Being sick excuse #37 - pink eye
Pink eye is an easy way to get out of work if you are looking for good sick excuses. You might think that only kids get pink eye, but that’s not true. Sure, it’s more common among the kiddies, but you can still get it as an adult.
The best thing about using pink eye as an excuse is that it is highly contagious! And I think it is a pretty safe bet to say that most everyone knows that pink eye is contagious.
There are a few different kinds of pink eye. One kind requires antibiotics and another kind just goes away in a few days. However, pink eye can last up to 10 days.
I would not want to press my luck with my employer requiring a doctor’s note, so I would do a max 2 days off with this one. Or, what you could do is go to work and after being there a couple of hours go into the bathroom with some eye drops and get one eye all red and bloodshot. Come back and tell your boss that you think you need to go home cause you are pretty sure you have pink eye cause your cousin/nephew/kid has it.
Your boss will take one look at your eye and probably take one giant leap back from you. Then you could take the rest of that day as well as two additional days. You might want to call the boss late that first afternoon to let ‘em know that you do indeed have pink eye.
I’d try to use this excuse on a Wednesday so that you can bank it beside a weekend for extra time off. Or for bonus points, bank it on a weekend that touches a holiday off.
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