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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie!          Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 933 days Last activity: 933 days |
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| Please don't IM me with random shit during the weeknights. I'm really really busy at work, and cannot help, nor talk, nor anything else with you. The only exceptions to this rule are my real life friends (i.e., people I know in real life).
Work pays me to do my work, so they're priority #1. And, all of my assignments are vital to company operation because my uppers depend on me to get them done. Ergo, I can't read things for you, I can't just talk about using chocolate as lubricant, I CAN'T FUCKING TELL YOU WHAT THE FUCK GAME I'M WORKING ON! If you keep bothering me over and over again, you're gonna get blocked. And, not just for a while, but forever. I may be working at night, but I'm not working on piddly tester shit. I'm an acting lead. I have documentation to create from scratch, documentation to update from standards set two years ago, people to train, and subordinates to assign tasks and monitor their progress. I don't have time for FX to ask me to read something or watch something. I don't have time for XMTS to ask me stupid questions about anything that he can look up on Google. I'm not your teacher, I'm not your tutor. But, for the next few months, and especially towards the end of school quarters and work fiscal years/quarters, I am going to be extremely busy. So, I can't just shoot the breeze or endulge things with you. So, if I tell you to fuck off, don't ask why, just do it. |
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Makura Since: 01-22-05 From: The restaurant at the end of the universe.... Since last post: 5886 days Last activity: 5151 days |
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| Wow...so I don't get stuff like this. I won't judge you, Zabuza. I find it really odd when people are like, "I can't talk to anyone on AIM I'm to busy." Then what the fuck are you doing being signed on?. If you're talking to co-workers than use a seperate screen name or ghost yourself.
I may not know anything about anything, but you being busy doesn't give you the right to be an ass. And I think people are afraid to say that to you because for some inexplicable reason they want you to like them. |
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DSMagnum Woodsman  Since: 11-06-05 Since last post: 6171 days Last activity: 6116 days |
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Originally posted by Zabuza OMFG WHO KNEW. Really though, I understand what you mean. I can be busy sometimes and people will just IM me. I just tell them I'm busy, and not be an ass about it. That way they'll just shut up for a while. Another thing is that you could put up an away message saying that you're busy. Most people will realize that you don't want to/can't talk at the moment so they'll leave you be. However, for those who don't, then you can be an ass and call them stupid for not reading the Away Message. But you don't have to go ballistic because you can't simply say "Sorry, I'm busy." when someone starts talking to you about nothing important. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 933 days Last activity: 933 days |
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| See, you seem to think that saying, "I'm busy" suffices. If it did, I'd just use that. It doesn't. I do tell people that I'm busy. It's the persistent people that don't get it that get my bad side. People like XMTS who continues to IM me in the background after telling him, "Sorry, I'm really busy right now." with replies like:
"What are you doing?", "What kind of work are you doing?", "Why are you busy right now?", "I'm bored and have nothing to do.", "Are you having a tea party?", "Why is the sky blue?". If it sufficed to have people understand that "Sorry, I'm busy" is "Please go away, I can't talk right now", then there'd be no purpose to this announcement. I know people want me to look over their written work and to view a film here and there, but understand that if you want me to do that--I can't do it right then and there. If you want that, e-mail it to me, and I'll get to it when I can. I don't even take my lunch break anymore. I eat at my cubicle while working. I'm basically the knowledge source for gaming certification standards for my company--both day and night shift. I have to clean up day shifts messes, do the producer's jobs because they don't know how, and finish my own assignments. Every night, five days a week. Any mistake could cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, easily. Do you know what it takes to submit a game for cell phone? Several hundreds of testing and programming hours, and several thousand dollars. Each certification testing fail is $1000 lost per build. We produce over 500 builds per month, with about 300 passing per month. That means we're losing about $200,000, at minimum, per month. My job is to prevent us from doing that. And, I'm on AIM because we have AIM Corporate, and we use it to communicate between each other at work because it's easier to do work that way (sending links from the server, asking questions to people that are in other areas of the company, asking people questions that are physically located in another country, etc.) I'm justified in being an ass all the time. It's my nature. But, this is mostly a general announcement to everyone. I'm quite busy at work, and I just need people to realize that. The frustration comes from getting messages like "I need to talk to you because the person I normally ask for this works at night now." Well, what the fuck do you think I'm doing? Just because I'm a game tester for Sony doesn't mean that I'm just piddling around. It's still work, and it requires my attention and concentration. So, I can't entertain questions about why chocolate is a bad lubricant, nor do I have the time to read something or watch something on YouTube for critique. I barely had enough time to do the Story Competition judging, and I didn't even finish that. Affairs of the board, and that of people that aren't quite adults yet, are not high priority in my life. As an adult (I'm almost 25), I have responsibilities and duties. You may think being QA for a mobile gaming company is easy--it's not. And, I'm not just a tester anymore. I'm a trainer, so I'm even more busy than ever before. We're laid out all weird too, so I'm always away from my cubicle. And, when I'm not away, I'd like to be able to accomplish some kind of work without being bothered. Also, I leave the IM up because I don't carry my cell phone with me to work. I have a work extension for that, but my friends (close personal ones) often reach me through AIM because they can't in any other way. This was mostly a general announcement. If you are really bored, try contacting me during the day...if you're lucky, I'll just be fucking around on the internet. It's the inconsiderate people that irk me, this is the purpose of this announcement. Also, I can't tell you what game I've worked on in the past because I'm legally bound by Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements. If you really want to know, you'll just have to search on your own. I value my career, and don't want to jeopardize it, so I'm incredibly serious about my work. Oh, and you don't know me *throws chair into audience*. So, this isn't just the oil change at the gas station or folding clothes at the Gap. I understand that Jiffy Lube is vital to our automobile economy, but an unfolded shirt isn't going to bring the economy to a screeching halt. (Last edited by Zabuza on 08-19-06 07:14 PM) |
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Makura Since: 01-22-05 From: The restaurant at the end of the universe.... Since last post: 5886 days Last activity: 5151 days |
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| Well. my apologies, Zabuza. I shouldn't have criticized your way of life. I hope your schedule lets up. | |||
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 933 days Last activity: 933 days |
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| It's not going to until the new fiscal year starts in September. Until then, I know it's a few weeks, I'm under a great deal of stress to finish a training manual that I'm writing entirely on my own, update several industry documentation on my own, train remaining members of the night crew, train the entire day crew, train the producers and assistant producer, and test builds of games.
And, I have finals next week at school, with no break in between quarters. I start the next quarter the following week, so that we can get two weeks of vacation in December. Woop-dee-fucking-doo. Did I mention I hate ITT Tech? |
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The Accidental Protege Iggy Koopa I\"m your accidental protege... The gift, the blood, the thrownaway...\" Since: 03-08-05 From: Marching on the city of Southern Cross Since last post: 1165 days Last activity: 1165 days |
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| Moved. (Last edited by The Shredder on 08-20-06 10:55 PM) |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 933 days Last activity: 933 days |
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| Ok, thank you. You people that bother me have at least taken into consideration that I am busy 24/7. Thanks again. |
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