MOST Black Country bosses spit feathers when one of their workers calls in sick on a Monday morning.

So when a group of Stourbridge mates phoned their superiors to tell them they were thousands of miles away in Spain this week, they feared they could be in for the sack.

After a boozy Friday night out in Stourbridge, Matt Weyman, of Wall Heath, and three of his pals decided to catch an impromptu flight to Malaga.

Knowing they would not be back in time for work on Monday morning, they made the dreaded phone calls to their bosses.

Speaking to The Stourbridge News, Matt said: “Luckily I work as a salesman for my dad, so when I called him up to tell him I won’t be at work this week he was actually fine with it.

“However, my mate called his boss on Saturday and he made him do a sales pitch over the phone otherwise he’d have been sacked.”

The 23-year-old said the last-minute plans only came about because one of the friends brought his passport to use as ID to get into a club.

He said: “When we were getting a taxi home, the driver asked us where we wanted to go and we jokingly told him to take us to the airport.

"One of my mates brought his passport along to use as ID to get into ‘Chicago’s’, so we said it as a joke, but it all escalated from there.

“Two of us had to go back to our houses to get our passports and one mate even had to go into his parent’s room to get his.

“When they asked what he needed it for he told them he was ‘going to Matt’s’ and when they found out where we were the next day they weren’t best pleased.”

The trip to Spain has not been all smooth sailing for the ‘gift-of-the-gab’ salesman, as he ended up paying twice for the flights after a mobile phone mix-up.

He said: “We booked tickets for the flight in the taxi on the way to the airport, but I bought tickets for Sunday morning, rather than Saturday.

“When we got to the airport I asked Monarch if we could swap flights but they told us we would have to pay for new tickets.

“So in the end a £80 one-way flight cost us £160.”

The news of the lads escapades broke earlier this week and Matt said he was “extremely confused” when he work up on Tuesday morning to a barrage of calls and messages.

“My phone had been going mad,” he said. “I’ve spoken to so many people and found it all over the internet.

“We never thought when we first did it that it would create so much attention – it’s been crazy.”

Two of Matt’s friends, Adam Holloway and Jack Gough, returned home before the weekend was through, but Matt is still in Marbella with fellow pal Dan Griffiths until next Tuesday.

Matt added: “One of my mates who went home early on Friday night didn’t find out about it till Saturday, but he doesn't want to miss out so is now flying out to meet us.”