Late arrivals

The United Kingdom division of CareerBuilder.com recently released a report about employee punctuality. The report included several interesting employee excuses for being late.

According to the report, 39% of business leaders in the U.K. reported they are paying more attention to what time workers arrive than they had in healthier economic cycles. Also, 15% of employers said they would terminate an employee who was late two or three times while 12% would terminate the employee for being tardy four or five times.

The report also showed that 46% of employers didn’t care if their employees are running late as long as their work is completed on time with good quality.

Following are the more unusual excuses the U.K. workers gave to explain their late arrivals.
• Employee said there was a bank robbery in front of his house.

• Employee was delayed by volcanic ash.

• Employee was concerned about an impending comet impact.

• Employee reported that a horse jumped over a hedge straight on top of her car.

• Employee’s cat was stuck in the cat flap.

• Employee’s house was on fire.

• Employee’s car was blocked in by a stolen car and the police were taking fingerprints.

• Employee had difficulty adjusting to the climate change from winter to summer.

• Employee said someone moved his teeth.

• Employee said, "I always leave at the same time. Sometimes I’m late, sometimes I’m not. I can’t figure it out."