[Help] ‘Unauthorised absence’

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Sounds like your boss is being unsympathetic but the lack of sleep is down to your decision. Your boss saw it that you had 6 hours to get 15 milesCycle, train, lift from friends family, bus, even walking would have been options. If this is your first indiscretion suck it up and move on. It is a shame as you have been honest, you could have pulled a sickie.

This (bit in bold above). Wouldn't be THAT much of unreasonable employer to come to the conclusion that employee was a bit of an unreliable tvvat