Syncrosonix wrote...
the fact that blizzard's forums are infested with trolls, i think it's a good idea. they've been needing something to minimize the nonsense over there for some time now. the worst community in MMO gaming/online can be found in blizzard's world of warcraft forums.
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Syncrosonix wrote...
i've never liked their forums. the only people who are going to have a problem with it are the trolls and super paranoid people who never go outside.
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Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
i've never liked their forums. the only people who are going to have a problem with it are the trolls and super paranoid people who never go outside.
And females who would prefer not to be e-stalked. As well as anyone applying for a job who doesn't want to be linked to a forum, much less a gaming forum, much much less the wow forums.
Syncrosonix wrote...
as long as you don't post anything stupid, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. people have facebook, myspace, and other social networking accounts, and i'm sure employers search those accounts on a regular basis. blizzard has been needing something like that for some time now. their forums are very unpleasant.
Modifié par RinpocheSchnozberry, 06 juillet 2010 - 08:01 .
Syncrosonix wrote...
as long as you don't post anything stupid, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. people have facebook, myspace, and other social networking accounts, and i'm sure employers search those accounts on a regular basis. blizzard has been needing something like that for some time now. their forums are very unpleasant.
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Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
as long as you don't post anything stupid, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. people have facebook, myspace, and other social networking accounts, and i'm sure employers search those accounts on a regular basis. blizzard has been needing something like that for some time now. their forums are very unpleasant.
That's very wrong. There are people who delete their facebook accounts when looking for a job and it's not because they have stupid things on it. Everyone has some bias and prejudice whether they're conscious of it or not, and this is true for employers as well. If you're in an interracial relationship, your house is less than charming, your best friend has a shady look in his eye when he smiles. All of these things can be damaging if you like it or not. The less your interviewer knows about your personal life the better.
As well if you're going for a desk job where you'll be sitting behind a computer all day, being linked to a forum isn't going to look good on you no matter what.
Plus anyone who plays games often gets thrown into the lazy gamer stereotype. A few years ago I applyed for a part time job unloading a truck at a store and when I listed playing WoW as a hobby the lady doing the interview told me straight up she that she didn't believe I'd even show up to do the job. I never made that mistake again...
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Syncrosonix wrote...
i wouldn't have posted that as my hobby, either, and i've once made the mistake of hiring on some wowfreak. he only showed up on time the first few days. after that, he showed up late until i finally fired him a week and a half later. sadly, many of the people who play WoW are lazy, unmotivated, have extremely low or non-existant social skils, no foreseeable or realistic plans for their future, and some don't take orders very well, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
videogaming is NOT a productive hobby. put down something like reading, writing, playing some kind of sport, walking your dog, or helping your relatives at their house with housework. WoW has a bad stigma attached to it. playing that game as a hobby would be acceptable if you were applying for a job at gamestop or some other videogame outlet. it'd also be acceptable as a hobby for a job within the gaming industry.
besides, the only way some employer will figure out the person who's working for them, or is a potential candidate, plays warcrack is if they give specific info about what they do, where they work, live, what they look like, and all that crap. if you're intelligent, you won't put that stuff down. if you're real stupid, you'll post a scanned pic of your paystub.
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Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
i wouldn't have posted that as my hobby, either, and i've once made the mistake of hiring on some wowfreak. he only showed up on time the first few days. after that, he showed up late until i finally fired him a week and a half later. sadly, many of the people who play WoW are lazy, unmotivated, have extremely low or non-existant social skils, no foreseeable or realistic plans for their future, and some don't take orders very well, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
videogaming is NOT a productive hobby. put down something like reading, writing, playing some kind of sport, walking your dog, or helping your relatives at their house with housework. WoW has a bad stigma attached to it. playing that game as a hobby would be acceptable if you were applying for a job at gamestop or some other videogame outlet. it'd also be acceptable as a hobby for a job within the gaming industry.
besides, the only way some employer will figure out the person who's working for them, or is a potential candidate, plays warcrack is if they give specific info about what they do, where they work, live, what they look like, and all that crap. if you're intelligent, you won't put that stuff down. if you're real stupid, you'll post a scanned pic of your paystub.
You just proved my point. First off you were more than willing to throw most WoW players into the lazy category. Have you met most of them? And even if 90%+ of WoW players really were that lazy it doesn't mean the guy sitting in your office looking for a job is one of them. Even if the last 10 WoW players sitting in your office looking for a job were. As well how is playing a video game less productive than reading or playing a sport?
You clearly hold a bias against people who play WoW, and you're not alone in that. Truely I don't feel that within it's self is a bad thing. However when your real name becomes linked to the fact that you play the game you can't hide from it. You can't be seen for your work talents because somepeople can't see past the fact you play a game in your free time.
Syncrosonix wrote...
Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
i wouldn't have posted that as my hobby, either, and i've once made the mistake of hiring on some wowfreak. he only showed up on time the first few days. after that, he showed up late until i finally fired him a week and a half later. sadly, many of the people who play WoW are lazy, unmotivated, have extremely low or non-existant social skils, no foreseeable or realistic plans for their future, and some don't take orders very well, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
videogaming is NOT a productive hobby. put down something like reading, writing, playing some kind of sport, walking your dog, or helping your relatives at their house with housework. WoW has a bad stigma attached to it. playing that game as a hobby would be acceptable if you were applying for a job at gamestop or some other videogame outlet. it'd also be acceptable as a hobby for a job within the gaming industry.
besides, the only way some employer will figure out the person who's working for them, or is a potential candidate, plays warcrack is if they give specific info about what they do, where they work, live, what they look like, and all that crap. if you're intelligent, you won't put that stuff down. if you're real stupid, you'll post a scanned pic of your paystub.
