your biggest / best skive
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read a piece in the local rag earlier regarding truancy. had a bit of a chat in the office who did/didn't do it when at school and it seems like i win hands down. just wondered if anyone else was an epic skiver or has a good/funny skive related story - school or work.
for me, i managed an 8 week skive at the start of my second GCSE year and then 2-3 days thereafter whenever i felt like it. just couldn't be bothered going back to school after a fantastic summer so i feigned some sort of virus [coughed lots, looked weak, etc.] and managed to convince both my parents and GP that i should be off school
didn't mean to take so long off, just an extra week so i could piss about and finish a geography project i'd neglected. i just found that lazing around the house, watching sky and eating all my favourite foods was a far better prospect than sitting in boring lessons. ended up 'getting better' because daytime tv became mindnumbing and my dad noticed i had a project going on in the garage
now and then i couldn't be arsed with school [namely the half hour trek across muddy fields to get there] so i'd feign a slight relapse or other symptoms [my parents think i suffer migraines - i don't]. a note would duly be written for me to explain my abscence, which i'd trace using my lightbox and doctor the date according to how many additional days i'd skived that my parents were unaware of. they left for work at 8am so were non the wiser. teachers never questioned this or rang to check as i was a clever kid and never made any trouble.
school were still naturally worried about all this time off and offered me extra tuition and special consideration in exams. i turned it down out of guilt and because even then i thought GCSE's were a joke. still managed the best results in the school and among the top in our area. got an award from the school for my achievements and was never once questioned about the time i'd taken off [must have been 3mths easy over the course of the year].
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surely the PH miscreants have better stories?
for me, i managed an 8 week skive at the start of my second GCSE year and then 2-3 days thereafter whenever i felt like it. just couldn't be bothered going back to school after a fantastic summer so i feigned some sort of virus [coughed lots, looked weak, etc.] and managed to convince both my parents and GP that i should be off school
didn't mean to take so long off, just an extra week so i could piss about and finish a geography project i'd neglected. i just found that lazing around the house, watching sky and eating all my favourite foods was a far better prospect than sitting in boring lessons. ended up 'getting better' because daytime tv became mindnumbing and my dad noticed i had a project going on in the garage
now and then i couldn't be arsed with school [namely the half hour trek across muddy fields to get there] so i'd feign a slight relapse or other symptoms [my parents think i suffer migraines - i don't]. a note would duly be written for me to explain my abscence, which i'd trace using my lightbox and doctor the date according to how many additional days i'd skived that my parents were unaware of. they left for work at 8am so were non the wiser. teachers never questioned this or rang to check as i was a clever kid and never made any trouble.
school were still naturally worried about all this time off and offered me extra tuition and special consideration in exams. i turned it down out of guilt and because even then i thought GCSE's were a joke. still managed the best results in the school and among the top in our area. got an award from the school for my achievements and was never once questioned about the time i'd taken off [must have been 3mths easy over the course of the year].
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surely the PH miscreants have better stories?
When i was in year 11 i was one of the youngest as i'm born in July.
I used to sign days / afternoons off of school in the signing out book as "driving lessons". (Bearing in mind i'm 15).
Then we'd get changed to home clothes in the changing room, go down the pub or go to the cinema, go down the green play football, beach or whatever we felt like that day!
I used to sign days / afternoons off of school in the signing out book as "driving lessons". (Bearing in mind i'm 15).
Then we'd get changed to home clothes in the changing room, go down the pub or go to the cinema, go down the green play football, beach or whatever we felt like that day!
When I was in sixthform I couldnt stand the boredom of the geography lessons... so I didnt go to a single lesson all year....
That and... If I had a lesson period 1, and then a free 2nd... I wouldnt turn up for P1....just wonder in for the one lesson that was actually useful and then go home...
Continually told that if I didnt come into school on time I would be asked to leave.... they never did... lol
That and... If I had a lesson period 1, and then a free 2nd... I wouldnt turn up for P1....just wonder in for the one lesson that was actually useful and then go home...
Continually told that if I didnt come into school on time I would be asked to leave.... they never did... lol
early on in the 2nd year of 6th form I had an altercation with the school bully (he decided i wasnt allowed in the school car park... so i ran him over :-) )
was asked not to come back for the rest of the year but was allowed to take my a-levels
any regrets?.....nope, not really - had a few months doing sod all and still got into a fairly good uni at the end of it...just wish id been going a bit faster.
was asked not to come back for the rest of the year but was allowed to take my a-levels
any regrets?.....nope, not really - had a few months doing sod all and still got into a fairly good uni at the end of it...just wish id been going a bit faster.
