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Because there aren't enough Indiana Jones DVD threads...

How many of you either skipped work to buy or watch the Indy set yesterday?

Are there any upcoming releases (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Extended Edition, anyone?) that you've already put in for a vacation day for?

Just curious. I'll be the first to admit that I took off yesterday to go pick this up and watch Raiders. DVD holidays are few and far between, and after the LOTR films are all out on DVD (next Nov.) there won't be many other discs I'd be as excited about until the original Star Wars trilogy comes out sometime in 2030.

pdjennings

Tuesdays are all about the extended lunch-hour

BlackBeauty92

i'm a fan of movies just like the next geek.. guy i mean...

but i ain't gonna skip work just for DVD.... that would be moronic.

work = money = DVDs



but that just me though...

MoviePage

Only for LOTR EE's, nothing else.

EPKJ

I don't think it is rational to take off from work to buy or watch DVD's as it could cost one one's job. Having said that, I am an independent contractor and am able to watch DVD's at work whenever I like. I usually get in early and set up the office. Then I prep the computers and load updates. Then I sit down and watch a movie after first microwaving some popcorn. I can also come and go as I please, so I can make trips to purchase DVD's I really want. Of course, the fact that my employer is a close friend who also collects DVD's also helps.

Chew

Same here.

marty888

Take off work? Only if your DVDs are those self-destructing disposables about to explode....

Teknomaagi

Never.... always buy my DVD's online (cheaper).

steebo777

I'm always leaving on Tuesdays right around 10am. I just say I have a "quick errand to run". Nobody here gives a shit. Actually, when Indy came out everyone here was so excited to check out the packaging and to finally see this on DVD. I love my job

Bru

if you have a good job like I do, unlimited sick days work. people who dont take any sick days from work are the morons. keep working hard for a company that does not care about you, ya right! there is more to life than work....unless your poor. I work hard but im not gonna devote my life to a job. nothing wrong with taking sick days...as a matter of fact most jobs expect you to take atleast 5 a year. you dont take any you snooze you loose. unless you work retail you got to be pretty dumb not to use your sick days. save them though for days like these.

but I guess some of us have it better than others. 1 month and a half of vaca time is good too.

matome

Never

rockinghorse

If there is something I absolutly have to have I'll leave work early, or go out on my lunch break.

I don't like missing days, so whenever I can avoid it I do.

Bandit03

I skip class or laeve early jsut about every Tuesday. I figure its better to get my DVD's than to sleep

shill66

I too am a true believer in the Tuesday extended lunch break.

Star Wars Guy

Or the 'early' lunch hour. I spend less time running out, getting the DVD(s), and getting back then people I work with spend on their smoke breaks.

Rammsteinfan

I just go whenever I want, thankfully I am on the road alot, and I just go home maybe an hour early or maybe not. I have all night to watch my new dvd goodness.

Josh H

I guess I sort of skipped work to watch them yesterday. I came back from atlantic city a day early (tuesday) but decided to still not go to work yesterday and pulled an Indy marathon.

But I just have a graduate assitantship and can pretty much work whenever I want as long as I get my work done and average 20 hours a week.

packaok

I don't "skip" work for DVD releases, per se. However, when an extra-special release comes along - like The Adventures of Indiana Jones - I take a vacation day... I also took a vacation day for Star Wars Episode II. I didn't for Episode I because my local Kmart broke street date and I wound up with it 6 days early.

I'll be taking a vacation day on 11/4 for Finding Nemo and Friends Season 5. These aren't nearly as special as Indiana Jones and Star Wars, but I have plenty of vacation days to spend before the end of the year... Why not enjoy them by spending quality time with some great DVD's?

Dacoops3

I don't think I have ever called out sick from work for DVD-related reasons, maybe once, but I skip class all the time to buy/watch DVD's.

GuessWho

Skip work? No.

But I DID take an extra 1/2 hour longer lunch on Tuesday to go home and test out the Indy set

TREX1993

My "normal" work hours are 10-7 so, since Best Buy opens at 10am, I usually get into work 15-20 minutes late on Tuesdays. But, considering I have run into my boss once in line, I don't ever feel too bad about it!

wordtoyamotha

gutwrencher

thats the great thing about owning a company. I make my slaves do all the work when I feel like it. I'd much rather sit and watch films...and make $ while doing it.

...and every other day is Tuesday for me.

The Bus

I might take a slightly longer lunch hour or come in later to get a DVD, but skip work to see a movie?

No thans.

The Nature Boy

I had planned to do it on the day Fear and Loathing Las Vegas: CC came out, but I actually found a mom and pop selling 3 weeks in front of street date for a discount price one night so that was sweet.

If and when we ever see the Goodfellas:SE, I'll probably make that an all day affair, and if I haven't landed the Taxi Driver or Raging Bull Laserdiscs(with Scorsese commentary) and those commentaries somehow made it to DVD in a SE, I'd probably bow out for them too.

About the only other thing on my list that I'd take the day for is PERHAPS Ikiru.

And it goes without saying, Dazed and Confused or Smokey and the Bandit SE's hit shelves, I might take the week off.