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OH SHIT
Shade
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So I just lost my job(I clipped a wall with the forklift). And now my ability to go to PAX is in jeopardy! Quick! I need money saving ideas!Or if you want to hire me that would work too!
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Olive Garden.
I know nothing about olives, nor can I garden.
Where do you live?
spokanistan.
Seconded. It's boring work, but if you can type fast there's little you can do to cause outright disaster, and you get paid pretty well.
Jesus
Woah, you mean Spokane? Spokompton? Shit, son... Good luck in the ghetto. :P
Seek yon Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Craigslist, mayhaps?
MINE'S BETTER
faster than that
data entry places look more at keystrokes per hour than they do words per minute. Something over 10k alphanumeric and over 5 or 6k on the 10-key would probably score a decent data entry position.
The question becomes what skills can he apply where... so fill us in, man.
Losers! ATTACK!!
A job's a job, turtle. Sometimes nothing else is available, and you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Even if it's just for losers, it's an open option that can be used if necessary. Personally, I'd rather do data entry than fast food.
...I could always re-apply to geek squad....BECAUSE I LIKE PAIN.....
what does 10k keystroes an hour translate to?
However, at this point any temp job could be useful, as long as it paid the bills, given the current situation.
Oh, jez.
Do
Not
Do
This
it's the worse job in the world. worse than fast food.
1. This is a strictly a casual temp job. If you're lucky enough to get consistent work, it's a pittance. It's probably not consistent however even within a particular week, and if you're not super-fast, or not willing to do extrodinary hours, has no return.
2. it's mindless. If you think doing stuff with a forklift is mindless, sitting down and timing restarts of an xbox over and over is worse.
3. You won't get to play games.
That's right
you're a game tester, but that's not "playing games"
you're given a script, and told to follow the script, and to TIME IT. that's it. it'll be specific, and unrewarding. don't do this, unless you don't have a problem with hating games and consoles, or compartmentalizing the mindless horror.
( wish i could find the blog post describing this. i'll update if i do)
Getting fired for an honest ACCIDENT is not cool.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Better than living in Spokane.
I agree on this. Unfortunately, as employers gain more and more of the upper hand (for example, as Unions go more out of style, and states/federal government gives more leeway to employers) it's going to be much harder to find jobs that will treat you fairly. At will employment is definitely horrible, but something tells me we'll be seeing more and more of it in the future. Great. =(
For the record, having met Shade, I am not saying that he falls into the incompetent category. I'm sure it was an honest mistake for him and he was treated unfairly. But the system itself is not unfair, only some people abuse it, but the alternative is, in my mind, worse. It sacrifices the freedom of businesses to protect their interests (and by extension, the public, because that's where a lot of businesses worry about liability), just to give more security to people who at least some of the time deserve what's coming to them. And you know what old Ben Franklin said about that...
Not that this is D&D, so don't take this as flamebait.
See, now the people who wrote futurama were on the right path.
You gotta do, what you gotta do.
and if you don't, you'll be fired.
out of a cannon
into the sun
Hopefully you'll find gainful employment soon. We're rooting for ya.
Don't know why you don't like it. I love it. If you're looking for work in the Seattle/Redmond area this is a great idea. I'd go with Microsoft more than Nintendo though. Worked both places and I like Microsoft soooo much more.
Very common.
Do you breathe? Are you alive? Can you fill out simple paperwork? Can you pass a drug screening?
If you answered yes to at least one, maybe two, of these questions, Nintendo Warehouse work is perfect for you!
I mean come on, they hired me didn't they?
Have you actually done it yourself? Because that's literally NOTHING like my experience temp testing for Nintendo. The closest thing to "scripts" we were given were checklists to make sure the games followed Nintendo's standards (ie, refer to controls by their correct terms). And we weren't timing anything. The job was pretty steady: I worked for a month, had a week off, worked 6 weeks, two weeks off, another 4 weeks, etc.. And that was just normal lot-check - when a big Nintendo game comes out, Nintendo generally wants people to test just that game. I got to test Zelda: Majora's Mask for 6 weeks, then the PAL build for another 4. And for that, at first we were told to just play the game for a few days, after which we were assigned different areas of the game to test (including a couple people assigned to play the game from beginning to end). No scripts, just play that area trying to find bugs, writing them up and later on regressing them in future builds of the game. Then the area assignments would get switched around to give areas another set of eyes. Then in the last week we were set free to play the game as we wished to try and crash it and find any bugs we could.
No, it's not just playing games all the time for fun - but I still found it a fun and relaxing job, and at the time it paid almost double minimum-wage, which is pretty darn good for an entry level position. It was way better than working retail. And of course if you do it long enough (and actually try to find bugs rather than sit there goofing around), it's pretty easy to transition into a full-time tester (ie not contract) for Nintendo.
And tester is one of the main ways into the gaming industry, it's a great beginning of a career path.
Personally, no, I admit that I haven't (although I do write automated tests for a living, which has it's own issues as a job, as do most jobs)
And there are probably groups of these that aren't completely sucky. That said, I've read descriptions of people who have done it, for third parties that contract manpower out to microsoft (If I could find it, I'd post one of the more notable ones). While it might not suck 24x7, it's just as likely that you'll wind up spending a day rebooting an xbox over and over, and noting down how often it failed, or how long it took to boot, etc.
It may well be no worse than doing data entry for you, and you might not find it bad personally, but it's not a job I'd be able to imagine aspiring to. The main drawback is that it seems to have little job security, particularly in that you need to turn up at the crack of dawn to get considered (at this particular facility that I've read about, anyway.) I guess I desire more job security in general.
Meth Lab!