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OMG, Cholesterol! Wait, that was Sunday. What day is this? It’s been hectic at work this week, and I fully thought today was Friday. Fuck. This upcoming four-day weekend is so needed… but I’ll bet vital parts of my anatomy my cell phone will ring. A little more on that later.
This picture is a co-worker playing World Of Warcraft on his lunch break. A good portion of the people in my office are addicted to this social problem. Yes, I said social problem. It’s an epidemic. There are more than five million people paying $15 US dollars a month to play this MMORPG. Anything that captures the population’s attention, makes them spend lots of money and time, causes lack of sleep, and affects job performance is by definition, a social disease. Look it up yourself if you don’t believe me. Anyway, I’m sure some of my WoW-playing co-workers and friends will throw the bullshit flag at me (or give me the finger) because I’ve never played the game. But really, kill monsters, do quests, level up, kill others, do quests, level up, ad nauseam. I don’t know how many conversations I’ve walked into where people are talking about mages, hunters, paladins, and queers (oh my!), or some shit. It’s like a whole other language. “I used my druid on that quest, and collected serious aggro,” or whatever. Shit. Someone should play with their night elf a little more, if ya know what I mean.
Tuesday I found out that several domains (and by several, I mean more than 20) needed to be moved to our servers from a company that’s going out of business. Several of these domains were entered into our ticket system late last week, and were handled like any other domain. At the time, no one told us in the Hosting department that the old host was shutting down servers on August 31. It wasn’t until Tuesday afternoon that I discovered (read: was told) we had to move these domains, their content, set up forums, create mail accounts, and change SOA records in 48 hours. The shit?! And overtime wasn’t approved! Needless to say, I spent the last two days in DND and not answering requests for help. I was stressing, and I took it out on everyone around me. We have a great crew of technical support technicians, and they’re great people, too. They handle a lot of issues without assistance, but sometimes it’s like they’re thinking about playing WoW, or pullin’ their “night elves,” or something. Fuck! I couldn’t deal with even the slightest bit of stupidity today, and I know I was a little more than unfair. But when I’m up against a deadline, and someone queries me — taking me away from my task at hand — for information that can be found in an open ticket, I can’t help but get a little pissed.
Tomorrow is Friday, and the last day before my four-day weekend. I just know that the weekend crew is going to take a call or five from people with domains that aren’t working. And I’ll have to VPN into the network to take care of it. Oh well. Maybe my managers will remember all this hard work when it comes time for my next pay raise. Then again, maybe not.
I completely agree with you on the WOW issue. I feel like for anyone to take me seriously around the Office I would have to play the game and then walk around like a Zombie spewing phrases starting such as “My Guild this” and “Raid that”. Maybe that’s the real key to promotion around here. All I have to do is to “Level Up” in WOW first. Must be why those of us Non-Players aren’t able to stick around after “The Move”.
I have always had a one-sided opinion in regards to any MUD since 1996 when my Ex-Husband quit his job because 8 hours of work a day was just cutting too much into that Gemstone playing time.
Personally, I am too much of a Pirate to pay once for a game, let alone monthly to PLAY it. That, and I have a life.
If I remember right one of the biggest WoW players in the office will not be making the move.
Come’on Waf..U know U wanna play
Runs like a champ on Linux with X over. .12 per hour of entertainment is hard to beat.
Your math is a litle ambiguous, Lance. If I pay $14.95 a month to play WoW, and I play 4 hours a day, then I’m spending 12 cents an hour to play. But let’s do the math for Bob. He’s playing about 8 hours a day? That’s roughly 6 cents an hour. I’m not a gamer at heart. Even my XBOX sits idle for months on end. It would cost me $14.95 an hour to play… if not more.