If You Get Caught Sleeping On The Job Excuses

• 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 musta left the top off the liquid paper.
• Oh, I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on our mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!
• This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!
• I was testing the keyboard for drool-resistance.
• I was trying to remember where that difficult 'Z' key was, and now it is indelibly imprinted on my brain, or at least my forehead.
• I'm in the management training program.
• I'm actually doing a 'Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan' (S.L.E.E.P.) I learned at the last mandatory 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?
• Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem.
• Uh, hey, whaddaya expect... 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!
• Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!
• I wasn't sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands.
• The mailman flipped out and pulled a gun so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot.

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