When Gaming Trains You For Work

ac514 writes "Parents should review their education before punishing their children. BBC wrote 'Video game skills and a good poker face online are becoming essential job qualifications in the financial markets, with recruitment drives assessing potential star traders in online gaming exams'. I knew some day these extra hours would pay off."

Comments

Poker Face?

[SharpFang]

Excuse me! Online games isolate you! You can cry, kick and cheer, then reply to the email in ballanced, calm words. But if they call and ask you for a face to face meeting, where's your computer-trained poker face?

Re:Poker Face?

[BenjyD]

AFAICS, online gaming trains most people to be complete f***tards. In BF1942 it's enough to make me give up - every server seems full of Tkers, plane-campers, cheats, sniper-tards, non-team-players, base-rapers and stats-whores.
When you see someone with a 42:1 kill:death put three tank rounds in a row into a panzer *he can't even see* because there's a wall in the way at long range in one game, and then next server have your team of 9 snipers + me overwhelmed by tanks, you start to get a annoyed.

Re:Poker

[luvirini]

The online pokerface they are talking about is the skill to act cool and not let your emotions run away in your actions. In a way is is actually harder when you do not "see" the other players.

Whatever happened to our "Future of Pure Leisure"?

[Cryofan]

Remember the visions of the future we had decades ago? We saw the future as a place of nothing but leisure for humans, while our machines did the work for us. We would spend our time playing games, instead.

But it looks more like a Slave Plantation Future, one where even our leisure time has to be dedicated to preparation for work. Gee, I wonder what happened?

How many scandals does it take?

[danharan]

It's one thing to hire people that have great hand-to-eye coordination from hours of Gameboy play, but it's quite another to seek out good liars:

"After all, in many workplace situations the ability to get away with white lies, to save face or be diplomatic, or to smooth over or disguise mistakes and errors, is a big advantage."

Hire enough compulsive liars, and the people that are promoted will be the slickest players of the bunch. How long does it take those people to rise to the top? 10, 15 years? You can bet we'll have another wave of Enrons just about then.

I know slashot helped

[teamhasnoi]

Arguing on Slashdot has certainly helped me deal with the developmently challenged people that email me saying, "I can't get my email to work".

leisure time = leisure time

[mr_angry]

I can't believe how many people are willing to sacrifice their every day life for more money/prestige/profit???

I mean, when i'm not at work, I DON'T WORK. While some people are so lame at work that they should get extra training, some others are doing everything they can after regular work hours to train more and be more competitive.

I officially declare that what i do in my spare time is for my own enjoyment (less the dish cleaning but enjoyment isn't easy when your kitchen is home to 132 rare insect species...)

I just think that we are heading straight into the burn-out generation. I work hard every weekday, many people do. But i think the whole category of people obsessed by performance and money is going to be burning out sooner or later. They can have twice the money i got, the peace i have at home is priceless. I don't have a luxury appartment and can't afford a luxury car but having the possibility to spend time with friends is priceless. People can keep their cash and pseudo standing in business suits. I'm sticking with friends.

This said, i think video games are one great way to have fun! I play on my gba SP everyday after work when i do the 40 minute bus ride to home. Oh and i want a Nintendo DS. Playing Animal Crossing anywhere is bound to be one of the leetest thing ever :)