Dumb reasons co workers tell me they are going to be late.

Very few and far between do I get an good excuse as to why someone is late. The why's only matter to me because they are my relief and after 8 to 9 to sometimes 12 hours, I really want to go home, I love it here but I sometimes would rather be sleeping and I have other things to do outside of work that I want to do at a normal hour.

Today I get the adult excuse of "my alarm does not work when my phone does not have minutes".  This I have to say is a first for me.. I can't say anything other than "OK, I will see you when you get here".  Thinking all the while, WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING?  

The other 'excuses I have gotten are "I was up all night looking for a gerbil, and didn't get any sleep".  "I having an argument with my husband and I don't want to leave until I win"

I really do not want my co workers to come up with better excuses I just want them to get their butts to work. There is a girl that I have worked with for several years that re-leaves me in the morning.. She told me she finds any excuse to come in late, "that hour in the morning is so hard to do," I really want to scream at her "than why do you have that shift". where I work you can switch shift all the time, if you don't like the am there is always someone that will change with you and you can start working afternoons or midnight's,, its that easy..

I wish I was sleeping right now.