Excuse

[justineo]

Can anybody think of an excuse for not having done a morning's work on the computer?  Would it seem improbable to say I'd somehow lost it all?

[smudge]

Depends on what else you'd been doing?

[jno]

A very plausible excuse in a low-tech office; in a more advanced one they'd send the IT people in to retrieve it all.

[MunkeyBoy]

Computers "lose" things all the time and it's so easy to delete things that to say you lost it all would be a good excuse. Be careful though if your company has a server which keeps all valubale records on (most large company's do) then could just say well thats ok we will just go and get it off the server.

I prefer the good old "well there was a lot of queries over the phone this morning so I thought it best to deal with them first" Always works for me as there is no record of calls.

Can you tell i do absolutely no work ALL day?

[brionon]

Your Dog ate it? Your PC was abducted by aliens and has returned, flustered but unharmed. A virus attack.Amnesia, you or it. A phantom pregancy. Need any more ?

[MORELLO]

What computer?

[justineo]

Thanks, I'll try some of those

[smudge]

I would go with MunkeyBoy's excuse!

In other words: you can't be in two places at one time!

[MargeB]

Say you're part french and you took the five hours off to maintain working week homogeneity.

[landie]

I'm not getting paid. Will that do?

[MargeB]

Say that you started working, then you got an attack of existentialist angst after realizing that you were in fact just a cog in a huge machine.

[Bangkok]

Curse Bill Gates, roll your eyes and pretend that you will sacrifice your free time to catch up