“Over the 280-day period covered by this 3,200-year-old ostracon, common excuses for absence include “brewing beer” and “his wife was bleeding.””
The tomb builders of Deir el-Medina had a manager logging every missed day. Brewing beer counted as a legitimate reason. So did a scorpion bite. Bosses have tracked absences for 3,200 years, and the only thing that changed is the software.