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Taking a man day

  • 30-01-2014 12:58PM
    #1
    aaakev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭


    Onc3 or twice a year I like to take a 'man day' where I call into work sick but still leave to go to work as normal. Its a day of freedom where you can do what ever you like! I normally do it at the end of my very busy first quarter because everything else, ie hobbies, kind of gets out on the back burner and and before my busy last quarter.

    Iv gone cinema, go karting, surfing, hunting and clay pigeon shooting on different occasions!!

    Anyone else ever take man days?


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  • #2
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    What makes that a man day?


  • #3
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    In what branch of the civil service are you in?


  • #4
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Every day is a Man-Day. Ugh-Ugh-Uuuuuggghhhh!! :cool:


  • #5
    conorhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,096 ✭✭✭conorhal


    I take a couple of 'man day's off a week, I call them the weekend.....


  • #6
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I dream about it but have never actually gone through with it. I think having to keep up the lies to both sides would just ruin the day.


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  • #7
    ghogie91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ghogie91


    Or else you could take a holiday and not leech sick days


  • #8
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Could you not just use a day from your annual leave? It's what they are for.


  • #9
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    aaakev wrote: »
    Iv gone cinema, go karting, surfing, hunting and clay pigeon shooting on different occasions!!

    WHOAAAAA BODYFORM..............BODYFORM FOR YOUuuuuuuuuuuuuuu


  • #10
    mightyreds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭mightyreds


    Did you ever join a parade and sing twist and shout that's a day off!


  • #11
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    Well according to this eejit you're a sad git��

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057137148

    I like to take a man-week, every 6 to 8 weeks I throw the dog in the car, leave the family at home and head down South for a few days fishing, hill walking and a few pints in the evening. Always come back refreshed.


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  • #12
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,220 ✭✭✭maximoose


    I probably take one a year, although it has been quite a while.

    My finest was about 5 years ago. Was on the bus in to work on a gloriously sunny day, think it was around Paddy's day time, and for a few weeks I'd been thinking about getting new rollerblades. Was a massive skater when I was a kid and played a lot of hockey, and I missed it.

    Got off the bus early, went to a skate shop and spunked a few hundred quid on a pair of beauties. Got the bus home, made the call to work, then went for a mammoth skate out to Clontarf. I was so happy with myself :)


  • #13
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    I've done this but I have a vagina, worried about what I should be calling these days?

    Coz up til now, "zero fucks shall be given" days has sufficed.


  • #14
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I work nights in a bar, so I don't take time off very much, but tomorrow I'm taking a weekend away with one of my friends to Liverpool for a full weekend of carousing. It's be 18 months since I've had a weekend to myself, so I can't fookin wait.


  • #15
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    maximoose wrote: »
    I probably take one a year, although it has been quite a while.

    My finest was about 5 years ago. Was on the bus in to work on a gloriously sunny day, think it was around Paddy's day time, and for a few weeks I'd been thinking about getting new rollerblades. Was a massive skater when I was a kid and played a lot of hockey, and I missed it.

    Got off the bus early, went to a skate shop and spunked a few hundred quid on a pair of beauties. Got the bus home, made the call to work, then went for a mammoth skate out to Clontarf. I was so happy with myself :)
    keith16 wrote: »
    WHOAAAAA BODYFORM..............BODYFORM FOR YOUuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

    Apt.


  • #16
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,220 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Yeah but then I came home and chopped down a tree, fired a pistol, grew a beard and then kicked a dog to balance it out.


  • #17
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Round here we call them P45 days.

    As in you'll be getting yours in the post if you pull a stunt like that on my time.


  • #18
    rivalius13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭rivalius13


    http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1ozwUaoK1r3hokqo8_250.gif


  • #19
    Terry1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Terry1985


    Links234 wrote: »
    What makes that a man day?

    Changing out of pyjamas and not watching true movies to make him cry?


  • #20
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    aaakev wrote: »
    Onc3 or twice a year I like to take a 'man day' where I call into work sick but still leave to go to work as normal. Its a day of freedom where you can do what ever you like! I normally do it at the end of my very busy first quarter because everything else, ie hobbies, kind of gets out on the back burner and and before my busy last quarter.

    Iv gone cinema, go karting, surfing, hunting and clay pigeon shooting on different occasions!!

    Anyone else ever take man days?

    Links234 wrote: »
    What makes that a man day?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VScLgjuAsM


  • #21
    Babooshka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Babooshka


    aaakev wrote: »
    Onc3 or twice a year I like to take a 'man day' where I call into work sick but still leave to go to work as normal. Its a day of freedom where you can do what ever you like! I normally do it at the end of my very busy first quarter because everything else, ie hobbies, kind of gets out on the back burner and and before my busy last quarter.

    Iv gone cinema, go karting, surfing, hunting and clay pigeon shooting on different occasions!!

    Anyone else ever take man days?

    It's not really gender specific... and to people under 18 it's known as "going on the mitch" - funnily enough most people who can afford to do this, are still in school, time to grow up OP.


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  • #22
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    aaakev wrote: »
    Anyone else ever take man days?

    Nope, I have a conscience.


  • #23
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    aaakev wrote: »

    Iv gone cinema, go karting, surfing, hunting and clay pigeon shooting on different occasions!!
    Glad to read you did these things on different occasions. I would be some feat to accomplish them all at the same time !


    By the way, are you a staunch follower of the United Orthodox Jewish Free Presbytarian Church OP that rules out doing these activities at the weekend?


  • #24
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    the groutch wrote: »
    Nope, I have a conscience.

    The company which employs you doesn't. So I wouldn't worry about them. Worry about other employees maybe.


  • #25
    gimmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    ghogie91 wrote: »
    Or else you could take a holiday and not leech sick days
    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Could you not just use a day from your annual leave? It's what they are for.

    Never pulled a sicky ever no? Everything you do is 100% upright and honest. I hope to god you are not posting this on a work computer or on work time. Otherwsie that would make you leeches as well.

    I have a man weekend once or twice a year where I head down to West Cork, sometimes on my own, others with a few buddies. No lady prattle to annoy em all weekend and its great.

    Herself does similar. Its good to recharge with some solitary eating and drinking and lazing.


  • #26
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,106 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    gramar wrote: »
    In what branch of the civil service are you in?

    One that knows not to do that to a sentence.


  • #27
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    gramar wrote: »
    In what branch of the civil service are you in?

    very apt username


  • #28
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    2 sick days every year? that's 20 more than I've had in the last 10 years. . .perhaps that's why the hair is thinning


  • #29
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    fantastic idea OP

    Fook the haters.


  • #30
    Cian92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Cian92


    gramar wrote: »
    In what branch of the civil service are you in?

    Do you know so little about the civil service that you think there workload changes around quarters?

    This man clearly works in the private sector but the idea that someone in the private sector would take a sicky doesn't suit your agenda. :rolleyes:


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  • #31
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    beks101 wrote: »
    I've done this but I have a vagina, worried about what I should be calling these days?
    A snatched day?


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