• Upset stomach
• take pet to animal hospital
• grab niece from day care
• a personal matter
• Dr’s appt.
• the office is too hot
• the need to watch training videos in peace
• urgent issues
• having to do something work related in the morning, off site, so why go in after your done.
• biopsy
• the tax office to register your car
• something broke and you need to get it fixed.
• the thing that broke didn’t get fixed the first day, so now you need a second one
• the thing that broke happens to be your ac, so you have to take your pet somewhere to cool off.
• your niece has lice and it’s up to you to take care of it.
• you need to pick someone up at the airport
• thier flight got in late, so you need to pick them the next day instead.
• a cold, not covid
• a different cold, still not covid.
• your car needs an oil change.
• a different doctors appt.
• to swing by somewhere that closes at 5.

Ok, look, i have about 300 of these. One for almost every day of the week. Lady (no, not me) is always making an excuse to leave early or not come in at all. Does it piss some people off? Sure, but nobody has stopped her yet.