A 21-year-old German woman who did not feel like going to work at a fast food restaurant sent her parents a text message saying she had been kidnapped.
Police in the Bavarian town of Straubing said Wednesday they had launched a massive search throughout the region for the woman who disappeared on December 23 but turned up unscathed the following morning, saying the kidnapper had set her free.
A spokesman said the woman was questioned over the Christmas holiday and admitted she made up the story because she owed a colleague 25 euros ($32.9) and did not have the money to pay her debt.
She now faces a fine of up to 1,000 euros.
This was decades ago. I told my boss I had to go to the other side of the country to be with a close friend who was deathly ill. When I returned, they were ready to confront me about my extended absence [I’d called and said I was providing a transfusion]. I had returned — looking drawn and exhausted [well, hungover].
The boss asked me, sarcastically, “how’s your buddy, now?”
I responded, softly, “He died.”
End of questions.
“The boss asked me, sarcastically, “how’s your buddy, now?””
I had a similar situation from high school several decades ago. My grandmother had died and I need to move one of my final exams to go to the funeral.
I asked the teacher and in an obnoxious and condescending voice he looked at me and said.
Needless to say, his tone did a complete 180 after I told him about the funeral. Unfortunately, foot in mouth disease is a common ailment.
I also wanted to post my “get out of work” story. I used to work in a factory and every morning you’d go in and look at the work sheet to know where you were supposed to work that day.
Well, one day my name was not on the list. Sure, I could have went to a supervisor and told him or her about the error, but I decided to take a day off of work while at work.
I spent the whole day, we worked ten hour shifts, just walking around talking shit with other employees. And when a supervisor saw me, he or she only knew that I wasn’t working for them. I would just quickly finish the conversation and move to a different area and I had no problems.
How far would you go — to avoid going to work?
I’m reading and contributing to this blog.
#3 – Most of the posts on this blog these days are about as annoying as work, however.
#4, I’m glad you recognize that in yourself.
The girls mistake was not sticking to her story and telling the cops she made it up. How are they to know if she was kidnapped or not? You think the supposed people who kidnapped her are going to give her their names and addresses? If you choose to make up a lie that can’t really be proved, at least see it through. It’s the American way.
#5 – Talking about you, but thanks for the continued worship.