[Vision2020] Star Wars unintended consequences

Scott Dredge sdredge at yahoo.com
Mon May 23 10:26:55 PDT 2005


Carl,

This wasn't an issue at all at my work.  My employer
gave everyone a Star Wars movie ticket (complete with
our own Star Wars badge) last Thursday. The movie
started at 10:00 Thursday morning and everyone was
back for a fully productive afternoon after the movie.

-Scott

--- Carl Westberg <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I just heard a report on NPR about absenteeism at
> work last week after the 
> opening of the new Star Wars movie.  Experts
> (whoever they are) were 
> predicting a loss of $626 million dollars in
> workplace productivity because 
> of people calling in sick after attending midnight
> premieres last Thursday 
> night.  And I'll wait for the DVD.                  
>                
>       Carl Westberg Jr.
> 



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