS HARD TO FIND
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Permalink Reply by Kurt Ted Herman on -
I once had a cook call me on a weekend and said that she had to go to court at 5pm... on a Saturday!?!?!?!
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Permalink Reply by Walter J. Dobrovolny on -
One of my sous chef's called in 5 minutes before his shift . Said he wasn't gonna be able to make it in he had "GOUT"! WTF! Of course, this happened on a Saturday... already down 1 person in the salad department. Then he pulls this one out of the air. Wouldn't you know it, he also had Sunday & Monday already scheduled off. I thought that only pirates got the gout? What an idiot! Needless to say, he did not last very much longer at his position. This happened about four years ago and I still remember it as plain as day. He definitely got alot of crap about it for many weeks after.
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Permalink Reply by CAROL A. GOODRICH on
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I just wanted to let Walter know that my husband gets gout in his foot and it is a horrible, painful experience for a day or two until his pills kick in. He is an Instrument Tech for the city - not a pirate.
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Permalink Reply by FlChef on -
to be honest I have gout and if it flares up I cant walk. The pain is so bad that any pressure on it sends me to the floor. It can also flare up at any time, there is no build up. I think your thinking of Scurvy in pirates not gout.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Gershkoff on -
As a manager at a certain "buffalo wing" (one that only has female servers)chain a few years back, I had a server call out on a pay per view WWE wrestling show night - which did not make sense to me because it was usually a night where the servers would make really good tips so I asked her why. Her reply was that she couldn't walk. I said "excuse me?" in disbelief. She explained that yesterday was her fiancee's birthday and for his birthday all he wanted was to do something she had NEVER let him do before to her in bed. She was unprepared for the experience and today could not walk without much discomfort. Needless to say I was dumbfounded and let her have the night off.....To this day I tell the story as the BEST excuse EVER for calling out.{Specific details have been left out because otherwise this post would be deleted :-) }
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Permalink Reply by Bonita Dodson on -
OMG This was hilarious! I can't stop laughing
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Permalink Reply by Stan Skord on
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Too funny, you must be a comfortable person to talk to that a woman would tell you she just got rear ended by a truck. I heard the period cramps but never that explicit, I don't know how I would have reacted!
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