I agree with the other reviewers here, this Ask a Spy was pretty weak. If you want to get out early, you need to do the following:1. be sure to park somewhere in the parking lot where your boss won't see you get in your car and drive away; also, find a way to exit the building so that you won't be noticed
2. set up a script (like in iCal) that will automatically send out your emails during the time that you are gone--save up a couple of emails that you need to send throughout the day and if you duck out at 4:00, have them send at different points between 4:00 and 5:00
3. If you're in an office where it's obvious to others that you've left if your office door is closed, then buy one of those wheeled alarm clocks, turn off the sound, and set it to go when it hits 5:00 (turn off the sound). Attach it to the back of your office door and at 5:00 it will push your door closed. If others look inside your office before the door is closed but while you are gone, they'll just assume you are down the hall in another office or in the bathroom.
4. Finally, it's better if you can leave in the middle of the day & come back and be seen from 4:30 to 5:00, it raises less suspicions. You can use the email trick to help sell illusion that you are around the office.

Any old dipwad can be a suckup. you'd think a spy would know how to ditch work.
i bet the guy who wrote this was trying to suckup to his boss

The question was, "How can I show up late and leave work early?"... This video just shows, on how to be a huge suck-up to your boss... In which case, being a suck-up would only be useful if your boss was actually Power Hungry. Fail!