Excuses for Getting Caught Sleeping on the Job

  1. " They told me at the blood bank this might happen."
  2. " This is just a 15-minutes power nap like they raved about in that time-management course you send me to."
  3. " I was working smarter not harder."
  4. " Whew! I must left the top of the liquid paper."
  5. " Oh, I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on our mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!"
  6. " This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"
  7. " I was testing the keyboard for drool-resistance."
  8. " I was trying to remember what that difficult "Z" Key was, and now it is indelibly imprinted on my brain, or at least my forehead."
  9. " I'm in the management training program."
  10. " I'm actually doing a " Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (sleep) I learned at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend."
  11. " This is in exchange for the six hour last night when I dreamed about work!"
  12. " I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work related stress. Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?"
  13. " Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."
  14. " Uh, hey, Whaddaya expect......the coffee machine is broken...."
  15. " Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot."
  16. " Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off !"
  17. " It worked well for regain, didn't it ?"
  18. " Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic !"
  19. " I wasn't sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands."
  20. " The mailman flipped out and pulled a gun so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot."
  21. " Geez, I thought you ( the boss) were gone for the day."

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