The Daily Grind: Taking a personal day due to frostbite?

by Seraphina Brennan Nov 12th 2008 at 8:00AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind

Massively readers, you may lie to your bosses, but we here at the blog know that you're really not going to be sick tomorrow. You're going to have your hands glued to your keyboards, because you'll be up all night playing World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King for a span of time that is probably considered unhealthy.

The question is though, how many of you faithful readers are going to be taking this "MMO personal day?" Plus, we want the details if you're going to go for the gold. How are you going to do it? Are you going to go for the fabrication of sickness? Are you just going to call in one of your personal days and be totally honest? Or are you going to dodge school using some Ferris Bueller tricks? Comment away, dear readers. Comment away.

Tags: blizzard, day-off, discussion, ferris-bueller, midnight-launch, sick, sick-day, the-daily-grind, world-of-warcraft, wotlk, wrath-of-the-lich-king

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Wjowski said on 8:03AM 11-12-2008

That's assuming they can get the servers back up in time.

kaelendra said on 2:56PM 11-12-2008

at this point they really should let everyone access lich king for 48 hours without their access keys so if they're waiting for a delivery on thursday daytime or can't get it till the store opens cause no midnight opening they can still start right off.
not that i can play it yet myself... highest char is 50 though i've got my copy reserved to pick up on thursday daytime!

Havok said on 8:41AM 11-12-2008

i have a feeling i'm really going to be sick. All over my desktop. :(

Mithrias - EU said on 9:29AM 11-12-2008

Well, a bunch of my mates are taking the "cough cough, hello i'm too sick to come to work" path.

But i am lucky enough to have some vacation leave left this year, and i'll be taking tomorrow and friday off to make sure i get a good head start :)

FTW!

T said on 9:58AM 11-12-2008

Har. You're talking about a game that experienced a good 4 or 5 days of either no servers available or really spotty activity that left people trapped in loading screens, BGs and dungeons.

Then, yesterday, in what Blizzard swears was normal maintenance, mail gets lost, and the servers are again down for the entire day and much of the night for most people. They come back up, and suddenly some PvP gear is available for free, and the servers go right back down again.

And I'm supposed to take off work under the assumption WoW will even be remotely playable tomorrow? Or Friday? I think not. Bailing on work might better be saved for sometime next week.

Belial said on 10:20AM 11-12-2008

I don't know if it would be considered lucky or not that I've contracted bronchitis this week or not. I mean yeah I'll get to play WotLK, but that'll only be in between coughing my lungs up.

John said on 10:22AM 11-12-2008

I'll be home for sure..hehe...already said I have a dentist appointment...but I'm waiting on my overnite delivery from Gamestop (I HATE Gamestop) to arrive on Friday...so Friday is MY day. Hurray!! So exciting.

Also...great Bueller graphic....That movie is classic!

Fierdogg said on 10:37AM 11-13-2008

The key is not thur...the key is Friday! Seriously, the servers will not last long on Thursday once people do start coming home, but if you wait till Friday a large amount of headaches will be over with ready for that great call in sick.

Jeni said on 10:40AM 11-12-2008

I have the CE being delivered to me tommorrow morning, but I will be at work....and I will be at work on Friday as well. I remember lag with BC... And no matter how much I wanna hit Northrend, the thought of competing with everyone and their mother on quest kills... Nope. Nooooo Way.

I'll wait til this weekend or next week. I might actually level some in Netherstorm....since I never touched it.

Fooliecoolie said on 11:03AM 11-12-2008

Well since I couldn't get to go to Blizzcon, I just used a couple of vacation days so I don't have to lie.

Syme said on 11:04AM 11-12-2008

In all honesty, I may be sick tomorrow. I've been fighting off whatever is going around at work, and tonight I'll be sitting in the cold with a 50% chance of rain to pick up my copy at midnight. So if I call in sick to work tomorrow, I won't be faking.

MightyIdle said on 11:12AM 11-12-2008

I'll be working as I'm no longer planning on getting Wrath. I've discovered other gaming options that are more attractive to me. This may be the perfect occasion to give EVE Online another try.

When BC dropped, we probably lost 15 people to the expansion here at work. This time around, everyone is playing something else and I've heard of no plans on skipping out for Wrath.

Those of you who do get it, remember that it's not a race. Sit back and enjoy yourself. Relax, have fun, and leave plenty of comments so we'll know how it's going.

Evi said on 11:22AM 11-12-2008

I'm not wasting PTO to stare at the character selection screen or whatnot. :P I do plan on playing nonstop during my four-day Thanksgiving weekend though!

Jon Merriex said on 1:15PM 11-12-2008

I doubt I'll call in sick on Thursday. Most likely it will be Monday/Tuesday that I'll be sick. It's sad how my brother got ran over by a reindeer like that.

Jon Merriex said on 12:19PM 11-12-2008

I doubt I'll call in sick on Thursday. Most likely it will be Monday/Tuesday that I'll be sick. It's sad how my brother got ran over by a reindeer like that.

Maddy said on 4:05PM 11-12-2008

First thing first in the morning, I'm going to the store to pick up my copy of WotLK. After that though, I'm doing exactly the same two things I do every Thursday: going to the gym in the (late) morning, going to my psychoanalysis session in the (early) afternoon...
HOWEVER, everything beside those it's definitely WoW time.