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Gaming at Work

Do you game at work?

  • Yes

    Votes: 60 28.4%

  • No

    Votes: 151 71.6%
  • Total voters
    211
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PiratePowWow

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Do you game at work? (other than solitaire, minesweep etc)







If so,

How many hours a day?
What games?
How do you keep IT from catching you?
 
I used to at my last job. My duty was to help customers with media equipment in the classrooms during the evening on a school campus. As there weren't many night classes I saw on average 2 to 3 customers per 30 hour week.

Due to the lack of work to perform, it was deemed acceptable for anyone performing the duty to play games to keep from falling asleep or abandoning the post out of boredom. As long as games were on a personal laptop and the employee dropped everything the second a customer walked in, nobody cared.

My routine was to come in and get an update from my boss about the goings on and if there was anything I should expect that night. Then I'd pull out my laptop and set up shop for the next six hours. Almost immediately after I showed up, my supervisor and whatever other daytime part timer was there would head home leaving me to fend for myself.

After graduating from college, I had to give the job up. The pay matched work and there was no way I could maintain a living with it. So I'm job hopping now looking to settle into a new career.
 
I dont know how it is for people with real jobs, but when I worked at my school's computer lab helping stupid people open web browsers and print papers, I spent most of the time either gaming or talking with friends. I got fired eventually but it was a fun year lol.
 
we have an employee urban terror match pretty much every friday for a couple hours. Company owner plays to
 
Yes, but I don't work in an office environment. Plus It's my computer I'm gaming on.Nobody to look over my shoulder.
Nothing wrong with a little TF2 while "observing" the contractor digging with a back hoe.
 
I voted no. I'm a web content/community manager for an online game company [casual game, I work for Slingo]

It's an open office, so everyone knows what everyone is doing. Although every other friday we get a game of Quake 3 going and I get to pwn some co-workers, haha.
 
I voted no....... I plan to when we get out of our transferring phase, but then it'll be console, not pc gaming.and I'm not gonna touch the network either, not worth getting fired over.
 
Which category do flash games fall under? I can't install anything on my computer since its heavily locked down, but if it'll load in a browser I can play it. Also have had limited success playing old games that don't need to be 'installed' and could run off a thumb drive or something.
 
Yes, but I work from my own computer. Every once in a while a game seems to make an appearance.
 
I work at the back parts counter in a Mazda dealership and with the recent problems the industry has been facing, I've had a lot of time to slack off. I'm only as busy as the service department, so if no cars are coming in I have very little to do. I usually play some golden oldies like Dungeon Master II and The Incredible Machine. I was playing Beneath a Steel Sky for a while, but I'm really out of touch with adventure games.

On weekdays I usually play maybe 2-3 hours out of the total 8; mostly because the manager is around and the wholesale callers keep me busy. On Saturdays though I wish I had a gaming laptop because it can get pretty lonely; I might only do an hour or two of actual work. :D
 
Yes, i'm also IT. When there's work, they want it done yesterday, in between work, you've got nothing to do but they want you alert and on full standby anyway. Department head tolerates it coz it's better than snoring.

When the supervisor saw one of my coworkers playing RagnarokOnline and i was at the other end of the room passing my items to him. Her hair stood on ends when she found out the guy my coworker was talking to was me. Imagine a chatty guy that's nice, helpful, regularly taking newbies tours of the game, and uses lots of smiley faces. Then finding out he's Spock IRL.
 
Damn, there's a lot of people that voted Yes.

I work manual labor (unloading trucks), so there's no time to slack off.
 
I'm a mechanic at a domestic dealership. I've been known during the winter to bring in my laptop and raid. Winter is the slowest time of year for us. Generally though I have a PSP and a DS that have a drawer dedicated to em in my toold box.

The parts dept though. The parts manager is a guild leader he and the front counter guys play all year round.

(EDIT) Generally at our dealer the "IT guy" is usually the person that says he knows the most about PC's. So in our case it's one of the mechanics.
 
Man, this just reminds me of "The Office" episode where they play CoD in the office. "You don't snipe in Carrington! I'm gonna kill you for real."
 
As a mechanic working in an aerospace manufacturing plant, there isn't much opportunity to play PC games. If I had a desk job it might be another story, however.
 
This shouldn't be a yes/no answer. If it's "I game at work, regardless of what I have to do", then no wonder unemployment keeps rising, but if it is "I game at work, when I don't have much to do", it's a whole different story.

Either way, I voted no. Work is work and I like what I do. I game at home and if it's slow at work, I take the initiative to learn new technologies, in order to improve my knowledge, which is good in the long term.
 
None, although I work in I.T. I would probably get sacked if they caught me.

I have Q6600 at work but the gfx card sucks.

I'll have to make do with the forums instead!
 
All the good stuff is blocked here sadly. I was able to play portal the flash version last week, but now its blocked.
 
We are not allowed to have fun at our jobs in between our intense work schedules.
 
DoD employee...no gaming on military computers.

But the next room over has my 360 Rockband/GH in it and we LAN party almost every weekend.
 
