We have a new guy at work, been there about two months. He hadn't showed up at his usual time of 8am, I went to check my phone and had received a message from him on Facebook messenger, asking if i could tell the boss that he wouldn't be in for "personal reasons" and that he couldn't phone in cos his phone was broken. I replied that he needs to phone in somehow, but It took him 3 hours to reply. Everybody including the boss knows that he was up in Inverness for the weekend and was on holiday yesterday. He's got a lot of explaining to do, as it's a bit suss that he couldn't find another way of phoning in. Surely he could Have used someone else's, it went to a phonebox if need be.