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Star Wars Sickout
Brahmastra writes "The New York Post reports that it will cost employers $628,880,000 in lost productivity on the first two days of Star Wars Episode III - Return of the Sith . How many of you are planning to skip at least part of your workday on the first two days?"
Hey, you think your house is cool?
Yes, we want to drink, have sex and smoke pot. That's the drive that keeps us working...
You're just bitter cuz you didn't use a condom and now you can't drink anymore, can't smoke pot anymore, and most definitely ain't gettin' any sex anymore (sex after kids? don't make me laugh).
Yeah, but this is slashdot. If it isn't actively burning wealthy owners to death, selling their women and childern into slavery, and using the money to fund the INternational Socialist Org, then it's a right-wing conspiracy ;)
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
I'm really tired of parents who justify their behaviors by saying "but I'm doing society a favor by continuing the human race!".
Drop the bullshit. You are not more productive or dedicated or intelligent or valuable, just because you couldn't keep your legs together or you were too lazy to slip on a condom. You never sat down and thought to yourself "I think I'm going to impregnant someone this week and do the world a favor, because I'm such a wonderful and altruistic human being".
You know god damn well that you just knocked it out one night and the condom broke or you were in too much of a hurry to bother with protection or your girlfriend lied about being on the pill and you wound up with an "accident". And now you're stuck dealing with it and try to cover for it by assuring yourself that you're somehow a saint for being a parent. That you now have some greater purpose and that everyone who isn't a parent is somehow a parasite.
My observation is that the less responsible and more impulsive someone is in life, the more likely they are to have children. And if they are irrespoonsible and impulsive in their personal life, they'll probably be that way at work.
And the reason your "single friends" are probably always late when they come to meet you is because they were procrastinating; dreading having to hang out with you AND your two annoying bastards.
Such a fine post wasted in reply to that tard. I agree with you completely.
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Anyone else remember the Halo 2 Flu back in November? This is much like that. Hell, my teacher (Sci-Fi/Satire....of course he's a SW fan) is taking off for a personal day, as well as a bunch of others, but he's the one that's made the front page of the paper for Episodes I and II because he was dressed up as Darth. What a huge loser he is... it almost makes me feel sorry for him, but he's the role model for nerd, geeks, and dorks everywhere: he's married with two kids and he has a job....hmmm. You might not believe it but it's true!! LOL. Right, so all of us..ermm...."cooler" nerds that took off a few days because of the contagious and uncurable Halo 2 Flu are going to know how it feels to *gasp* work while the other people are busy making shrines and devoting all of their time to their obsessions. Oh, what a sad, sad, sad world. ///
Is a Junior in HS, and a girl, so I should have no right to speak, let alone skip for the Halo 2 Flu, but I did...lol