Dec 17 2008World Of Warcraft Players Discriminated Against In The Workplace, Also, Life

wow

oh.
ahaha get it.

"face palm"

I agree whole heartedly.

Its true, Hell I can count more than a handful of WoW players who were in the same college dropped out because of that game.

...so sad.

We don't hire WOW players at our work either, not becuase of the whole attension span, sleep thing though, we just think they are a bunch of fags.

Actually there is a big group of Guild Wars players at our work. Not me, I don't get any of it.

South Park episode was funny tho...

WTF? How about weeding out people that watch Lost or any reality show?

Focus?? How about when they stand at a cube wall for 45 minutes discussing the last episode of Survivor?

http://internetmiscellanea.blogspot.com/

I think being a miner, blacksmith, doctor, cook and fisherman (oh, and adventurer, explorer and bounty hunter) should qualify as one real world job. Is it working hard or hardly working? But seriously, you may see us holding a sign saying "WILL WORK 4 WOW GOLD".

dont worry these people will soon play themselves out of existence since they do not breed... and any of them that try will die at the hands of my +10 sword of pain

unless they have magic boots of escaping of course

Hey Sharla, your blog sucks. Quit posting your shit as a link, it's annoying and no one cares about the blog no one goes to.

obviously somebody (#6) plays WoW and will not be getting a job anytime soon.
i say WoW players should have to drink from their own drinking fountains as well.

@11 you can almost hear her tiny wow voice, OH NO GUYS there not gonna hire us anymore... guh

Ok I think we can come to some sort of compromise. We will start hiring the WoWers but then we no longer have to hire women anymore.
Which if you ask me they should have never left the kitchen. Am I right fellas huh…god I’m so alone

When we interview people for positions at my company, 4-5 people will spend an hour each with the candidate. Most people focus on technical issues, or experience, etc. I never ask job related questions. I only focus on personality and communication skills. I'd rather work with someone who wasn't 100% qualified, but could learn the job, than I would with someone who write textbooks on the subject but is an insufferable jackoff to have around the office.

A guy who says he plays WoW more than a few hours a month is never getting past my desk. Same goes for someone who obsesses about how Microsoft is evil, Apple is evil, Capitalism is evil, etc. Any sign of unreasonable nutjobbery and the candidate is blackballed.

That's called "life in the real world"...something we shouldn't be surprised WoW players are unfamiliar with.

Not a wow player here, but:

I know of a major software company that has a guild of over 40 people. Most of the people I know in that guild have a masters degree or greater and it includes men and women.

I disagree for the simple fact that most middle and upper management in modern day America have their heads far, far up each other’s asses. When considering who does what work, its a wash in the end. Most major corporations can't even balance their checkbooks these days.

What is more dangerous, someone that plays a game or a blame shifting cheese dick that works at an executive level? What will piss you off more- a wow player or ANY techical customer service rep that is already employed?

I discriminate against ninjas, they f***ing piss me off. F***ing shurikans everywhere, oh look, is that a log? No, it's another goddamn ninja, they're like vermin... and they steal my Pocky.

When my ex-girlfriend was playing WoW I thought it would be funny to 'please' her while she was playing. It went fine until my fine expertise caused her to lose focus on the game and she took serious damage in some stupid battle.

Let's just say, she hit me so hard that I still have bruises. I even have a permanent dent in my skull from the corner of the keyboard she hit me with!

@16. I'm sorry Champ, I ate your chocolate covered squirrel. It didn't taste like pocky at all.

When I interview people for positions I usually just start out with some of my favorites (69, doggy, reverse cowgirl...) and see what kind of response I get before I start in with the "exotics", cleveland steamer, rusty trombone, the dolphin...

@17 well atleast you didnt take it away from here and she shot you... but if she had you would have atleast had an article written about you

I read somewhere their periods attract bears. Bears can smell the menstruation.

Why would anyone admit this kind of nerdy shameful shit while trying to attain employment?

Well, that's just great. You hear that, GW? Bears. Now you're putting the whole interwebs in jeopardy.

I tried WoW on free trial after much downloads and installing patches. I got attacked by wolves and had to make my ghost fly back to my body to to.. yet again be attacked by wolves. I don't get the appeal of that game.

i descriminate against them on a daily basis

why wouldn't you? they are f***ing speds those people

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was looking for work, and put on a sports jacket and big boy shoes. He asked one of his former bosses how he looked and was told - cut the beard and ponytail. You look like a hippie in a jacket.

I know people who play world of warcraft and they aren't bad workers. The biggest slackers I see are people who can't pull their eyes from Facebook or any other social networking site. They must spend about half the time at their desks poking people and browsing for "cool groups" that totally express their thought on a random topic.

