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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?
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.
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."
- $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.
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.
That should be "too stupid to NOT see"...
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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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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.'