About 19 million U.S. employees had no plans to go into work the day after the Super Bowl, according to a new survey. Nearly one in five people surveyed, or 26.6 million people, said they’ll be missing at least a bit of the day today, while 18.8 million are taking the day off. Of them, 4.7 million planned ahead to be no-shows, while more than 3 million planned to call in sick regardless, the findings by the Harris Poll for the Workforce Institute.
And managers aren’t exempt, 23 percent saying they were going to at least be late to the office today.
The Super Bowl typically averages around 100 million live and same-day viewers and is routinely the highest-viewed event of the year in the nation. Read more at the Los Angeles Times
Additionally, nearly one in 2 chickens surveyed said they won’t be showing up for work any time in the near or distant future because their wings were gobbled up by crazed Super Bowl fans on Sunday.
“I know my chicken farmer isn’t going to like it when I don’t show up to work on a permanent basis,” said one clipped chicken, who plans on collecting disability insurance due to his clipped wings, “but it’s not my fault. Believe me, I’d much rather show up to work with my wings intact than to remain grounded in my beachfront vacation coop in Florida.”
No wonder why when I got to work there were so many free parking spots!