Way to stereotype. My boyfriend and I are both casual players. As in, when we have REAL free time to play and we definitely don't think about it 24/7 or lose sleep over it. That's ridiculous.

It's funny though because I was just reading an article (WHICH I SENT TO THE GW) about how MMOs and games in general are basically making people perform better. You know... the ones who are smart enough to know it's just a game and that life is a nice thing that needs tending too every once in a while. As much as it sucks, I know.

F***ing retards.

@24 ur doin it rong

P.S. Read these. Srsly
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/20/warcraft-identity-of.html#previousp
http://werblog.com/2006/02/games-as-the-real-social-software-2/

What about you people who post on the geekologie all day?

Damn story is up for 3 seconds and its frist flurst fail f*** fake obama shoes and stuff. Sometimes I think its the same 4 idiots in the GWs office who post under assumed names.

PS - DAISY SUCKS BUT MCGLOIN SWALLOWS

@19
The Cleveland Steamer and the Rusty Trombone are both tried and true classics indeed...
But the dolphin? I've never come across the Dolphin....

Ahh it's good to be home.

I sure missed visiting this site every hour of my regular days & now its back to normal. I thought a lot about Daisy & his posts, GW's whoring of toykoflash and random lego happenings - - and I'm jizz'n that it's all still the same. I even said 'pew pew' once when it wa... seemed appropriate. (told a bouncer at a nightclub I was gonna pew pew my way in) Though nobody laughed at me I did think of geekologie, then went home & cried a little

I missed you guys, and I love this station. Happy holiday's from me =)
(cept for the firstys, they're still ghey)

@30 The dolphin is when you you're hittin' it from behind and you try to, ever so gently, sliiiide it into the third input and she says "eh-eh eh-eh-eh-eh"

I've brought the game and played it for one week... then I uninstalled it.

World of Warcraft seriously sucks.

Their "quests" and storylines was just f***ing poor and stupid. So stupid that the pattern of the storyline in quests REPEATS over again in different area.

That has been a few years ago since I played it... I'm still wondering why the f*** people are still playing that stupid horse-shit game.

WoW pretty much ruined how MMO's games should be played.
F*** you, Blizzard.

I play WoW, and I love it! I also find it facynating how people that dont play WoW constantly feels an urge to state so. Like they're left out of the club and are screaming for some kind of anti-club.

WoW is the biggest game of all time cause it apeals to such a wide audience. And if you knock you heads together you too might realize that means WoW players are alot more than anti social virgins without jobs.

I myself manage to take a computer engineering degree while having a hobby on the side. Wether the hobby biking, watching reality shows, drink beer, play WoW, or all of them, is irrelevant. Cause I got more up my sleeves to get me employed than internet surfing and attention trolling... and WoW :)

This is nothing but ignorant generalization from the employers side, and shouldn't be taken as anything more or less.

I've been following this blog for a few days now, and I love Daisy's gimmick.

I <3 Daisy

(Please be a cute chick)

@35 - Way to self promote daisy. I can tell that fake post, you got your shadows all wrong.

Although it may smell of discrimination, profiling, and downright ignorance to us gamers; the recruiter does have a strong basis for their misplaced, if not dumb, decision.

Even though I'm a Uni student with a good scholarship, work on weekends at an IT firm, I would be lying if I said that my hours playing World of Warcraft doesn't affect my performance. Oftentimes, a raid would go off schedule and I'll be late for class the next day. To catch up with my guild, I'd farm wow gold for my raiding gear during work hours. My boss doesn't mind, but I know I'm projecting a negative image.

I know it sucks to be branded a no-good MMO player, but it is because of the extreme minorities in our community that we're discriminated as such.

Actually, ha, I was told that World of Warcraft is what got me my job.

I'm actually installing world of warcraft right now! I think its a great way to keep in touch with friends who live far away.

But then again, I probably wouldn't admit I played the game if a potential employer asked me (unless that employer was somehow related to video games).

I f***ing hate this game!
My bf rather to be playing this shit instead of being with me

:@

Discriminated!!!! yes, i know what people are thinking. and its not reality. Welcome to reality. If its not SAID out loud, its happening anyways. perhaps thats how people would like it. eat your virtual cake and fail another interview.

i'm a victim! f*** your WOW :)

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.

This happened in a scene from the movie Tender Dracula. The drunk red headed actress is bandaging the foot of the mute resurrected ex husband of Dracula's wife with strips of her dress, after he has chopped his own toe off while cutting wood carelessly with an axe. She sings while doing this, as it seems to her to be the most appropriate thing to do.

