Take Back Your Time!

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 24, 2003 @06:45AM from the start-with-the-hour-on-sunday dept.

pycnanthemum writes "Today is national Take Back Your Time Day. Boston.com has a story about it, it's a Seattle-based movement to get overworked Americans to value the non-material parts of their lives. When I read the article I thought of a lot of techies I know."

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Obligatory... by DarkBlackFox · 2003-10-24 06:46 · Score: 3, Funny

"You took 4 minutes of my life and I want them baaaaaack!! ....oh I'd only waste them anyway."
It's my time! by phraktyl · 2003-10-24 06:48 · Score: 4, Funny

And I'll take it back when my boss and the schedule say I can!

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Coincidence? by uberdave · 2003-10-24 06:48 · Score: 4, Funny

That very episode was on last nigh... Oops, does watching Simpsons count as wasting time?

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Re:Woopie by dang-a-pin · 2003-10-24 06:49 · Score: 2, Funny

"It leads to growing neglect and abuse of pets. " Apparently Fluffy cares, and she's gonna break out the can on your pants the next time you VNC into the office.
Not going to happen by MacFury · 2003-10-24 06:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Get Americans to value non-material things? Are you out of your damned mind?
That's just letting the terrorists win...isn't it?
I tried taking my time back by dogfart · 2003-10-24 06:55 · Score: 4, Funny

But my employer called security and had me arrested for theft.
Seems there was this clause in my contract concerning ownership of my soul...

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Re:No one took your time in the first place. by DWIM · 2003-10-24 07:00 · Score: 2, Funny

A lot of people have escaped from the 'rat race' to start farms out in the boonies, backpack around the world, or live as a family out on the ocean waves.
And none of them are reading this right now.
Timeliness of the Article... by Pii · 2003-10-24 07:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Nice job, Boston Globe, and Slashdot...
Rather than telling us ahead of time, the Boston Globe informs us of this event on the day it is to occur.
To add insult to injury, Slashdot picks up the story, and runs it at about 3:00pm Eastern time, so that we east coasters have already put in the days work by the time we find out about it.
With a little advanced warning, maybe some of us would have been able to attend some of these events, or at a minimum, skipped work today on principle.
I'd like to see a "Slashdot Skip-Day," like back in high school. Watch the world grind to a halt when those of us that keep it running take a day off simultaneously!
(Actually, if we've all been doing our jobs correctly, everything would work fine in our absence... That's kind of scary too. Back to work I go...)

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Take back your time every day... by Anonymous+Crowhead · 2003-10-24 07:13 · Score: 4, Funny

...by adding this to your /etc/hosts file:

0.0.0.0 slashdot.org
Re:Nine weeks more work? That's good! by sharkey · 2003-10-24 08:04 · Score: 2, Funny

So Americans work nine more weeks than Europeans. America's also more successful than the EU and those who choose to work hard in America enjoy a higher standard of living.
Damn straight! I'm $120,000 in debt right now. No way I could have that in the EU, it'd be 150,000+ pounds, or euros, or francs or some other such non-dollar amount. How the hell would I know what I'm not worth if the debt I'm drowning in is not measured in dollars?

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