Welcome back to Pissing Contest, where every week we try to outdo each other with our craziest real life stories.…

I can't go out. *Cough* I'm sick.

Ever tried to make plans with someone who's just so busy and so full of excuses that they're not available until April…

Fire up the gaffe signal; the President said something unscripted! Yesterday, during an "hot mic" moment at the UN…

I showed up over an hour late to a doctor's appointment yesterday because I fucked up my Google Calendar alert — it…

In last year's Sundance movie The Lie, a man who plays hooky from work tells his boss that his kid is sick. Later,…

Anybody who's been an employee knows that when their lives are suddenly struck with a deux ex machina that prevents…

Well, if it isn't a new entry for the Terrible Excuses Hall of Fame. A woman in Arkansas gave this bold explanation for…

We've all been there: you show up a little later than you'd planned for work, and, of course, your boss just happens…

This list is pretty good generally, but we have to give the "Chutzpah Prize" to the employee who called in sick from a…

We've heard some fucked-up rationales for infidelity, but this one, via Babble, takes the cake.

When my boyfriend of six years told me he'd been cheating, a friend said, "Why did he tell you? That was so selfish!" As…