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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?"
...so I guess I'll pick up your slack AGAIN!
What self-respecting SW fan still has a JOB? They're all in line already. The loss will be negligible. There might even be a net increase in productivity.
No gods, no demons, and no masters. Secular Humanism!
Star Wars Episode III will also consume 38.75% of the total available Internet bandwidth once a 1337 CAM is torrented.
I know what you're thinking. Did I forward 65,535 packets or 65,536 packets?
...that they got the title of the movie wrong?
all the gamers who don't go will get 20ms pings :D
That's a pathetic excuse. I'm just quitting.
No seriously, cheap plastic swords made in China are probably more than sufficient to keep anyone who would steal a ticket to Star Wars at bay.
English is easier said than done.
Where do you live again?.... :)
you weren't born in this country were you? (American, Canada)
There's a country called American?
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
dude, your sig is awesome, either that or you should really take a look at your sig cause Mike fuckin hates you.
Frylock: "We should have cloned twenties, Jackson wouldn't have given a fuck."
Probably most employees particularly Star Wars fans, are not a net contributor to their companies. Likely the big sickout will save these companies money rather than hurt them.
- $628,880,000
Projected economic losses from rioting if it has Jar Jar in it:- $843,111,644.77
Projected economic losses from decreased self-esteem when people realize they got lured into paying to see this one, too:Find free books.
I sense a disturbance in the labor force. Its as if a million people all called in sick.
God spoke to me.
Download your official Star Wars Excuse Note to give to your employer / school / etc.
Pffft. They're assuming that any of us were productive to begin with. Judging by the sheer volume of posts on Slashdot these days, productivity is a pipe dream.
I think that firewalling Slashdot would wipe out any financial losses caused by geeks taking time off to see Episode III.
Then again, we're taking a work sponsored outing to see the movie. heh.
"...they don't even realize that probably *half* the showtimes are *after* work hours. I know a lot of people that are catching the Thursday or Friday evening of the show. Granted, there is a hit to production, but it's nowhere *near* the figure they speculate in the article."
Dammit Jinsaku, you make an excellent point. Perhaps the lost productivity is not from people taking time off from work to see it, but instead using their work time to post on Slashdot when they *should* be unclogging that problem crapper in the ladies room.
Do I have to spell it out to you, Jinsaku? We're experiencing our own "Return of the Shit" (or "Revenge", whatever) in the john. Now take care of it.
Sincerely,
Your Boss
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
Ah! You're French. That explains the lack of productivity and willingness to take unnecessary days off.
because I'm normally just browsing the web at work anyways, so the net loss in productivity will be $0
"But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong" - Dennis Miller
(and please, please, don't suck.)
The funny thing is, most of the time my begging is for exactly the opposite...
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Good feminists get abortions? The world would be a better place if their mother's had.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Why do we measure things with money?
Because money is fungible.
Is money God?
Yes, see above. But, God is not fungible so God is not money.
Is money happiness?
Yes, see above. But, happiness is not fungible so happiness is not money.
Or is money just something the rich dangle to make the poor jump through hoops??
Yes, see above. But, poor jumping through hoops are not fungible, so poor jumping through hoops is not money.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Bet you my lightsaber's bigger than yours...
That should be "too stupid to NOT see"...
] D
Or religious holidays. Or the first "beach day" of summer. Or when Lynard Skynard/Rolling Stones comes to town and all the baby boomers try to squeeze into blue jeans they bought 25 years ago. Or hang-over day after cinco de mayo. Or April 20th.
Oh wait, the double standard.
Picking on geeks is easy. Picking on religion, the boomers who run business, and minorities isn't. Its like the New York Post is high school all over again.
It's okay. Most of the IT staff at the company I work for think there are too many managers and executives.
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He wasn't the only one to fall in the pit...
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. --Edith Sitwell
AH! I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE! You capitalized on the whole "Slashdot reader is a fat lonely nerd that lives in the basement" cliche. Boy, you are something else!
At least this is going to be better than the first two. They were so bad that I had to take the *next* day off sick just to recover.
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
I sense a disturbance in the work force, although a million geeks all called in sick, then suddly turned off there mobiles.
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
Yeah, they scrambled up the last three letters.
" Challenger estimates that 4.8 million of those opening-day attendees are employed at least 35 hours per week. With those full-timers earning an average of $130.60 per day, the two-day cost in terms of lost wages and productivity would be a staggering $626,880,000, he said."
How much of this is from people taking the holidays they are entitled to?
What next? "Going to church on Sundays loses Business $3,289,044,353,967 per week!" ?
Every second that a person is not working his ass off for an employer is "lost productivity" ? ? ?
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MadDwarf
After you've finished watching the latest Star Wars abomination and realize that not only did you pay for it, but you could have spent the time sleeping or maybe recreating that crazy nail scene in Blade Runner on your own hand just for fun, you're bound to feel sick, so it makes perfect sense to take sick leave.
--- What?
As per subject.
Now you don't need to take a day off! It's good for us casual workers who don't get sick leave.
Is the sickout for the day that Star Wars premiers, or for the day AFTER everyone has already seen it?