When you ask people the question “how to get excused from work”, the commonest answer will be that if they tell that they are sick, they will be excused. In fact, managers are so sick of hearing this reason that they will look at the person who gives this reason from head to toe. This means people should be creative when they want to get excused from work.

Whether you, as an employee, use your creativity while executing your work or not, you must be creative while coming out with excuses. You can have a few standard ideas and keep juggling with them or improving upon them every time you want to seek excuses. Apart from convincing the managers (though managers always refuse to be convinced), these alibis will be fun for you.

You can adjust these standard reasons to suit the current situations and convince your employer. This strategy will help avoid giving stereo-typed excuses. Experts point out that if your reasons poke fun at yourself, you can lighten the situation, though the reasons may not fully convince your employers.

If you become famous in your workplace due to your excuses, your co-workers and even your manager may eagerly wait for the next occasion when you will surprise them with a new and funny excuse. They may be all admiration for your prowess in coming out with such alibis, though they may not openly admit it. If work really sucks, you can get some time off with a doctor’s note.

For example, if you tell your employer that all your plans of finishing your official work went astray because your attention was so much diverted by the presence of a gorgeous girl in the bus stop that you boarded a wrong bus and reached a wrong destination, your employer will have a hearty laugh at you. There are chances of he reducing the punishment or even dropping the idea of penalizing you for your failure.

The question “how to get excused from work” is not difficult to answer if you put forth some efforts on finding the right and genuinely-sounding reasons. Recently, an employee, who was a democratic party supporter, said that he could not bear the victory of Donald Trump and that he could not work with his optimum efficiency, thanks to his bad mood.

You are warned that you should not partner with others when you are coming out with excuses because there may be “communication distortions” in such collaborative efforts. Experts point out that people express their ideas in vastly different ways. If there are distortions in the statements you and your partners make, your employer may easily find out that everyone is lying.

When you come out with excuses at the workplace, you must be careful because your excuses should suit the manager with whom you are working. Some managers are traditional minded and they may not like if your excuses do not go well with their conservative nature. There are managers who are modern and who keep abreast of the latest innovations and happenings and you can afford to use the current trends in your alibis.

To summarize, getting excused from work is not at all difficult. Some common sense and a little creativity are enough to come out with excellent and believable reasons. The listeners may not necessarily believe your statements but since your reasons appear to be half-truths, they may give you what is known as the benefit of doubt, reluctantly though.