In support and sincere sympathy for all the King County employees who will be forced to take an extra week and a half off without pay next year, Seattlest has compiled a short list of our favorite "playing hooky" activities around town--a menu of action items, if you will, for the victims of budget cuts to consider on their extra time off. Thus far, we have: people-watch at Pike Place Market, read for a few hours at the Central Library, see the latest trashy movie, order Thai food and sit at home watching The Wire for five hours, take the bus to Golden Gardens and contemplate bird poop. Suggestions? more ›

We're no experts in workplace happiness, but we firmly believe that if you hate your job enough to ask someone to shoot you so that you can play hooky, maybe a better thing to do would be to just, oh we don't know....maybe quit?! more ›