Best Excuses To Use When Caught Sleeping At Work

They told me at the blood bank that this might happen.

This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time

management course you sent me to.

I was working smarter - not harder.

Whew! I must have left the top off the whiteout.

I wasn’t sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and

envisioning 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.

I’m actually doing a Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan (SLEEP).

I learned at the last mandatory seminar you made me 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. Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?

Damn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to

our biggest problem.

The coffee machine is broken....

Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot.

Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won’t wear off.

Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!

I wasn’t sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without

my hands.

The mail courier flipped out and pulled a gun so I was playing dead to

avoid getting shot.

Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day.