Saturday
Jan212006
Macintoshes and the pursuit of a pirates hat.
I'm going to get in trouble later this week at work.
We just got some new employee hotel propaganda in the office done by graphic artists. How do I know this? Simply put, there's a screenshot of Safari and the classic one button mouse of my youth. Despite the fact our software isn't exactly mac friendly. I should probably digress - the propaganda, and my opinions of the system.
In World of Warcraft you can become respected by other groups you've meet by doing quests or giving them things. This is called reputation, and that process is called a rep grind. This is a popular past time, one I've even been guilty of, because the rewards are worth the time and materials.
An example for your fun and profit, a player named "imagirlrogue" decided "she" wanted a pirate hat. Why would she want it? Well, no one else had it, (they didn't want it because the cost for it was too expensive.) What was the cost? An insane amount of grinding. You had to go from "absolutely ****ing hated" to "I would take a bullet for you" from this small group of pirates – and the only way to do that is to kill their enemies. lots of them.
"She" has killed so many of their enemies, who happen to be friends with EVERYONE else she is labeled a mortal enemy. Was it worth it? She would say "Yup!"
My hotels incentive program gets you to enroll as many people a day as possible into their "free" program that gives them lower rates and a few other things. It's primarily been "we'll give you a dollar under the table for every person you sign up" and I can't see how it's much changed. Oh, I'm sorry, it has a graph. Now we get to see our monthly numbers, in hopes of inspiring us. Where is my reward: money, pride, social responsibility? I'm never going to enroll as many people as the Company HQ wants me to for exactly that reason. People will do seemingly stupid things, I among them, for rewards tantalizing enough. I will not sell you a special club membership for lower rates and if I feel like it, a free breakfast (why yes, I do have such power, ah, being a night manager is good.)
Your homework assignment if you choose to do it is wonder why you do a task you consider monotonous. Send me an email
We just got some new employee hotel propaganda in the office done by graphic artists. How do I know this? Simply put, there's a screenshot of Safari and the classic one button mouse of my youth. Despite the fact our software isn't exactly mac friendly. I should probably digress - the propaganda, and my opinions of the system.
In World of Warcraft you can become respected by other groups you've meet by doing quests or giving them things. This is called reputation, and that process is called a rep grind. This is a popular past time, one I've even been guilty of, because the rewards are worth the time and materials.
An example for your fun and profit, a player named "imagirlrogue" decided "she" wanted a pirate hat. Why would she want it? Well, no one else had it, (they didn't want it because the cost for it was too expensive.) What was the cost? An insane amount of grinding. You had to go from "absolutely ****ing hated" to "I would take a bullet for you" from this small group of pirates – and the only way to do that is to kill their enemies. lots of them.
"She" has killed so many of their enemies, who happen to be friends with EVERYONE else she is labeled a mortal enemy. Was it worth it? She would say "Yup!"
My hotels incentive program gets you to enroll as many people a day as possible into their "free" program that gives them lower rates and a few other things. It's primarily been "we'll give you a dollar under the table for every person you sign up" and I can't see how it's much changed. Oh, I'm sorry, it has a graph. Now we get to see our monthly numbers, in hopes of inspiring us. Where is my reward: money, pride, social responsibility? I'm never going to enroll as many people as the Company HQ wants me to for exactly that reason. People will do seemingly stupid things, I among them, for rewards tantalizing enough. I will not sell you a special club membership for lower rates and if I feel like it, a free breakfast (why yes, I do have such power, ah, being a night manager is good.)
Your homework assignment if you choose to do it is wonder why you do a task you consider monotonous. Send me an email
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