Escaped Zebras and Must-See TV Rank as Top Tardy Excuses

midnightIf you’ve ever arrived late to the office, raise your hand!

And if you’ve ever gotten caught by your boss, maybe you’ve simply been honest and chalked it up to oversleeping or really bad traffic.

Well, if you’re among the 3,008 survey participants for a CareerBuilder poll, you’re sharing the most unique excuses revealed by your employees. Considering almost 25 percent of employees in the survey have admitted to being late at least one time a month, we bet there are plenty of excuses going around!

While traffic remains at the top of the list as to why employees say they’re late for work, lack of sleep ranked second on the list and then problems with public transportation, bad weather and dropping the kids off at school rounded out the list.

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