She then offers him a lollypop, providing he calms down.
Later in the film she is found to have been murdered by him with an axe to the back. Although the events are presented as unconnected, one could suppose that the first served as motive for the second.

#14....... how do i get an interview at your job????

#40, I would gladly pork you in the asshole while your boyfriend sits there not paying attention to you. I bet he would not even notice, I mean me porking you in the butt would make up for that much needed attention right????

Feces.

This just in: World of Warcraft players discriminated against in having a life, and also by hot women.

Ach I just read the actual title for the post. Apologies for just skimming the article and repeating jokes already made.

#40. Franchesca:

Forget your boyfriend.

I'm too cheap ta play

@#14

If you're such a hotshot powerful exec with a keen eye for weeding out such apparently undesirable WoW players, how come you're spending your time commenting on the Geekologie blog?

It seems ridiculously short sighted to deny a qualified candidate employment because you have decided the amount of time they spend playing a video game constitutes addiction, especially when you can't really get anywhere in a video game these days if you only play it for 4-5 hours a month. So what you're saying basically is "If you play video games, prepare to die in poverty".

You, sir...are a massive tool.

@50

To be honest man, I can't help but agree with a lot of what he's saying. I used to play WoW about a year ago and EVERYONE I knew was pretty much addicted to it - that doesn't necessarily mean playing 12 hours a day, but always thinking of WoW, always talking about WoW, never wanting to do anything but play WoW...honestly, we were all the same.

Now I'm at Uni and have a lot of technical as well as creative skills and consider myself at the mo to be one the way towards being a reasonably well-rounded potential employee. But in all honesty, if I was employing somebody...would I employ myself or any of my dozen or so friends back then that were playing WoW to different degrees? No. Not a chance in hell - and some of them are crazy intelligent in different ways. But intelligence and aptitude doesn't matter when your focus and efforts are constantly on a game.

Sad but true I think. Anyway, that's just my opinion.

Meh. I don't play WoW, but I know plenty of people who do. The majority of them are well adjusted people who don't let the game interfere with their work life because they know that without a job there is no WoW. There are a few that take it way too far, but every group has that 10-15% of people who are over the top about something. I mean, for every one fanatical WoW player there's probably someone who will spend 60% of their time on chatrooms, watching online shows, or the like.

Oh wait... that's not in the spirit of the chat threads is it? Ok- fake, photoshop, troll, troll, smex, frist!

I used to play wow and i was a bit full on when i played. I look at it now as a time of shame. Let us all quit and get better lives.

I agree with the recruiter

Putting in less than 100% effort at the work place isn't a problem relegated strictly to WoW players. It's a fact of life for emplyees of all companies regardless of interests outside the work place. Either you're going waste work time researching magical armor and stunlock combos or you're going to waste it researching sports statistics and points spreads. Maybe even both if you're REALLY talented. Ascribing these qualities to only WoW players is a crappy generalization at best.

Case and point: Fantasy Football.

Better question, why in the hell would you discuss your video gaming habits during an interview? If your hobby is beer pong, you don't mention that shit either. Morons. Only hobbies to dicuss in an interview are PLAYING team sports, charity work, creative arts, martial arts, etc. If you are talking about your "vices" during an interview, you are an asshat. I agree with 14, if i sense asshattery during the interview, I put that resume in the pile that leads to nowhere.

@56 I agree. Regardless of whether or not these assumptions about WoW players are true, why the hell are you bringing up video games in a job interview??

You're all f***ing noobs...duel me in game....i will f*** you all up so bad...you will all know the power of the mighty HORDE!!!

haha

@40

You are not doing it right.

I can help you practice though. ;p

@38, thats bs. you were lied to. you got your job because your sort of hot. now stop playing WoW and make out with me.

yea and #40 too. dump your bf. youre mine.

Although I don't agree with discrimination, many people I work with can be described as preoccupied and habitually having erratic sleeping schedules. I probably wouldn't hire some WoW fanboy unless I had no other candidates with his qualifications or better. Discrimination is a slippery slope. You can discriminate based on things like WoW, you just don't admit it.

I would fire that recruiter. :)

I think it's a little extreme to say you won't hire someone SPECIFICALLY for playing Warcraft. People can get obsessed with anything. I have a friend who can't stop knitting for Christ sake.

I play WoW and definitely went through a phase where I couldn't turn it off, but I think like most people, I play when I'm home and have some free time, but I also have a real life too.

Some people stay out drinking too late, some people play WoW too late, some people watch tv too late.

I suppose if you go in and say "omg I love warcraft so much I wanna f*** it" then they shouldn't hire you.

