I've been invited to watch the Brazil game tomorrow at a local pub, so I'll have to ask permission to leave early as 3:30PM (I will start working at 7 and will not break for lunch). But the problem is, I work directly with people from north america, americans and canadians, with almost no interaction and management from locals, so it's kinda hard to convince them that this is actually OK and not some lame excuse for me to skip work. Hell, it's a holiday here on thursday and I'll work!

Reminds me of this hilarious advertisement shown here for a cable pay-per-view game. Shot kinda like "The Office", this old man gets into an office and talks to this man: "Look, I know I shouldn't be doing this. My grandson, he works for you, and he bought this game on pay-per-view, and we wanted to watch it together, we've always seen the games together since he was a little kid... And he said he couldn't do it because of his job, so I decided to come here and ask for your permission for him to leave early just for today."

The boss smiles, and picking the phone, says: "Oh, you're too late. He left 5 minutes ago, to attend your funeral. *to the phone* Hello? Human Resources department?"