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.