Employee lies about taking her sick dog to the vet to skip work, gets caught by coworkers when they realize the dog isn't real: 'She's definitely taken a lot of days off due to the dog'

We've heard of faking sick to get out of work, but faking a pet to get out of work is a whole new level of craziness.

We're all guilty of making up fake excuses to get out of work. You're "sick", you have to pick up your niece from school, you have an important family event you can't miss, etc, etc. However, the employee in today's topic took things too far, some might say. She always mentioned having a dog, using it to get out of many work events and miss days from the office for dog-related activities. One coworker found it strange that her dog always had the same face in every picture, and none of the pictures were clear. That's when they found out that the dog wasn't real at all. It was a realistic-looking stuffed animal that she passed off as a real pet.

Our main question is this: why? Why go so far to create an excuse to get out of work? Just Google a picture of a thermometer with a fever-like temperature like the rest of us. To go so far as to create a fake dog just seems… excessive. Maybe she has her reasons. She might have a weird pet that she's ashamed of, so she just tells everyone it's a dog because she doesn't want to reveal her secret. Or she just really likes lying.

Whatever her reason, it's not hurting anyone, so if it were us, we would leave this alone. We all have our reasons for missing work, and it's not nice to dig your nose into somebody's business when it doesn't conern you. Nobody likes a tattle-tale.

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My colleague is lying about having a dog!

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We've definitely seen “realistic-looking” stuffed animals before. But we would never mistake one for a real dog. Either she was very good at disguising these images, or everyone here just doesn't really care about her dog. Both might be true. But the real question is: what kind of dog? Did she actually buy a carrier for it? Did she take the lie that far just because?
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We're all guilty of lying to get out of work. It's just a natural thing that happens in the workplace. No one is faulting her for lying to get out of work, it's the way that feels so strange. Would you make up a fake child to get out of work? Probably not.
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