There's quite a lot of history and context to this request but I'm going to keep it barebones due to the industry I'm in. Every few months, we have a committee meeting after hours (think 6pm – 8pm) with several important representatives of note. There's roughly 5 attendees from my team, 3 (including myself) in similar roles to myself – and we essentially give an introduction on who we are, what we look after and then take notes, which are compiled a day or two later.
Quite frankly, I don't want to attend. I'm over these meetings and I've been burned out by a job where I've been put into a ridiculous situation. I can go into the reasons, the history but best not to.
So the meeting is in 3 days. They do provide you time-in-lieu and a simple, I don't want to won't cut it here. So need a reason. Anything medical will require a doctors cert – so no go there. For reference, parents are still alive, sister has kids, I don't drive (which work knows about) and it needs to be something that has come up in the next day or so (currently it's the weekend here). So for example, one reason may be, I need to babysit my sisters kids, as she is working nights and my parents, who usually do it, are sick.
Honestly go wild. I just want to get out of this bloody meeting. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.