Oh and all that stuff about it making you "more productive" or whatever is bull crap. It's a video game. It exists solely to be a fun escapist time-waster.

But I still think it's weird to just single out WoW players. You know?

@58. YOU are the person they are talking about not hiring, bro.

Don't worry. I'm an IT manager and I only hire WoW players. So I would guess that is balances out.

44. Ginormagantuan:

Go pork Daisy.

Blah my bf plays WOW every freakin day! I love him 2 death but sometimes I want to smash his computer into a million lil pieces :) He has a great full time job and performs well there so I don't agree with this but w.e. This is life lol people will discriminate about any little thing they can.

@68 His work life is good, his WoW life is good, how is his sex life? LOL

lol ha good one = AWESOME

click on my name to find out

@70.

Jesus Christ. You could have spared me the three minutes and just said that your boyfriend's sex life is tragic.

Anyways, as someone who also interviews people, I'm with the dude up there who just talks to people to find out if they're douchebags or not. WoW junkies, Fantasy Football fairies, Geekologie groupies, Facebook meth-addicts (easily the most embarassing one of the bunch, IMO).. You can't hope to stop them. They're everywhere. You just gotta find the one who's not a complete cunt.

I see some Warhammer Online there.

*shrugs* I play WoW, and since starting, i've been promoted from grunt to supervisor. I've been placed over other supervisors that have been there decades longer than I have.

Of course, when I'm at work, I'm thinking about work. Unfortunately, when i'm playing WoW, i'm thinking about work. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Mmmm, Yes, Begone WoW. Begone WoW'ers.

This article is quite amusing and sad. Also all the self righteous people here that say they won't hire somebody because of a hobby they have make me laugh. Theres no difference between somebody who sits at home in private and plays video games than somebody who goes out and gets drunk/does drugs every night, or how about we compare the people that play sports games on XBOX for hours every night, or the people that stay up half way through the night playing Counter-strike, or the people with babies that are up all night tending to them. The list can go on and on. If you're going to discriminate for people that "cannot give 100% because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great, etc," do it for all reasons, don't pick and choose whatever sounds nice to you. On a side note, I have many many friends who play WoW quite a bit, including myself, and every single one of us is living a happy, responsible and fulfilling life. But if you want to Stereotype the mass majority of MMORPGers because of a select few, you need to grow up and get out of your little bubble that you call a perfect world. People have been playing online games for YEARS, way before WoW came out. But now that there's one out that is hugely advertised, and just about everyone has heard of.. suddenly online gamers are the root of all evil. Nice one guys, get your facts straight before you discriminate.

FRANCHESCA, I already tried to get daisy to let me pork her butt...... you sound like you need it more though, because fot he boyfriend not paying attention and all...... and because your name is Franchesca, it sounds italian and italian women for the most part love a good ol' booty probing session. so when and daisy, or both at the same time decide to come over my place and let me in them attention starved stink tubes of yours. Thumperchica you feel free to join in on the fun also.

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i didnt tell U to click on my name now did I. save yourself a lifetime on being pathetic :)
tragic lol that's a gooden luv it
ps
you rock!*

@70 & 77

So you're sex life is so good that you have to post videos of yourself stripping on Youtube to get attention from guys?

The fact of the matter is if you can't convince your boyfriend to bang you instead of playing WoW you have one (possibly all) of three problems.

1.) You suck in bed.
2.) You're not attractive.
3.) He's gay.

I wouldn't hire anyone who played WoW simply because everytime they called in "sick" I would wonder if they were just sitting on their asses at home playing WoW.

lol @ 78 dal your awesome! and psychic those are all the reasons yay! and you would know bc u were nosey and peeked hehe lol those videos are things i made for people you idiot :) but hey you are freakin COOL and AWESOME bc you come on message boards pickin on people. your mommy would be proud that you grew up to be such an asshole yay! ur so cool that u didn't even post ur ugly photo on here, sweet. but i linked to ur website :)
lol strippin? u have no eyes :)

signed the 500 pound disgusting lesbian
muah! smooches

i dont think ur sarcasm registered for me
try again plz

Here's an idea; play all the WoW you want, just don't tell your potential employer at a job interview. Not too hard.

@76 You need to play wow. might help with those sentence structuring problems you are having!

1. Instead of hiring wow players.. hire crack addicts.. they pay attention way better then any online gamer.

2. Hire Any American.. they are awesome as people.. but do it soon as they will no longer exist as a country, after Israel invades Gaza.

I think Jarataur will solve our problem if ever because he only hires WOW players. Hurray, our savior! Jarataur, aren't you tempted to install wow game in your office to take advantage of farming wow gold since you are the IT manager? I'm just curious ; P

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