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Report Indicates Workers Play A Lot of Games On the Job
A report released by casual gaming mecca PopCap Games indicates that white collar workers play games constantly throughout the day. The study indicates that as salaries and titles improve on the organizational chart, the amount of gameplaying in a given day increases substantially. "Considering that the casual games market is around 200 million people, PopCap estimates that the executive crowd is very much into casual gaming, with about 80 million 'white collar' workers playing. 24 percent of the 'white collar' employees said they do play at work, and that number jumps up to 35 percent for CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives. 98 percent said that they play casual games at home too." What's your favorite on-the-job casual title?
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The end guy is tough.
Sig? What sig? Do I have to have a sig!?!?
I personally keep my terminal open and have TradeWars running with a keep alive script. I can either run a script to get something done with minimal interaction, or just check it ever now and then to make sure i'm not getting attacked.
One of the best benefits of this is if anyone walks by while i have it in focus it doesn't look like a game since it's just a bunch of text.
I work in the Superlab (server testing) at IBM and part of the job is slacking off. We go through testing cycles and sometimes we're slammed, and sometimes we have nothing to do. Even when we do have something to do, 20% of it is setting stuff up and the other 80% is waiting on what we set up to finish running. I try to make good use of my down time, reading pertinent materials, writing useful scripts, but there's only so much one can do. Is it really all that terrible I read slashdot while I wait for a server to reboot 500 times?
Skiffy is Spiffy, but Ort is tort.
I understand the argument, but it does not account for reality.
Some of us simply do not have anything to do. If you agree to pay me for 40 hours per week and just don't give me any work to do, it's your own fault. That's why I'm typing on Slashdot as we speak... I'm waiting for signoff and access to the platform.
It's nice in principle to demand eight hours of solid work per day, but in reality, there are occasions where there are only six or seven hours of work to do, or over the last week or so for me, zero to one.
It involves typing loads of stuff really quickly, then to earn points, what you type does something special. And then, someone judges your typing by 'testing' how special that something is. If that something special does what the piece of paper says, then you get a pat on the head and maybe a biscuit. You could play it for hours, sometimes you get on a roll, sometimes you bomb. They even have people called 'project managers' who make sure the gameplay doesn't get out of control.
Task Mangler
"I don't hire ANYONE that has ever claimed unemployment, unless they have a REALLY good explanation and can deliver it with a straight face."
WTF does one have to do with the other? I guess you wouldn't hire me, then, because I've drawn a whole six weeks of unemployment (3 in '91, 3 in '01) over the last 20 years of my full time working life, which in total didn't add up to the amount of taxes I've paid this quarter alone. I sympathize with you on someone stealing from you (even trivial stuff), but wow.
I suppose, given that you seem to have minarchist libertarian to anarcho-capitalist sympathies from what I saw in your journal entries, that you regard taxation as theft, and by extension, drawing unemployment as theft. Fair enough, but I recommend reading Dr. Walter Block, a dyed-in-the-wool Austrian economist as there ever has been, who would probably see it more as reappropriating what has already been stolen.
I run adult (porn) web sites for a living, and have for the past 4 years. Our busiest traffic days are week days, with Mondays being the busiest. Weekends always see a large drop in traffic. The busiest traffic hours are also during "standard North American work hours". Between 11am to 7pm EST. A huge peak between 4pm - 6pm and a very sharp decline around 8pm or 9pm.
/. stories during the weekend. If I had to make any guesses I'd think that people are often stressed at work and so they resort to slacking off be it playing games or surfing the Internet ... or jerking off.
I'm assuming most types of web sites probably see the same thing. I certainly notice fewer comments on
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An interesting title where failure is, while not always fun, at least usually pretty interesting. Google 'boatmurdered' for an example. Not for you overly graphical sorts.
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It sounds like you are a micro-manager who just wants people to look busy. My thinking on the subject couldn't be more different.
Ideally, their work translates into your money. If Alice completed the same amount of work as Bob at the end of the day, and they have the same job, with the same pay, what does it matter that Alice shopped for shoes because she finished early? As long as Alice is discreet about it, her slacking has no effect on your bottom line. Efficiency should be rewarded, not punished. Either give her more work and a raise or simply turn a blind eye to it and hope Bob learns a thing or two.
The exception, of course, is if one has no way to evaluate their productivity in an objective sense. Then, in my opinion, one is are unqualified to manage them. Yes, it's an art; not all business is reducible to some integer quantity of work done. But subjectively evaluating workers is pointless, because you are not paying them to look busy.
It's because if someone claims unemployment against him, he'll have to pay a portion of it.
He's just being cheap.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
I have a DS here next to me. Whenever I need to wait for something (like a batchjob, since I'm doing mainframe programming) I play for a few seconds then get back to work.
Would you believe the pace of my work has actually increased because of this?! I think it has something to do with not getting into a boredom induced paralysis.
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We play "Guess Who is quitting this week because they are tired of the BS". We have more turnovers here than the Pillsbury Corp. It's a very difficult game but much better than "Guess who just took hostages"....