Star Wars Sick Days Will Cost $300m

Chicago-based recruitment firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas projects as many as 2.6m workers will take the day off work on May 16 to see the latest instalment of George Lucas\’s sci-fi series.
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Challenger told Reuters that technology firms were likely to be hit harder than most because of the high proportion of geeks among staff, who were likely to be Star Wars aficionados.

Geeks rule.