Brewing Beer to take a day off? That is unheard of!
SomeRandomJagoff on
“He got an earache, man.” – probably some ancient Egyptian dude
RepresentingJoker on
I wish I could get a day off for brewing beer….
CannabisCookery on
How do they know that’s what it says?
peanutbutterwife on
He got to take time off to help his menstruating wife??? What the hell???
StaatsbuergerX on
I may be culturally biased here, but if I were the supervisor, I would accept brewing beer as a valid excuse for being absent from work.
Klimpatz on
His wife wife was expecting ovulation and he was expecting a stiff dick.
BillBob13 on
I suspect ‘brewing beer’ was acceptable because beer was drank instead of water a lot of the time, since river water, and particularly the Nile, has a lot of bacterial stuff in it that you wouldnt want to drink
radioactive_sharpei on
I’ve used the scorpion one way too much at work. They don’t believe me anymore.
BoomDOOMloomToom on
*return to work, or suffer my curse*
ChaoticForkingGood on
“Some asshole sold me bad copper.”
/yes, I know, wrong area, but still lol
weagle01 on
Imagine missing work and it being so egregious it’s literally carved into stone.
rottnzonie on
HR lady here to say excuses haven’t changed much over the millennia. I just had an employee call off work because his daughter was having her first period and apparently it was an all hands on deck family event. LOL
jinstewart on
They had to CARVE that shit into a damn STONE.
Hardcore HR teams back then!
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jeanpaulsarde on
Domestic violence was rampant in ancient Egypt
ProfessionalBag9505 on
Its interesting that there’s a debate around women getting time off during their period due to intense cramps and fatigue and general shitty feeling, but way back then the husband even got time off.
Thisbymaster on
They had better worker conditions than modern workers.
mfyxtplyx on
If there’s anything I’ve learned, if you are legimately stung by a scorpion, are brewing beer, and your wife is unexpectedly bleeding all in the same morning, only mention the scorpion or they won’t believe you.
derekgrr on
His wife was bleeding was a very provocative statement even by today’s standards
Test-Tackles on
I don’t know why but tablets that talk about super mundane daily life stuff are the coolest to me.
MrsPowers94 on
Sorry boss. Can’t come into work today. Wife is on her period.
Salmonman4 on
I remember reading these excuses in the manual of the city-builder-game Pharaoh, though I remember the beer-part referencing more about not being able to build a pyramid because of being hung-over
krombopulosmfart on
I once had one of my coworkers (who was an older man in his mid 60s) call in because he “ate too many chocolate covered almonds, couldn’t sleep and stayed up all night on youtube.”
limeypepino on
“The Scorpion Bit Him” the way this is worded makes me think it’s a euphemism for a hangover.
metal_maxine on
I wonder if there is a “pollution” angle to the “wife is bleeding” one. As in that menstruation would make her “unclean” for certain activities and, therefore, the husband has to perform them. The rules for making priests and priestesses “clean” for entering the sanctuary/ performing rituals etc mostly make sense (washing, washing some more, shaving everything) but the one against onions is a little baffling. Maybe the gods disliked bad breath.
[In the 19th Century, there was a (supposedly) debate in the British Medical Journal as to whether a menstruating woman’s touch would turn a ham rancid. The doctors concerned clearly never considered that their cook/maid etc was a menstruating female. Alternatively, they were indulging in debate just because they thought folk superstitions were funny and worth shit-posting about.]
Interesting_Pickle33 on
His wife was bleeding. Look at how bad cramps are without the chemicals women have to shove down their throat. They needed someone to tend to them, it is that hard.
Now some men expect women to share half of house expenses- lol!
Igotdaruns on
Could the HR department have found a more jagged rock slab to etch this on?
sekkiman12 on
shout out to the guy who stayed home for his wife.
guygreej on
You mean we lost the brewing days off. man our contracts hot nerfed.
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Same excuses used nowadays!
Brewing Beer to take a day off? That is unheard of!
“He got an earache, man.” – probably some ancient Egyptian dude
I wish I could get a day off for brewing beer….
How do they know that’s what it says?
He got to take time off to help his menstruating wife??? What the hell???
I may be culturally biased here, but if I were the supervisor, I would accept brewing beer as a valid excuse for being absent from work.
His wife wife was expecting ovulation and he was expecting a stiff dick.
I suspect ‘brewing beer’ was acceptable because beer was drank instead of water a lot of the time, since river water, and particularly the Nile, has a lot of bacterial stuff in it that you wouldnt want to drink
I’ve used the scorpion one way too much at work. They don’t believe me anymore.
*return to work, or suffer my curse*
“Some asshole sold me bad copper.”
/yes, I know, wrong area, but still lol
Imagine missing work and it being so egregious it’s literally carved into stone.
HR lady here to say excuses haven’t changed much over the millennia. I just had an employee call off work because his daughter was having her first period and apparently it was an all hands on deck family event. LOL
They had to CARVE that shit into a damn STONE.
Hardcore HR teams back then!
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Domestic violence was rampant in ancient Egypt
Its interesting that there’s a debate around women getting time off during their period due to intense cramps and fatigue and general shitty feeling, but way back then the husband even got time off.
They had better worker conditions than modern workers.
If there’s anything I’ve learned, if you are legimately stung by a scorpion, are brewing beer, and your wife is unexpectedly bleeding all in the same morning, only mention the scorpion or they won’t believe you.
His wife was bleeding was a very provocative statement even by today’s standards
I don’t know why but tablets that talk about super mundane daily life stuff are the coolest to me.
Sorry boss. Can’t come into work today. Wife is on her period.
I remember reading these excuses in the manual of the city-builder-game Pharaoh, though I remember the beer-part referencing more about not being able to build a pyramid because of being hung-over
I once had one of my coworkers (who was an older man in his mid 60s) call in because he “ate too many chocolate covered almonds, couldn’t sleep and stayed up all night on youtube.”
“The Scorpion Bit Him” the way this is worded makes me think it’s a euphemism for a hangover.
I wonder if there is a “pollution” angle to the “wife is bleeding” one. As in that menstruation would make her “unclean” for certain activities and, therefore, the husband has to perform them. The rules for making priests and priestesses “clean” for entering the sanctuary/ performing rituals etc mostly make sense (washing, washing some more, shaving everything) but the one against onions is a little baffling. Maybe the gods disliked bad breath.
[In the 19th Century, there was a (supposedly) debate in the British Medical Journal as to whether a menstruating woman’s touch would turn a ham rancid. The doctors concerned clearly never considered that their cook/maid etc was a menstruating female. Alternatively, they were indulging in debate just because they thought folk superstitions were funny and worth shit-posting about.]
His wife was bleeding. Look at how bad cramps are without the chemicals women have to shove down their throat. They needed someone to tend to them, it is that hard.
Now some men expect women to share half of house expenses- lol!
Could the HR department have found a more jagged rock slab to etch this on?
shout out to the guy who stayed home for his wife.
You mean we lost the brewing days off. man our contracts hot nerfed.
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