Everyone’s gone for the weekend. The government, like they always do, authorized a three-hour early release today. I’m a contractor, though, so I can’t leave. Thus the “ditching” part. I have three options:
Tough out the next 2 hours in absolute boredom.
Leave now and charge 2 hours of leave on my timesheet.
Leave now and charge a full day’s work, risking getting caught and potentially fired.
The likelihood of getting caught is maybe 1%-2%. I only have about 4 hours of leave time saved up, though.
But it’s a Friday before a holiday- I’ve been doing that all day! And I can’t do anything that sucks up bandwidth or they might notice. That’s why I flip back and forth between CNN, Wiki, and the Dope.
Plus, there’s no freshly-opened Skyrim here, completely the opposite of my house.