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Gamer Gets Off Work to Visit Liberty City
by Nick Breckon, Apr 24, 2008 12:48am PDT
With the Tuesday release of Grand Theft Auto IV looming, video gamers are already coming up with creative ways to ditch their day jobs for an impromptu vacation in Rockstar's Liberty City.
One Shacknews community member took the challenge quite literally, asking his employer for time off with this rather blunt excuse: "Spending a couple days in Liberty City with my cousin Niko Bellic."
As seen in the company books (left), the unwitting--or perhaps understanding--employer approved the virtual vacation in an instant, freeing paroxym up for a day of casual cruising and random violence.
Is your employer as forgiving, or will you be taking more extreme measures to avoid a long day at the office? Share your most creative excuse--or most improbable plan--to escape work on Tuesday in the comments below.
Picture, text, song--all are viable mediums to illustrate your future slacking. We'll choose our favorite answer, the winner receiving a PlayStation 3 copy of Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Call my boss in a frantic panic:
Me: "I just got carjacked man! Some Russian guy!"
Boss: "What?! Did you call the police?"
Me: "There was a cop right there, he started chasing after him! The Russian guy took off and ran over three pedestrians -- money was flying all over the place!"
Boss: "Money?"
Me: "Yeah! Like it flew out of their pockets, y'know?"
Boss: "But are you okay?"
Me: "I'm great. Picked up like $500!"
Boss: "But your car was stolen... and wait, what? You stole money from dead people?"
Me: "It was just lying there. It was going to disappear if I didn't pick it up. And don't worry about my car, it was an old piece of junk anyway, and my insurance will cover it."
Boss: "Okay... uhhh, so I guess you can't come in today?
Me: "Right. I'm stuck in Liberty City."
Boss: "Liberty Wha---"
*CLICK*
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Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself.
I've told you my name: that's The Who.
The Where: Could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cubical and being in prison.
The What is easy: Recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect act of truancy.
That's also The When.
As for The Why: Beyond the obvious entertainment motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can.
Which leaves us only with The How; and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/
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It's good being Dutch!!! :P
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...but I don't think I'd take a day off just to play a video game :-\
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I may not have the most imaginitive way to get out of work, but you better believe no one else will cost their company over 10 grand in order to do it!
Actually there is a TV here in my work unit, I could just bring my 360 if I wanted to, but this canadian DD would probably bitch about it
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I'll inform my boss (we're kinda like pals, talking on breaks and shooting the breeze before my shift starts) that I'm going to be spending all weekend in San Jose 'sitting the little tykes. Yeah, aunt and uncle needed a getaway, so who better than nephew David, right? Righto. I'll show him some pictures of the little cuties, yada yada. But then, tragedy will strike.
I'm going to go in Monday morning and claim to be feeling like Hell. Problem was, they had a little cold, and I caught it. I'll be droopy, sluggish in my work, cough cough, sputter... ugh. Finally I'll ask to go home a bit early. I'm just not feeling all that well. Come Tuesday morning, I'll send an email at, oh, 4am or so detailing my all-night war against this cold that finally cut me down with its finest warriors - General Sore Throat and Col. Coughing Fit.
It's going to be awesome brutal. ;(
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Thank you for the opportunity to work at McDonalds. I have learned a lot during my time here and believe it will greatly benefit me in my future endeavors. I truly appreciate your guidance and friendship during my time employed.
However, the time has come for me to move on. This letter is to formally announce my resignation from McDonalds as I have recently been offered a management position at a competitor, the Cluckin' Bell. My last day will be April 28th.
Unfortunately, I will be unable to help train a replacement after my last day, so please find one before that date if you would like my help.
Please let me know what I can do to make my final time here a productive experience.
Regards, but it's time for chicken,
Steve
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To be fair my boss had ok'd this request before reading the description and came over afterwards. He's no dummy.
"Two days off to play GTA?"
"Pretty much."
"So it's gonna be good eh?
"It's gonna own."
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im just naturally off the 29th to the 2nd on my rotation \m/
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wake up at 8.
leave a message on my bosses phone.
"I have a bad case of diarrhea, think i had bad sushi last night... if i ever get off the bowl ill call you later"
leave house at 9 to get gta4...
no one ever questions the severity of liquid shit.
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i miss one day and work piles up. not worth it imo...just extra work i have to take home on the weekend.
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I got this job specifically so I could have the day off when GTA4 comes out. Really.
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Are you shitting me??
My private time is my own, fuck you business.
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Too bad I've ruined it for myself by watching this guy play live for an hour:
http://www.justin.tv/sculay
He's not really doing missions though, just running around and exploring the world. It is very, very, very, very, very amazing.
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Midweek releases suck for that, unless you want to use up a lot of leave.
I will not show up for my classes after it comes out and i will not goto work until next week and when i am questioned as to why i neglected to show up to any of my responsibilities for the week after GTA4 came out i will spout this beautiful load of crap!
WELLL SINCE YOU ASKED i was walking to starbucks, and as i was daydreaming about new ways to increase my productivity in class and at work, i slipped on a wii-mote and fell into a gutter filled with garbage water in font of the starbucks. Unfortunately as i was standing up i happened to glance inside the strabucks to see some prick on his macbook air being rickrolled and by the transfer of rickrolling physics i was then rickrolled causing me to again loose my footing and fall into the street where i was subsequently hit by a stolen gamestop truck and was sent to the local hospital where i having been nursing my wounds waiting to get back to work.
and thats how i will get out of work and class.
pic @ http://shackpics.com/files/rickrollme_me5r0f2z3tmtllan8fz2.jpg
A friend told me yesterday, however, that he has a week off starting Monday, which he'll be spending redecorating his room and playing GTA4; He booked the week off five months in advance, as soon as he knew the release date.
X.x
https://www.photoshop.com/user/zackrowe
So I'm placing enormous virii into every single bobble-head in The Political Machine 2008 that will remain active all week. That's right. I'm giving bobble-head Obama and bobble-head McCain ( http://www.draginol.com/images/EarlyscreenshotsofThePoliticalMachine_F116/PM2008_Mar19_Screen8.jpg ) STDs from the STL.
so, in this thread state your xbox live/ ps3 gamer tag if you're taking the day off, so all of us slackers can blow each other up all day!
live!: busdriver3030
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lol, you can watch someone playing the game...LIVE! He seems to be afk now tho....he isn't moving.
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