Ever called in sick *specifically* to play a video game?

[Super Laydock]

Calling in sick when your still able to "function" is lame.

Identifying with your job and employer is lame.

Yes, but that's obviously not the reason I think calling in sick unnecessary is lame if you read well.
Putting extra burden on coworkers is as far as I am concerned.
I despise people doing that to me as well and won't help them out if needed.
Tit for tat.

I don't feel the need to "earn" playing time or any other kind of time.

I never said that I felt the "need" to earn playing time. I just enjoy it better knowing I am not putting an extra burden on someone else.

[drboom]

I skipped school for the first time the week that I got the first Final Fantasy for the NES. I think I was 12 or 13. I also had my first beer - an MGD Genuine Draft. Fucking horrible tasting at that age.
Strangely enough, it happened to be the same day that my Dad got a big promotion and my Mom called the school to take me out and let me know we were going to move to Chicago. She found out I wasn't there and called my friends house where I happened to be. She wasn't all that mad as I was a good student. Kinda dodged a bullet.
Second time I skipped school was to go into downtown Chicago and play Battletech at Navy Pier during the week with a bunch of guys from the football team (I was a bit of a jock in my younger days). Pretty awesome.

[Jockel]

Calling in sick when your still able to "function" is lame.

Identifying with your job and employer is lame.

I'd say that highly depends on the job.
I work part-time for a good friend, and i try to not let him down.
Although i have to admit it's kinda hard to overcome lazyness when coming home from my "university of applied sciences" or whatever "Fachhochschule" is called in english

[escadrille]

Calling in sick when your still able to "function" is lame.

Identifying with your job and employer is lame.

Yes, but that's obviously not the reason I think calling in sick unnecessary is lame if you read well.
Putting extra burden on coworkers is as far as I am concerned.
I despise people doing that to me as well and won't help them out if needed.
Tit for tat.

So you don't call in sick because you don't want to give other people extra work, yet you refuse to do extra work when other people who call in sick. Sounds like you've already solved this little quandary.

I don't feel the need to "earn" playing time or any other kind of time.

LEARN TO READ!
Reading and understanding what you read are 2 different things I know, but come on.

You said:

Playing after work feels like you earned playing time and is thus more satisfying to me.

Playing the "you can't read" card is baseless here. It is obvious that I am simply stating a contrary opinion.

[dpful]

I stayed home "sick" from jr. high school when I got my Genesis. And also when Strider came out for it.

[KindGrind]

Up until university, I had never skipped a single day of school. Needless to say, I did some catch up... When you realize you can avoid going to all classes and still get decent grades you start doing the math. As for calling sick at work, that's another story. I tend to keep my "sick" days for when my child is actually sick. That said, my not being at work doesn't give more work to my coworkers at all. If anything, it gives work to people that wouldn't have any otherwise.

[Ozymandiaz1260]

i have sick days.....they dont roll over from year to year.....i rarely get sick....so i generally just call in sick occasionally and stay home and do what i do at home....play games and read up on what you lot have to say

My sick days don't rollover either, but I still get paid for them when I don't take them. Like, say I have two weeks of sick time and I never used it... the last two weeks of the year I'll get paid for four weeks. Same for vacation time. I know I worded that kind of oddly, but hopefully you catch my drift. Does your employer not do that for you?

You know, even when I did feel a bit under the weather (back in the day) my mom was always like, "No, you're fine. Get ready for school." I had to be in excruciating pain, puking or something of that nature (near death) to get out of school.

Isn't that how it is for most people? I don't know anybody who skips work/school just because they have the sniffles

Calling in sick when your still able to "function" is lame.
Most often you pass a burden onto your coworkers who haven't asked for that.

Not everybody has a position that just anybody can do. Whenever I take days off I come back to a big pile of work because I'm the only one who can do it. However, if I got a bunch of extra work to do and I knew it was because somebody wanted to play video games instead of doing their job, I guess I'd probably consider it pretty 'lame' too.

Identifying with your job and employer is lame.

Only if you have a shitty job and a shitty employer. Some people take pride in their jobs, you know

Fucking horrible tasting at that age.

MGD tastes fucking horrible at any age, haha.

Strangely enough, it happened to be the same day that my Dad got a big promotion and my Mom called the school to take me out and let me know we were going to move to Chicago. She found out I wasn't there and called my friends house where I happened to be.

