# Did anyone take tomorrow off work **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** liquor-alcohol\ **Created:** [November 5, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692 "2024-11-05T02:44:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/1 "2024-11-05T02:44:43Z")
I’m going to get pizza, drink whiskey and cross my fingers. I voted early, donated money, and don’t live in a swing state. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/2 "2024-11-05T02:46:33Z")
I’m taking Wednesday off, because I’m an elections (“poll”) worker and I’ll be dog tired. ---
**Author:** ![HEMAblerd313](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@HEMAblerd313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HEMAblerd313)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/3 "2024-11-05T02:51:53Z")
I am given 4 hours off (Federal employee) to vote even though I already voted weeks ago via mail. Gonna work my 4 hours, cook (Nawlins Stuffed Bell Peppers), go to my second job and work another 4 hours, go to HEMA pratitice (Historial European Martial Arts aka a cooler version of Fencing) head home, shower, get inhebriated and head to bed. I’ll see the projections hopefully the next day(for Harris) when I’m heading to the gym at 5 am ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/4 "2024-11-05T02:55:04Z")
Hell, no! I’m thankful that I have something to distract me from the election for 8 hours. ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/5 "2024-11-05T02:55:58Z")
I thought about it but did not. I mailed my vote and it’s been counted. I’m not in a sales or other high engagement position. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/6 "2024-11-05T02:56:15Z")
Me, too. Ironically, my distraction is helping people vote…even people voting for Trump! ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/7 "2024-11-05T02:58:36Z")
Cheers to you. That’s just about heroic work. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/8 "2024-11-05T02:59:59Z")
Thank you. I am fortunate to be on a great team. It’s like that movie “Same Time, Next Year”…or like a reunion of old friends. Friends who _mean business_. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/9 "2024-11-05T03:00:31Z")
I work from home and control my own schedule, mostly. So I guess I’m taking the day off from work tomorrow except for responding to calls or emails from clients, which won’t be too onerous. I plan to enjoy a celebratory bottle glass of champagne sometime tomorrow night. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/10 "2024-11-05T03:16:26Z")
Not me. Don’t work. My daughter is off work. She going to a Election watch party. Costumes will be worn. They’re all Democrats. So I feel it’s safe. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/14 "2024-11-05T03:36:25Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Hell, no! I’m thankful that I have something to distract me from the election for 8 hours. - Ditto! After the anguish of 2016, I don’t plan to pay much attention until things start to become definitive. That could change, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/15 "2024-11-05T03:42:40Z")
I work from home as well, so will do some work stuff, take my kids to school, go knock on some doors, come home and maybe rock back-and-forth quietly in a corner with some liquor. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/16 "2024-11-05T03:45:04Z")
I took comp time at the PD for both Tuesday and Wednesday night. Got me a bottle of Bookers which I’ll drink no matter what happens. I am keeping regular hours at the sporting good store I own but I employ a manager to deal with that. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/17 "2024-11-05T04:00:56Z")
I used to take election day off; my boss thought I was nuts. I only work Sunday now so I don’t have to ask for it off anymore. I’ll watch 'till I can’t keep my eyes open anymore. Though, I will be glad, Glad, GLAD! The election is over. I live in MI, and I’m political junky, but the ads have driven me over the edge into the abyss. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/18 "2024-11-05T04:02:50Z")
I’ve already voted and it’s the busiest time of the year for me at work. So I’m working. I wasn’t going to order a pizza, but that sounds like a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/19 "2024-11-05T04:10:01Z")
I’m working from home, which I hope will be a good distraction until it’s late enough for results to start coming in. I wish I could just go to bed early and read the news when I wake up, but 1) no way my anxiety and insomnia combo lets me do that, and b) I think I’d have to sleep for a long time. I expect that it will take some time to get solid enough results in the closest states. I may take Wednesday off though, if I’m up all night. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/20 "2024-11-05T04:14:00Z")
I’m working Tuesday and Wednesday, and have out of town guests coming in Thursday through Tuesday - we’ll keep each other chill and celebrate or commiserate. And they won’t have to be in Texas during a Trump election fallout period. There are two unopened bottles of wine, one of vodka, 2 of rum, one of amaretto, and several various partials of many flavors to carry us forward. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/21 "2024-11-05T04:25:53Z")
Retired, I’d take that day anyway. I’ll be hiding under the table. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/22 "2024-11-05T04:43:59Z")
I don’t drink, but I may well abandon my food/calorie reduction and have tortilla chips and queso dip. I love a good excuse. ---
**Author:** ![HEMAblerd313](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@HEMAblerd313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HEMAblerd313)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692/23 "2024-11-05T04:48:13Z")
Same exact (also in MI). I literally hate the ads, ESPECIALLY the ones from the right which are just blatant lies. I’ve had to mute the anti Kamala/Slotklin ads whenever I see them. They had a series of new ones tonight with a strange looking woman proclaiming Trump is protecting women. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-take-tomorrow-off-work/1009692.md?page=2)