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Video Games Changing the Workplace

Posted by Zonk on from the i-got-a-raise-thanks-to-half-life! dept.

kwolf22 writes "Last night, Marketplace aired the story: The New Video Frontier (audio available). From the show description : 'Host David Brown talks to author Mitchell Wade (Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever) about the video game industry and how first person shooter games will change workplace dynamics for the next generation of employees.' Mr. Wade brings up some interesting points about how persistance in gaming translates to persistance on the job."

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  1. Bosh! by Gothic_Walrus · · Score: 3, Funny
    FPS games aren't related to the workplace any more than Tetris, hockey, tiddlywinks, or llamas are.

    I mean, how often do you have to save the world from your boss, who just happens to be a hellspawned demon who lurks below the building within flunky-filled caverns and throws fireballs around for fun?

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    1. Re:Bosh! by arcanumas · · Score: 4, Funny
      You work in our company too?
      In our company's basement there is a door that is labeled "Boss only".
      Though we are not allowed to go in, we occationally hear swooshing sounds and hellish screams as though they came from imps and cacodemons (as if such creatures existed).

      Some times my boss walks around with some large Blue , Yellow and Red cards. I have even seen him turn around and getting his yellow card before opening a yellow door. I don't know why.

      Once he even asked if i knew where his BFG9000 was. WTF is a BFG9000? Boss must be crazy.
      However, the worst thing is when he asked my when re-enforments from Earth were coming. Where does he think he is? Mars? haha.

      I have no doubt the boss is crazy. I mean, who keeps a machine chainsaw in his office?

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