Ranty McRantpants
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Dear Soon to be Extremely Annoying Coworker,
1. Nobosy's impressed witht he fact that you will be graduating from Ye-Crappy-Technical-School in 3 weeks with an AA that took you twice as long to get as it should have. So stop talking about it as loudly as you can.
2. When you sit in a room full of WoW-heads, don't proclaim that you *hate* WoW and think its stupid, especially if you haven't tried it before. It does NOT score you points, especially when the person leading the discussion is the Head Trainer. So shut up before the class descends upon you like a pack of wolves.
3. The louder you talk, the more people ignore you. And STOP trying to talk over everyone else when the trainer asks a question, ESPECIALLY when you DON'T know the damned answer!!!
4. You sure as hell have better not choose a desk near my friends and I, as I know most of the call center already. Because if you try this annoying shit after training is over, we will very kindly rip you a new one. And if you sit near me and hover around my desk as you did earlier today, I will duct tape your ass to the window!!!!
5. I may be a girl and a geek, but a snowball has a better chance of staying cool in hell than you do of ever getting near me, especailly since my FIANCEE works IN THE SAME DAMNED CENTER. My guild leader and my big brother also work in the same department. Try anything, and if you somehow manage to survive my feminine wrath, I'm quite positive you won't survive them. In fact, I detest you so much, that if we were the alst people on Earth, I would rather attempt to create some sort of centaur-esque being to continue a new race of humanity than even gaze upon you. /WITH/ clothes on. Its hard enough at work as it is.
Now if only I could email this to him without worrying about getting fired, as my Supervisor is one of the few that I /don't/ already know.
xposted to my own LJ
1. Nobosy's impressed witht he fact that you will be graduating from Ye-Crappy-Technical-School in 3 weeks with an AA that took you twice as long to get as it should have. So stop talking about it as loudly as you can.
2. When you sit in a room full of WoW-heads, don't proclaim that you *hate* WoW and think its stupid, especially if you haven't tried it before. It does NOT score you points, especially when the person leading the discussion is the Head Trainer. So shut up before the class descends upon you like a pack of wolves.
3. The louder you talk, the more people ignore you. And STOP trying to talk over everyone else when the trainer asks a question, ESPECIALLY when you DON'T know the damned answer!!!
4. You sure as hell have better not choose a desk near my friends and I, as I know most of the call center already. Because if you try this annoying shit after training is over, we will very kindly rip you a new one. And if you sit near me and hover around my desk as you did earlier today, I will duct tape your ass to the window!!!!
5. I may be a girl and a geek, but a snowball has a better chance of staying cool in hell than you do of ever getting near me, especailly since my FIANCEE works IN THE SAME DAMNED CENTER. My guild leader and my big brother also work in the same department. Try anything, and if you somehow manage to survive my feminine wrath, I'm quite positive you won't survive them. In fact, I detest you so much, that if we were the alst people on Earth, I would rather attempt to create some sort of centaur-esque being to continue a new race of humanity than even gaze upon you. /WITH/ clothes on. Its hard enough at work as it is.
Now if only I could email this to him without worrying about getting fired, as my Supervisor is one of the few that I /don't/ already know.
xposted to my own LJ
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Date: 2006-05-16 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 04:52 am (UTC)However, on that subject, I will note that people who DO have difficulty managing their lives tend to congregate in various online games. This may be anecdotal, but I knew one particular person in RL fairly well who supported his alcohol and weed habits by selling EQ stuff on EBay. He also happened to be a sperm donor (as opposed to an attentive father) to a 3 year old son (the mother isn't much better and the child is raised by Mr. Gamer's parents, but that's a whole other rant). I'm sure he's just the odd exception. It's not a matter of hating games like WoW, it's a matter of how they tend to attract some players who don't exactly know how to take care of their lives. If it wasn't WoW, it would be something else.
Loudly berate the game? Sometimes. Seeing RL references to it in what I feel are inappropriate locations (yeah, somebody probably reading this may know what I'm talking about) do bother me. Keep the online world online, already. If it's all everyone ever talks about in the office and people make it sound like that have no outside life... yeah, I'm probably going to think the game is what's responsible for making your existance pathetic. Otherwise, I'm content to smile and nod when you start up a conversation about it because I won't have a clue what you're talking about :).
This got entirely too long, but I hope this shows some educated thought into why games like WoW can be rationally disliked (as opposed to this lovely cow orker) without hating the players. Preferably without starting a flamewar while we're at it :).
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Date: 2006-05-16 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 01:46 pm (UTC)I can't help but note that someone who has alcohol and drug problems is probably not a good example of someone who made responsible choices before that game came along. So why are we expecting them to make the responsible choice now when they are faced with the choice of play games vs. get a damn job?
It's really the overgeneralizations that kill me. I'm holding down a 4.0 GPA, performing well enough at work to earn an 8.5% raise on my last review, and I manage to keep a reasonably active social life. And, yes! I play WoW, too. But people like those in your example above make me look bad just by association. Games are gaining popularity, but they haven't quite shaken the stigma of the 22-year-old college dropouts living in Mom's basement and subsisting on ramen because they spend their time in the game world instead of the real one.
We aren't all like that.
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Date: 2006-05-16 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-16 10:06 am (UTC)I hate bitchy WoW players who are trying to blaim Blizzard's problems on me.
That dosent mean I care about WoW tho.
(PS: Please send some canned sleep, I need some.)
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Date: 2006-05-16 04:44 pm (UTC)Oh man, where can I get some of that?!!! I've already gone through a quart of coffee but can barely keep eyes open.
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Date: 2006-05-16 05:57 pm (UTC)