By dropping the frozen bird into a boiling pot of fry grease while everyone stands within 2' of the pot watching. Be sure to do it inside the home for best effects.
Why do I have to take a vacation day if I've worked 8 hours OT for the week?
Stay, but throw a big Thanksgiving celebration for everyone with lots of booze. Expense it. They should be thankfully they have such awesome employees, right?
Print a life-sized cut-out of yourself on the plotter and have a co-worker who is out of vacation time deliver it to all of the meetings. Everyone knows that any decisions made the week before Christmas will change after January 1st anyway.