49% of Workers Admit to Calling in “Sick” to Enjoy Summer!
In a recent Monster homepage poll, we asked visitor about their summertime work habits — specifically, “Have you ever called in ‘sick’ from work in order to enjoy beautiful summer weather?” Here’s what you had to to say:
- I do this frequently — at least twice per summer. 8%
- I do this occasionally — no more than once a summer. 11%
- I do this seldom — I’ve done it once or twice in my career. 30%
- I never play hooky from work! 51%
(1,395 respondents)
We also came across a new Wakefield Research Study, commissioned by Citrix, which reports some interesting facts about modern work life. The survey of more than 1,000 American office workers also asked for their most-creative excuses for calling out sick. Here are just a few of the (hilarious?) excuses that survey respondents reported:
- “My bicycle ran out of gas”
- “Gas is too expensive”
- “I’m dieting”
- “I drank too much Sunkist and was too tired to come in”
- “I’m having toenail issues”
- “My numerologist told me not to come in”
- “It’s Elvis’s birthday”
- “Dog sprayed by a skunk”
- “All my clothes are in the washer right now, I have nothing to wear”
- “I had to see where my gardener was really planting everything that I wanted and paid for”
- “Stumbled on the love of my life”
Want to learn some better reasons to tell your boss? Read “10 Excuses for Missing Work.”
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I’m not surprised that people find ways to enjoy summer on weekdays. Doing that can feel a bit liberating, especially if you’re hanging out at a park on a sunny summer day and there aren’t many people around because most of them are at work.
I actually heard a skunk-related excuse before: the person was about to leave her house but one skunk was in her yard. When she tried to get past it, it would hiss and look like it was about to attack. She decided to wait until the coast was clear, so she was late for work that day.