Caught Sleeping
(Best excuses if you get caught sleeping in your cubicle)
- 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 the last time
management course you sent me to.
- I was working smarter, not harder.
- "Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper."
- "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and invisioning
a new paradigm!"
- This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!
- I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance.
- I'm in the management training program.
- Actually doing a "Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan" (SLEEP) you
learned at the last manditory seminar your boss made you 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. Are you discriminatory towards people who practice Yoga?"
- Damn! Why did you interupt me? I had almost figured out a
solution to our biggest problem.
- The coffee machine is broke....Someone must've put decafe 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 contact lense without hands.
- The mailman flipped out and took out a gun so I was playing dead to
avoid getting shot.
- I thought you (boss) were gone for the day.

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