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EA Encouraging Playing Hooky from Work?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the remember-that-gamers-work-two-jobs dept.

WebGangsta writes "Electronic Arts has proclaimed August 10th to be National Madden Vacation Day. Why? That's the day that MADDEN 2005 is being released, and they want everyone to stay home from work to play football all day. They've even gone so far as to publish fake jury duty summons and sick notes for you to give to your boss." I'd think the giant Madden logo on each form would be a dead giveaway, but they're still fun to print out and adorn your workspace with.

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  1. Reminds me of something by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 4, Funny

    a sig someone on a bbs had

    "Used up all my sickdays, calling in dead"

    Loved that one :D

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    1. Re:Reminds me of something by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      I used to have a coworker who would call in blind. "I just can't see coming in to work today..."

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  2. Rats by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    My boss reads Slashdot. Watch, that'll be the day I really am sick.

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  3. Calling sick august 10th? of course! by hsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    But that will not be for madden! It will simply be your 8th sick calling for doom 3 (aug 10 - aug 3 - weekends = 8)

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  4. Karma or very cool coincidence? by cmdrwhitewolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    With Madden 2004 coming out in the same month as DOOM 3, I *know* my >sports freak boss likely won't be in on that day - Can you say DOOM 3 LANPARTY?

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  5. The question is... by FortKnox · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... what will EA do if all THEIR employees call in sick???

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  6. How's this different from any other day? by bluemeep · · Score: 2, Funny

    The people I know that play Madden (or any other sports titles) never go to work anyway. They'd just look suspicious about it if they tried to give me an excuse other than "Dude, chill."

  7. You know it's going to happen by ALeavitt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone, somewhere, is going to try to pass one of these off on his boss. He will summarily be fired. He will sue EA for either coercing him to miss work or for providing what he thought was a valid excused. God bless the US legal system.

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  8. vacation day by linuxgnuru · · Score: 2, Funny

    My older brother's work is declaring November 9th a vacation because more than half of their employees will be "taking a sick day" to play Halo 2.

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  9. These things really work! by weeboo0104 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They've even gone so far as to publish fake jury duty summons and sick notes for you to give to your boss."

    I just gave one of these to my boss and he told me not to bother coming in the next day or the day after that. Isn't that awesome?!

    Oh...crap.

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