I'll have you know we -voted- not to claim independance from Britan. We like the SOB's.

And... my god... Australia day races...

*stumbles back to bed bleary-eyed*

It was a vote. Not a unanimous decision. Give me a flag to burn. Tyrants!

Go eat a penguin.

I remember going to a party. I remeber being driven back home to 'refuel' the party after people cleverly didn't bring enough alcohol. I remember getting into bed at ~1am and then waking up around ~9am .. with no recollection of what happened in between.

Happy Australia day kids.

went to sydney with about 20 of the lads- pub crawl from the start of george street to the bridge= fun, fun, and more fun

Going to be at 1am during a party?? I do hope you had a good excuse for that.
Last time I bothered to get drunk I stayed up until 6 and then I actually had a great excuse to go to bed
Australians...

Yup - every other Techie in my area was either on leave or going to be "sick" the day after. I had to be at work.

Owwwwwwwww! People lack of responsability is awful Sorry to hear you had to be the responsable person in there.

*chuckles* apparently it's aussie tradition to take a sickie if any public holiday falls on a tuesday or thursday (before and after respectivley) especially on australia day.

so i was very australian and worked today

Yeh go the sickie! great for extending those long weekend, i like to do the friday before a monday public holiday, and just get totally railed on scotch for the weekend.

We just call that "making a bridge" or "bridged holidays" and most people just take a day off or simply the company allows the day to be considered holidays (in small companies). Want to clarify that spanish workers has at least 22 holiday days a year legally, besides the national holidays, and companies usually allow people to decide when to take them. I've heard is not like that everywhere, wich is a reason against moving to work outside.

In december, when the 6 and 8 are holidays and they fall in tuesday and thursday respectively, we call that an aqueduct.

We don't need to play the sick, we're just accepting of the lack of productive going to work on day yes, and one day now, causes.

I work at Outback Steakhouse and my customer got her meal free becuase she wished me a Happy Aussie Day.

You can do that?! *makes note for next year*

Well, she just got lucky that my manager was around when I was talking about it. He said she was the first and he was in a good mood.

pffft u pussies, go to work with hang ovas ...awesome fun ey' lol

Real men take sickies.

Guess all the real men beat me to it.