What's the best excuse you ever gave for being late for work?
A new CareerBuilder.com study found that more than a quarter (26 per cent) of workers admit to being tardy at least once a month, and 16 per cent are late once a week or more. </br>Paul Vasarhelyi/Getty Images/iStockphoto
The survey found that traffic was the most common excuse employees (31 per cent) give as a reason why they are late. Other excuses include sleeping in, having to drop off the kids at daycare or school, bad weather and public transportation delays. </br> But there are some pretty outrageous excuses employees gave for why they are late. Here are the top ones.</br>Polina Nefidova/Getty Images/iStockphoto
An employee dropped her purse into a coin-operated newspaper box and couldn’t retrieve it without change (which was in the purse).</br>Darryl Dick/The Globe and Mail
An employee accidentally left the apartment with his roommate’s girlfriend’s shoes on and had to go back to change.</br>Peter Power/The Globe and Mail
An employee’s angry wife had frozen his truck keys in a glass of water in the freezer.</br>Miranda Zeegers/Getty Images/iStockphoto
An employee got a late start because she was putting a rain coat on her cement duck in her front yard (because rain was expected later that day).</br>Bernd Klumpp/Getty Images/iStockphoto
An employee’s car wouldn’t start because the breathalyzer showed he was intoxicated.</br>Laura Leyshon/The Globe and Mail
An employee attempted to cut his own hair before work and the clippers stopped working, so he had to wait until the barber shop opened to fix his hair.</br>Jupiterimages
An employee’s car was attacked by a bear (he had photographic evidence).</br>Hnin Khine/Getty Images/iStockphoto
An employee drove to her previous employer by mistake.</br>Jupiterimages/Getty Images
An employee claimed to have delivered a stranger’s baby on the side of the highway.</br>Kati Molin/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Do you have a great excuse for being late for work that you heard, used yourself or your employee used? Tell Globe Careers! </br> E-mail us at careerquestion@globeandmail.com or leave a note in the comments section. We’ll compile and post them.</br>Gert Vrey/Getty Images/iStockphoto