Office Excuses For Sleeping

1. This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to.
   
   
2. I was working smarter - not harder.
   
   
3. Whew!  I must have left the top off the whiteout.
   
   
4. I wasn't sleeping!  I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!
   
   
5. This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!
   
   
6. I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance.
   
   
7. I'm in the management training program.
   
   
8. I'm actually doing a Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan (SLEEP).  I learned at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend.
   
   
9. This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!
   
   
10. I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work related stress.  Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?
    
    
11. Damn!  Why did you interrupt me?  I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem.
    
    
12. The coffee machine is broken . . . .
    
    
13. Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot.
    
    
14. Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off.
    
    
15. Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!
    
    
16. I wasn't sleeping.  I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands.
    
    
17. The mail courier flipped out and pulled a gun so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot.
    
    
18. Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day.

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