http://ecuador.worldcupblog.org/1/official-world-cup-excuse-note.html World Cup 2006 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:46:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://ecuador.worldcupblog.org/1/official-world-cup-excuse-note.html/comment-page-1#comment-476 Let’s Put an End to the Charade - FIFA World Cup 2006 - World Cup 2006 Blog Tue, 09 May 2006 16:07:34 +0000 http://ecuador.worldcupblog.org/1/official-world-cup-excuse-note.html#comment-476 [...] We’ve been reading a lot of stories about how employees from Malaysia to Tunisia and all parts in between will be calling in sick to the office a lot during the World Cup. We’ve heard how some of you are plotting to watch the World Cup and we’ve gone so far as to pen a note to your boss explaining your World Cup illness. Today we even read that an insurance company in the Netherlands is offering policies to Dutch employers to help insure them against large-scale absenteeism. There seems to be an obvious solution to all of this. [...] [...] We’ve been reading a lot of stories about how employees from Malaysia to Tunisia and all parts in between will be calling in sick to the office a lot during the World Cup. We’ve heard how some of you are plotting to watch the World Cup and we’ve gone so far as to pen a note to your boss explaining your World Cup illness. Today we even read that an insurance company in the Netherlands is offering policies to Dutch employers to help insure them against large-scale absenteeism. There seems to be an obvious solution to all of this. [...]

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