Games in the Workplace?

Anonymous Coward asks: "Back in the day it was not uncommon for games to contain 'Escape Buttons' and other commands to quickly exit a game. These games appealed to the Geek at Work as he could fill in his Friday afternoon and as soon as he heard his boss' shoes approaching, he could escape from the third dungeon and return to his spreadsheet. Yet games today are not allowing such activities to occur. Most games are requiring so much dedicated action that it is impossible to play a game and still switch back and forth without long delays. Where are the games for the worker?"

Comments

please

[thomas.galvin]

Oh please.

There is a reason it is called "work." If you are so bored with your job that you need to play games all the time, you are in the wrong line of work. If your boss is too uptight to realize that sometimes the brain needs to leave a problem lie for a while, and that there is nothing wrong with playing a game or surfing the web when you are just spinning your wheels, you are working for the wrong people.

Work is for Work

[Luminous]

Okay, I'm not the most productive person at all times. I've been known to play a game or two of bedazzled at work, but come on, you are at work. You really want to play CivIII or TheSims? If you do, you aren't just stealing a little bit of time and performance from your company, you are guilty of severe underperformance. I don't care if you get all your work done and have 3 hours to kill. At my job, if a person has free time, then they have time to help someone else do menial tasks. There is always filing that needs to be done.

Steal some time to play Solitaire or Tetris, some other simple game that can be played will checking voicemail or sitting in on a conference call.