Planning to be absent on May 19?

[heidi]

In a gesture of semi-perverse hope, BestBuy's Geek Squad has created a template for absentee excuse notes for work and school for use on/regarding May 19, 2005.

Comments

[shelaghc.livejournal.com]

Damn - we needed something like this when LotR - RotK came out!

One cool thing about my boss: he's a trekkie so when Trilogy Tuesday was announced and I told him I was going, he had not problem with it at all.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I worked for a trekkie a few years ago, and he gave me off the day PS/SS came out which allowed me to get to orlando to see it with other potterfans.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

I've never had a full day off for a movie, but we had more than one office-sanctioned (and PAID-FOR) trip to the movies -- I think we paid for The Matrix: Revolutions and HP ourselves, but the Lord of the Rings office treks down to the Cinerama were paid for by our department bosses. And then I got to see PotC and The Incredibles on the company tab, too. It was, on occasion, a very good place to work. ;)

(In the old days, we actually had our all-company meetings at the movie theater down the hill. We'd have the meeting, then watch a movie. I missed the Shakespeare in Love meeting because I was still an intern, but went for Austin Powers....)

[shelaghc.livejournal.com]

When I interviewed for this job, I included writing samples - one of which was a press release I'd created for a Star Trek club. Jeff read it through from beginning to end then started talking about trek. Turned out that the week before he started working here there was a TNG marathon on some cable channel. He spent the entire week glued to the tube. *g*

We talked at least five minutes about trek. I found out later from the agency that sent me there that mine was the longest interview they'd arranged. I wouldn't be surprised if having trek in common was the determining factor for me getting the job.

;->

Fandom can have its perks, eh?