best excuses for missing a deadline? bonus points for technical reasons and humorous reasons.

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All deliverables matter..!! Was busy with other deliveries..!

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Download a random jpeg file of maybe 4-5 mb, open in notepad, remove 4-5 chunks of 20 lines each, save as ppt and hand in.
You will know when it was opened and reviewed as it won’t be possible to open it and you will have some extra time to do whatever you need to do.

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K1, it's automatic, although it's configurable. Most people don't even know it's automatically happening.

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"I thought you were kidding about that one!"

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Ive personally used this before and it worked: “I needed to call our Help desk”

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Haha not 2 weeks but a solid 36 hours to get things done.

Dog ate the deliverable

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Massive herpes flair up .....

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As someone who suffers, this wouldn’t prohibit a deliverable. Just sayin

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Sharepoint is acting up on me. 🤣

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My mom called in "gassy" to work once. Turns out she had appendicitis and had to have surgery. They still laugh about her initial explanation for missing work though

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Laptop died on me and can’t go to IT because of COVId

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We haven’t figured out what the hell we want to say yet...

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Left my laptop at the strip club we visited last night while entertaining the client.

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Yes, prince Andrew owns it, it is private

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Coronavirus killed my deck

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This is a genuine excuse .. my cousin got into a fist fight and got beaten.. I had to go and get him from college..

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Family emergency

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Power outage

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It’s my cat’s fault!

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Stubbed my toe

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