Trenches comic: Thursday February 16, 2012 - Denouement
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Lockdown With Golf
02/16/2012 - Anonymous
In 2005, I was QA for the multiplayer portion of uh, INSERT GOLF GAME.
I never quite found out exactly why—the rumor was either attempted or successful corporate espionage—but the multiplayer testers for this specific game were locked in a secured room while we were testing. The room was about 20 feet by 20 feet, windowless, the wallslined with folding tables. The testers sat in standard desk chairs packed together arm rest-to-arm rest, each roughly in front of an 8” to 10” TV of varying brands and ages. The supervisor sat in the center of the room at a wrap-around desk, half warden and half pit boss… supervising.
As you can imagine, being packed shoulder-to-shoulder with unwashed men in a darkened room for 10-12 hours per day six days per week (with an hour out on the yard at the halfway point) made tensions run somewhat high. There were frequent fights. I’m not a violent person but I was shocked to find myself threatening people on several occasions. None of this seemed to concern our warden, who spent most of his time on car audio forums with headphones on to tune us out.
And of course, as if the confinement and tension weren’t enough, as part of the security procedures the door couldn’t be opened unless every Xbox was turned off and every game disc given to the pit boss. As the person who requested the bathroom break stood in the middle of the room watching his workers try to kill him with their minds. As you can imagine this only happened once. What happened twice, however, was testers passing out and wetting their pants, the chair, the floor and probably whoever had the office beneath him.
And that’s why to this day I can’t watch the Golf Channel without getting angry and peeing a little bit.
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The comic made me smile a little.
And I STILL love Portalis.
PSN ID: fearsomepirate
Eh, I don't know about that.
I knew a nuclear physicist who did some government work several years back. One time they brought him into a facility to do some work, but to get him to the room where he would be working they had to blindfold him as they took him down the halls. When they got him to where he was going, they took the blindfold off where he was working and said he could get started. It was a very small room with one door out. They told him that if he left the room without being accompanied by someone who worked there, the guard standing right outside had permission to shoot him if he wanted to.
To this day I wonder if he was really doing government work or working with SPECTRE. :P
EDIT: Also... is her skirt riding up on her right hip?
I know a number of folks who won't even open the company forums due to how irritating various posters can be.
I would normally go in and try to help the people though, it wasn't really my job to start with but nobody else was doing it and it was the right thing to do.
It was like trying to help paranoid tourettes sufferers.
Hence the pie/server. Gotta cut that shit.
I had a friend who got hired to work IT for NASA. He told me that he basically sat at an empty desk in a office for six months straight and did nothing because he had to wait for his security clearance to pass before he could do ANY work he was getting paid to do.
Isaac is essentially the shape of a piece from the board game Sorry.
This one actually made me laugh - 2 in a row...that's a good sign! Coincidentally two in a row without Q...
That sounds pretty sweet to be fair.
As long as he finally got his security clearance and got to do cool IT Nasa stuff. Otherwise that was a waste of time.
PSN ID: fearsomepirate
His panel one face sums up so much of his experiences. It's perfect.
This is pretty much why NASA is in the crapper.
NASA makes me sad. Not to politicize this thread, but knowing my son can't dream to go into space is gut-wrenching.
This is not unique to NASA. Besides, what were they gonna do? Give him access to classified stuff without a clearance?
It's definitely not limited to NASA, that 6 month story sounds like par for the course (especially for a contractor).
But I always presumed they were doing something like this because the "Seasons" link has been on the page since the beginning.
I would have thought they would put up something real to replace the scrambled personnel files on the New Readers page by now, but MegaTokyo has gone like a decade with a character bios page with no content, so I guess they've got some time.
There were no explosions or main character deaths.
QA isn't allowed to interact with the PUBLIC
That's just silly.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
That could be pretty interesting.
Anyway, the cast should just be glad they're keeping their jobs post-release, right?
Jesus, is MegaTokyo still around? Thanks for forcing me to go look it up and waste an entire day of my life getting caught up.
Yes, but they are also horribly run and often waste what little money they have. It's not unique in the government to NASA, but at least some of their problems are their own fault.
This.
Space is the bit you have to stop all the other bits from bumping into each other. That's important. Exploration of space, well, that spawns all sorts of highly useful and lucrative technologies. It's almost as good as war in that respect.
Ahahahahahaha! A day of your life, you say? That's hilarious. You think Piro started updating regularly?
That's probably enough MT talk though.