#5 – “Bereavement”
Of course the loss of someone you care about is tragic, and not something to be taken lightly. But the loss of an imaginary person/relative you’ve never met/person who died five years ago is apparently a completely acceptable way to avoid going to work on a sunny Tuesday. The tricky part, of course, is remembering who died, when, and whether they have died before. It’s one thing to call in and say you lost your distant Uncle Reg – it’s quite another to lose your mother twice in six months, or go through six grandparents over the course of two years. Approach this excuse with caution, and remember that you should definitely, absolutely, feel guilty about using it.