Best excuses if you get caught
sleeping in your office cubicle:
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"It''''s okay: I''''m still billing the client."
· "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."
· "This is just a 15-minute power nap like they raved about in that time-
management course you sent me to."
· "I was working smarter, not harder."
· "Whew! I must a left the top off the liquid paper."
· "I wasn''''t sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!"
· "This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"
· "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."
· "I''''m in the management training program."
· "I''''m actually doing a "Stress Level Elimination
Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) I learned at the last management seminar you made me attend."
· "This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!"
· "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress.
· Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?"
· "Darnn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."
· "The coffee machine is broken."
· "Someone must''''ve put decaf in the wrong pot."
· "Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won''''t wear off!"
· "It worked well for Reagan, didn''''t it?"
· "I was cross-training for telecommuting."
· "Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!"
· "Wasn''''t sleeping. Was trying to pick up a contact lens without hands."
· "The mailman flipped out and pulled a gun, so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot."
· "Geez, I thought you were gone for the day."