3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
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#2> But how well would it fly if you were to plead the need to feast, to embalm your brother, or to make an offering to a god?
Vacation, funerals, religious holy-days?
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#3Excuses, Beer and Wife problems.
3,200 years and we still have the same complaints. :)
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#4The great thing about being a senior is that you can use hungover as an excuse for missing meetings. I wouldn’t have dared that at the beginning of my career
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#5Up too late reading Pharoah News
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#6> to embalm your brother
If I'd used that excuse at my old work it would probably have triggered a 'difficult conversation' with my line manager.
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#7I used to live in a scorpion-rich environment and can attest that a sting should disqualify one from manual labor for a day. I found that every time I was stung though the effects were less and less. The last time I was stung was a minor nuisance at most.
I would advise, if you find yourself living with scorpions, to check your shoes, by shaking them out, before putting them on.
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#8The great thing about being a senior is that you can use hungover as an excuse for missing meetings. I wouldn’t have dared that at the beginning of my career
You should probably avoid using that too often, or being pretty apologetic about it. Especially if you forbid your juniors from using it as an excuse.
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#9I had a back spasm episode a couple weeks ago. It led me to think about laborers taking off work throughout the ages. Interesting to see this now.
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#10I used to live in a scorpion-rich environment and can attest that a sting should disqualify one from manual labor for a day. I found that every time I was stung though the effects were less and less. The last time I was stung was a minor nuisance at most. I would advise, if you find yourself living with scorpions, to check your shoes, by shaking them out, before putting them on.
My family lived in Texas for a time when my sister was younger and she stepped out of the shower one day and was stung on the head by a scorpion that was in her towel. Hearing that story I was certainly very vigilant, even paranoid perhaps, about checking my shoes and such when we went to visit family there when I was a kid.