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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. Why would you do this? by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When Sega Sports ESPN NFL 2k5 is already out and the superior game?

    1. Re:Why would you do this? by Rethcir · · Score: 2, Informative
      Only in MP.. they're patchin it. Single player is great.

      By the way, I'm trying to see if i can hook up my xbox to my PC (windows xp) so I can get on xbox live. I have an Intel Anypoint 10mbps phoneline network card(aka Broadcom iLine - really flaky drivers on XP unfortunately) which i use to connect to my downstairs computer and then to a DSL connection, and an ethernet port on my mobo which i'd like to use to connect to the xbox. Any ideas on how to configure the ethernet port to connect to the xbox and share the connection with the phoneline network? I tried setting up a network bridge, but it didn't seem to work, and I tried setting the phoneline card to "share internet connection" but that didn't work either. I'd rather not get a router re-wire my house if i could avoid it.

    2. Re:Why would you do this? by EddieBurkett · · Score: 2, Insightful
      When Sega Sports ESPN NFL 2k5 is already out and the superior game?
      Well, you don't know its the superior game until you've played Madden, do you?

      I'll concede that 2K5 is probably the better game. I have that and Madden '04, and I think Madden will be hard pressed to prove itself better this year.

      But unless 2K5 is much worse than Madden (which I would say is impossible), how can you justify spending $50 + for Madden vs. $20 for ESPN? The only way I can think its worth it is if you are THAT excited about XBox live, or THAT excited about all the perks of the Anniversary Edition, or you're just a biased Madden fanboy.

      The best thing about the price of ESPN 2K5 is that some vendors are selling it for less than $20. I got it at Target for $15.88, I heard Circuit City will be selling it for
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  3. Rats by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. I just called EA by Foo2rama · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know what I just called over there and it seems that almost everyone is at work... POSERS!!!

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

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

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  8. 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."

  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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