Many years ago I did some temp work while still at tech. A mate and I were working for a company landscaping and removing overgrown weeds from outside a firms yard and there was another older guy working along with us.
This guy told us of how he worked in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast for 15 years and all he ever did was pick up a brush and walk the length of the dock and if questioned he was simply 'taking the brush to <insert random name here> down the other end of the dock'. When he got there, he would set down the brush and pick up a shovel or whatever and repeat this process. FOR 15 YEARS!! One Lazy mofo if you ask me.
This guy told us of how he worked in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast for 15 years and all he ever did was pick up a brush and walk the length of the dock and if questioned he was simply 'taking the brush to <insert random name here> down the other end of the dock'. When he got there, he would set down the brush and pick up a shovel or whatever and repeat this process. FOR 15 YEARS!! One Lazy mofo if you ask me.
DubberGti said:
Many years ago I did some temp work while still at tech. A mate and I were working for a company landscaping and removing overgrown weeds from outside a firms yard and there was another older guy working along with us.
This guy told us of how he worked in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast for 15 years and all he ever did was pick up a brush and walk the length of the dock and if questioned he was simply 'taking the brush to <insert random name here> down the other end of the dock'. When he got there, he would set down the brush and pick up a shovel or whatever and repeat this process. FOR 15 YEARS!! One Lazy mofo if you ask me.
That sounds more boring, and probably more tiring, than actually doing some work. Idiotic.This guy told us of how he worked in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast for 15 years and all he ever did was pick up a brush and walk the length of the dock and if questioned he was simply 'taking the brush to <insert random name here> down the other end of the dock'. When he got there, he would set down the brush and pick up a shovel or whatever and repeat this process. FOR 15 YEARS!! One Lazy mofo if you ask me.
Not long ago, in a previous posting with my current employer, I lived very close to work and worked with a large degree of autonomy. Used to drive in, just in time for the official start of work, then spend a couple of hours doing what little work I had to do, and making sure I was seen by those in a position of power above me, whilst 'bigging up' the work I had to do and how long it would take me. Then I would piss off home for lunchtime at the very latest, and spend the rest of the day doing more enjoyable things.
Got away with it for quite a while. Got caught out in the end, but it didn't have a detrimental effect on my career.
Got away with it for quite a while. Got caught out in the end, but it didn't have a detrimental effect on my career.
Many years ago I attended a Grammar school in Swaffham in Norfolk, which was two bus rides from home. If I got detention and missed the bus, I could hitch-hike (I said it was a long time ago), beating the second bus home, and pocket the fare that I should have paid.
I got detention quite often <grin>
Keith
I got detention quite often <grin>
Keith
during uni, i didnt attend any of the final year of a course in relation databases, simply down to the fact i had been creating them on my placement and learned to build them to a very high standard. Got called into the office and warned about the lack of attendance and was cheeky enough to have a bet with the tutor that i would get a high mark for the course (above a 70%)and not show myself up. Turned up to the practical exam and finished in half the time and walked out with 89% which was the highest in the year, I enjoyed turning up for the winnings.
Did the same on the optional course i needed to do in the final year which did not give me any credits to my final mark, the course, how to build a website, that was on the 4th year of a computing degree.
other ones that come to mind are not turning up for the first 6 weeks of the computing course due to them teaching us how to put the disk in the disk drive correctly (all for the international students) and other stuff, but in that case the tutor understood and sent us to the pub were he could find us.
Since working, I have thankfully never skived off at all.
Did the same on the optional course i needed to do in the final year which did not give me any credits to my final mark, the course, how to build a website, that was on the 4th year of a computing degree.
other ones that come to mind are not turning up for the first 6 weeks of the computing course due to them teaching us how to put the disk in the disk drive correctly (all for the international students) and other stuff, but in that case the tutor understood and sent us to the pub were he could find us.
Since working, I have thankfully never skived off at all.
homicide said:
Whilst working for a plastic injection moulding company, i was the main stores person, and so spent a large amount of time away from the factory, in 2 huuuge metal containers we used for storage. Of course, i had to keep checking stock levels, and re-ordering stock!!
haha reminds me of my apprentiship days. I spent six months in the companies stores department. We had a second floor where slow moving stock was kept and at the back nobody ever ventured so i built a bed from cardboard boxes. Our MD was a total petrol head and i found a huge box of old car mags dumped up there. Used to dissapear up there when couldnt be arsed. Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff