Alpe d'Huez Stage 17 Office Sickie Roll Call

CHRISNOIR

Anyone else considering pulling a sickie for this day of racing? I’m thinking of opting for a time-honoured classic; the emergency dental appointment. I may, unfortunately, neglect to tell my employers that the appointment is with Dr’s Liggett and Sherwen at the ITV4 Alpe d’Huez surgery.

Remember, kids, sickies are bad and may get you sacked...

iainf72

I don't do sickies.

It's like taking EPO to win a bike race. :P

Moomaloid

I did book it off work, but my boss i letting me have it on the wide screen in the office all day now. Have watched the rest of the tour live streamed on my laptop on my desk anyhow.

cougie

I want to work with you moomaloid.

I think i will be working from home that afternoon.

skavanagh.bikeradar

Hello, I'm your boss who knows you like cycling and has seen your bikeradar homepage and I'm putting two and two together at this point............

Hence, I've got a half day booked off.

chriskempton

Me and my partner both work from home sometimes. She had Wednesday slated for a day of working at home, and we have only space for one person in our study. I've claimed to her that I'll be spending Wednesday 'working from home' as a pretext to painting the house, in order to get her to change her plans and work in the office, allowing me to work from home. Little does she know, that 'painting the house' is in fact a pretext for 'sitting on my a**e all day watching the Alpe D'Huez stage'.

Is anybody else weaving a more complex web of deceit?

Pirahna

Luckily, watching sport on telly is almost compulsory at work.

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

@chriskempton.

Ha! I too plan to be 'working from home' for stage 17.

ricadus

I work from home normally anyway. Maybe I should work from the pub on Wednesday instead...

Compton77

My boss is on holiday, i've planned my schedule around a free day on Wednesday, the weather is looking good, I think it all leads to a few hours in the saddle in the morning followed by 4 or so hours watching Le Tour. Wonderful..

jimycooper

im off school now so can watch everyday on eurosport
i beat you all

chriskempton

Still at school? And writing those filthy paperbacks??

Doobz

Sadly I have to work but I have a huge telly about 3meters from my desk

andy_wrx

I have a meeting about credit card security all morning, followed by one about RFID in warehousing operations all afternoon. :x :x :x

It's enough to get me to want to throw a sickie, even without the Tour !

However, it's a bit like a visit to the dentist, you can put it off but you know you're going to have to do it sooner or later, so I'll have to be brave and get it over with.

But tomorrow is Bonette, which I did last September, so I'll WFH and see if I can watch that streamed-in and see if they go up the thing any quicker than I did

jimmythecuckoo

Am I the only one who has booked holiday?

aarw

been on a sickie for the past 4 weeks, broke both my arms in a club race. it's the first year in ages i've really been able to watch the tour properly!

partyly makes up for not being able to get out on the bike...amoung many, many, other things!

Moomaloid

we should've all got together in the pub!

robmanic1

aarw wrote:

been on a sickie for the past 4 weeks, broke both my arms in a club race. it's the first year in ages i've really been able to watch the tour properly!

partyly makes up for not being able to get out on the bike...amoung many, many, other things!

What the heck are you typing with???? :shock:

FullFrameRob

jimmythecuckoo wrote:

Am I the only one who has booked holiday?

No, i cycled most of Tuesday & Wednesdays route a few weeks back. So ive taken a few days holiday to watch stages 16 & 17.

vermooten

Taken day off - pulling a sicky is like taking EPO as has already been said. And as Stephen Roche said, it's the beginning of cheating.

If this were a civilised country it would be on in all city centres on a big screen.

muggomagic

had the last two weeks off sick (1st sick time in 7 years) went back to the doctor today and he said if i felt up to it i could go back wednesday.
I replied "i think wednesday maybe a day too soon. Thursday might be better"
he said "don't go back until Monday then, best not to rush it".
It was hard not to let out a cheer!

scwxx77

jimmythecuckoo wrote:

Am I the only one who has booked holiday?

I booked 2 weeks holiday.

Planning to get out v early tomorrow and back for the start.

summit_toppler

Luckily I'm off work for the next 5 weeks (summer shut down for college), so I've been doing my best to watch what I can so far.
However, Wednesdays stage is a different matter so I said to the wife 'Why don't you and the kids (3 boys aged 2,3 & 5!!!!!) go to your parents for the day, it'll be nice' Woohooo, she's going!!!

aarw

Robmanic1 wrote:

aarw wrote:

been on a sickie for the past 4 weeks, broke both my arms in a club race. it's the first year in ages i've really been able to watch the tour properly!

partyly makes up for not being able to get out on the bike...amoung many, many, other things!

What the heck are you typing with???? :shock:

very awkward 1 finger typing!

redvee

Tempted to avoid the volunteer work I do on wednesday too. No need to book a days holiday as every day for me is a holiday living on people's taxes.

dirk_van_gently

Anyone know of live streaming from any German site?
it's complicated, my t'interweb access is via Germany, so anything uk based just gets blocked.

Kléber

Eurosport Germany. Cyclingfans.com has the German Eurosport player for video with UK audio. Works fine in the UK, France and Italy but haven't tried it east of the Rhine...

Pirahna

aarw wrote:

been on a sickie for the past 4 weeks, broke both my arms in a club race

I've read that line several times and can't stop laughing. Probaly not quite so funny from your point of view though.

daver1

I'm living in Sydney at the moment so get to watch every stage live at night. I was glad to have a rest day yesterday as getting oput of bed after 4 hours sleep each night was starting to get hard.

dirk_van_gently

Kléber wrote:

Eurosport Germany...

Thanks for the heads up, hadn't actually thought about eurosport online DOH!
Looks like the streaming may get through.

guinea

I'm "working from home"