Wow, that's quite the coincidence, especially with it being your first time and all. If that happened to me my mom would have been all like "be sure your sins will find you out" with a big smug look on her face and then she'd talk to me about God for the rest of the day. I'm really glad I moved out, lol.

[escadrille]

Identifying with your job and employer is lame.

Only if you have a shitty job and a shitty employer. Some people take pride in their jobs, you know

True, though I think they are making a mistake. Perhaps it is different if you are working for a friend or family or something, but loyalty to a company is misplaced.

[Ozymandiaz1260]

Identifying with your job and employer is lame.

Only if you have a shitty job and a shitty employer. Some people take pride in their jobs, you know

True, though I think they are making a mistake. Perhaps it is different if you are working for a friend or family or something, but loyalty to a company is misplaced.

Well, even though I'm not religious, I work at a Christian radio station that's involved in a lot of community outreach type stuff and is non-profit, meaning we don't play commercials or get any sort of revenue from any of the programming we air... it's all run on 100 percent donations, so yeah, I guess it is different for me. I'm sure if I worked for Wal-mart or AT&T or some place like that I wouldn't give a fuck...

[Super Laydock]

Identifying with your job and employer is lame.

Yes, but that's obviously not the reason I think calling in sick unnecessary is lame if you read well.
Putting extra burden on coworkers is as far as I am concerned.
I despise people doing that to me as well and won't help them out if needed.
Tit for tat.

So you don't call in sick because you don't want to give other people extra work, yet you refuse to do extra work when other people who call in sick. Sounds like you've already solved this little quandary.

Reading back I suppose I should have made my view more clear by replacing the words "extra burden" by "unnecessary burden"
If any of my coworkers who's always there for the "team" needs me to fill in for them or do some extra, I am always there and they know it.
The few people calling in sick whenever they just as much as cough, I am not so keen to help them out.

[escadrille]

Only if you have a shitty job and a shitty employer. Some people take pride in their jobs, you know

True, though I think they are making a mistake. Perhaps it is different if you are working for a friend or family or something, but loyalty to a company is misplaced.

Well, even though I'm not religious, I work at a Christian radio station that's involved in a lot of community outreach type stuff and is non-profit, meaning we don't play commercials or get any sort of revenue from any of the programming we air... it's all run on 100 percent donations, so yeah, I guess it is different for me. I'm sure if I worked for Wal-mart or AT&T or some place like that I wouldn't give a fuck...

Actually if I had your job I would go out of my way to harm my employer and the company, but I understand what you mean. If you feel like your ethics and ideals are reflected in the company you work for you would be more inclined to identify with that company. This is precisely the feeling that companies try to encourage in their employees to create loyalty.

Actually no you're reading things in my words that I didn't state.
Especially the "need" part in your previous post seems to confirm that.
But maybe you had a slip of tongue as well.

Is there some way you can frame our disagreement that doesn't characterize me as illiterate?

Playing after work feels like you earned playing time and is thus more satisfying to me.

I don't feel the need to "earn" playing time or any other kind of time.

What is the problem?

[jonny5]

i have sick days.....they dont roll over from year to year.....i rarely get sick....so i generally just call in sick occasionally and stay home and do what i do at home....play games and read up on what you lot have to say

My sick days don't rollover either, but I still get paid for them when I don't take them. Like, say I have two weeks of sick time and I never used it... the last two weeks of the year I'll get paid for four weeks. Same for vacation time. I know I worded that kind of oddly, but hopefully you catch my drift. Does your employer not do that for you?

my vacation days roll over for the 1st 3 months of the next year....but if i dont use up sick days they are gone at the end of the year....

considering im paid hourly(used to be salary) its kind of a perk to have sick days at all, so i cant really complain

[Fenrir]

I voted no because it's not exactly that. But I did it once.
In the year 2000, I skipped an entire semester at the uni (right before the summer break, I might add) to play Ultima Online.

So there well mmorpgs were fairly a novelty back then and I was totally engrossed.

[PainAmplifier]

I've never called in sick or taken a day off to play a game...but I've come in half dead from lack of sleep due to playing games more than a few times.

Granted there hasn't been a game good enough to keep me up that late in recent memory so the chances of it occuring again aren't that high. I've also learned to pace any hot game buying and to start new games on the weekends instead of the week nights as well....