No; linux SA here -- maybe a bit of listening on my friends other co-workers through vent / voip when they're playing.
 
Absolutely not and I actually hate it when people do. Got a new guy here and within the first week I've already caught him sleeping and playing games. Yeah.. he's on his way out.
 
Sure check my WoW auctions all the time, play some galciv2 sometimes a quick FPS, nothing multiplayer however. I'm IT here and only do stuff i can walk away from if someone needs help. Some days we are to busy for anything but work but many times we are waiting on computers or people so it passes the time. Spend maybe 3 or 4 hours a week gaming at work. Used to spend a lot more but we have several projects going on that are keeping us busy.
 
Skizzy said:
Damn, there's a lot of people that voted Yes.

I work manual labor (unloading trucks), so there's no time to slack off.
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Looks like it's mostly IT's. The thing about us is that even tho it looks like we slack off a lot, our work shift is actually insane. 8 hours is only the 'daily minimum required', if something goes wrong on the server, you have to wait until everyone goes home before you can shut it down for troubleshooting, and we're also on call on weekends/dayoffs. God help us if the server that starts acting up is with a triple shift department, that means you monitor and keep it working no matter what, and come in on a weekend to do a full diagnostic.

If we do our job right, the problem passes, programs are re-written to monitor new critical stats and we get to sit around relaxing until one of my monitoring utilities raises another red flag, or the management or client wants to add something new to the system and then it's another hell week. Let off steam whenever you can or you'll burn out fast.

@Seelenlos
Just curious. When was the last time you've had an 8 hour shift?:D
 
Sly said:
Looks like it's mostly IT's. The thing about us is that even tho it looks like we slack off a lot, our work shift is actually insane. 8 hours is only the 'daily minimum required', if something goes wrong on the server, you have to wait until everyone goes home before you can shut it down for troubleshooting, and we're also on call on weekends/dayoffs. God help us if the server that starts acting up is with a triple shift department, that means you monitor and keep it working no matter what, and come in on a weekend to do a full diagnostic.

If we do our job right, the problem passes, programs are re-written to monitor new critical stats and we get to sit around relaxing until one of my monitoring utilities raises another red flag, or the management or client wants to add something new to the system and then it's another hell week. Let off steam whenever you can or you'll burn out fast.

@Seelenlos
Just curious. When was the last time you've had an 8 hour shift?:D
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What's your hourly wage? I've been considering making the switch from software to networking.




I haven't really done any gaming at work. My old job had an xbox360, so we'd play CoD 4 or NHL 08 at lunch. On our last day there, the rest of the co-ops and I conviced IT to give us permission to install quake 3 on our linux boxes We spent the last two hours of that day in a 12 man deathmatch. I miss that job! In a previous summer job (L2 support for IT... fixing stuff if the call centre couldn't) my co-worker and I watched a couple of movies. She wasn't much of a gamer, so that was out.

I can't do it at my new job at all... too strict.

In university, there's a group of guys that always play CSS or Halo during classes. That drives me nuts. In high school, we used to play CS 1.6 and Quake 3 for quite a while... until the guys that installed the games on the network got suspended.
 
I play flash games sometimes. Usually at work I just sit on Gtalk/Aim all day though.
 
Working in a small company for the win, I can kinda play whenever and whatever my laptop can handle. Lately I've been WoWing, its mostly auctioning and some farming, but yea. Also installed Starcraft. Haven't had time to play that though, can't play in windowed mode ...
 
tuksonrider said:
A couple hours a day.

I am IT... for the gooberment.

Your tax dollars at play.
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ROTFL!!! Thats a good one. I don't play games, but I certainly goof off surfing the net. Its good to be IT and thus do not have to go through our proxy web server. Good thing everyone who works here has no idea what a proxy is LOL. :)
 
Sly said:
@Seelenlos
Just curious. When was the last time you've had an 8 hour shift?:D
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We do fairly well at getting out of here on time, I'd say I'm here an average of 50 hours a week. University so the atmosphere is a lot more laid back than the real world. The only times we have huge emergency problems is when a virus somehow gets in and then we scramble for a few days to get things fixed. Doesn't happen often however. Sometimes a patch issues, now and then the servers might screw up but for the past few years we have only had two or three times when we have had to pull 15+ hour days.

My job is to build, maintain the computers, install software and help the faculty staff when they need it....you would think people have several degrees would understand by now how to copy a file from one location to another.

Trust me i am very thankful to work here and not in the real world with a lot of you guys :)
 
I work in a Bookmakers and with the financial situation alot of people have better things to spend there money on than horses, I also work the later shift 5-10pm usually and its only part time as I'm still in college. I usually play some flash games because it can get pretty lonely and boring so keeps me busy and then if it gets busy I can just drop it. The PC in here has no restrictions and have some TV's with sport on so I usually just watch football(soccer) if its quiet. Its a handy number but not a career!
 
I'm reading your thread courtesy of an integrated graphics in a dell, so no heh. I discuss the gaming industry and games at work. play them at home.
 
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