According to a survey, dubious excuses put forward by U.S. workers for taking a sick day range from an employee claiming a plastic surgery procedure needed some "tweaking" to get it just right, to a worker saying he or she had accidentally got on a plane.
Other gems recounted by employers include: a worker having just put a casserole in the oven; an employee who claimed to have got stuck in a blood pressure machine at the grocery store; and a worker saying he'd had a "lucky night" and didn't know where he was.
Another employee told her boss she fell and broke her ankle after her legs "fell asleep" while she was sitting in the bathroom.
Over the past year, the survey indicates, 28% of employees have called in to work sick when they were feeling well, down 4% from last year.