You just proved my point. First off you were more than willing to throw most WoW players into the lazy category. Have you met most of them? And even if 90%+ of WoW players really were that lazy it doesn't mean the guy sitting in your office looking for a job is one of them. Even if the last 10 WoW players sitting in your office looking for a job were. As well how is playing a video game less productive than reading or playing a sport?
You clearly hold a bias against people who play WoW, and you're not alone in that. Truely I don't feel that within it's self is a bad thing. However when your real name becomes linked to the fact that you play the game you can't hide from it. You can't be seen for your work talents because somepeople can't see past the fact you play a game in your free time.
you can blame the many countless unmotivated sloths who play that game for giving it the stigma it has. how old are you? when you get some work experience under your belt, look back and think long and hard how productive playing world of warcraft is. there isn't anything productive about it. all you're doing is sitting on your ass and playing a stupid computer game with scripted boss fights. that's it. i encounter more and more people these days who want to sit on their ass all day, don't want to pull their own weight, expect to make top dollar, and then scream and cry when it's their ass on the chopping block. i have no problem letting go of unproductive sloths.
as for my name being posted on there, i don't really care because i haven't posted anything on their forums for over 2 years. what i was doing then and now are totally different.
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Tooneyman wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
i wouldn't have posted that as my hobby, either, and i've once made the mistake of hiring on some wowfreak. he only showed up on time the first few days. after that, he showed up late until i finally fired him a week and a half later. sadly, many of the people who play WoW are lazy, unmotivated, have extremely low or non-existant social skils, no foreseeable or realistic plans for their future, and some don't take orders very well, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
videogaming is NOT a productive hobby. put down something like reading, writing, playing some kind of sport, walking your dog, or helping your relatives at their house with housework. WoW has a bad stigma attached to it. playing that game as a hobby would be acceptable if you were applying for a job at gamestop or some other videogame outlet. it'd also be acceptable as a hobby for a job within the gaming industry.
besides, the only way some employer will figure out the person who's working for them, or is a potential candidate, plays warcrack is if they give specific info about what they do, where they work, live, what they look like, and all that crap. if you're intelligent, you won't put that stuff down. if you're real stupid, you'll post a scanned pic of your paystub.
You just proved my point. First off you were more than willing to throw most WoW players into the lazy category. Have you met most of them? And even if 90%+ of WoW players really were that lazy it doesn't mean the guy sitting in your office looking for a job is one of them. Even if the last 10 WoW players sitting in your office looking for a job were. As well how is playing a video game less productive than reading or playing a sport?
You clearly hold a bias against people who play WoW, and you're not alone in that. Truely I don't feel that within it's self is a bad thing. However when your real name becomes linked to the fact that you play the game you can't hide from it. You can't be seen for your work talents because somepeople can't see past the fact you play a game in your free time.
you can blame the many countless unmotivated sloths who play that game for giving it the stigma it has. how old are you? when you get some work experience under your belt, look back and think long and hard how productive playing world of warcraft is. there isn't anything productive about it. all you're doing is sitting on your ass and playing a stupid computer game with scripted boss fights. that's it. i encounter more and more people these days who want to sit on their ass all day, don't want to pull their own weight, expect to make top dollar, and then scream and cry when it's their ass on the chopping block. i have no problem letting go of unproductive sloths.
as for my name being posted on there, i don't really care because i haven't posted anything on their forums for over 2 years. what i was doing then and now are totally different.
I work with two WOW players and one of them is going for his PHD. You sir are a bigiot!
Syncrosonix wrote...
Tooneyman wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
i wouldn't have posted that as my hobby, either, and i've once made the mistake of hiring on some wowfreak. he only showed up on time the first few days. after that, he showed up late until i finally fired him a week and a half later. sadly, many of the people who play WoW are lazy, unmotivated, have extremely low or non-existant social skils, no foreseeable or realistic plans for their future, and some don't take orders very well, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
videogaming is NOT a productive hobby. put down something like reading, writing, playing some kind of sport, walking your dog, or helping your relatives at their house with housework. WoW has a bad stigma attached to it. playing that game as a hobby would be acceptable if you were applying for a job at gamestop or some other videogame outlet. it'd also be acceptable as a hobby for a job within the gaming industry.
besides, the only way some employer will figure out the person who's working for them, or is a potential candidate, plays warcrack is if they give specific info about what they do, where they work, live, what they look like, and all that crap. if you're intelligent, you won't put that stuff down. if you're real stupid, you'll post a scanned pic of your paystub.
You just proved my point. First off you were more than willing to throw most WoW players into the lazy category. Have you met most of them? And even if 90%+ of WoW players really were that lazy it doesn't mean the guy sitting in your office looking for a job is one of them. Even if the last 10 WoW players sitting in your office looking for a job were. As well how is playing a video game less productive than reading or playing a sport?
You clearly hold a bias against people who play WoW, and you're not alone in that. Truely I don't feel that within it's self is a bad thing. However when your real name becomes linked to the fact that you play the game you can't hide from it. You can't be seen for your work talents because somepeople can't see past the fact you play a game in your free time.
you can blame the many countless unmotivated sloths who play that game for giving it the stigma it has. how old are you? when you get some work experience under your belt, look back and think long and hard how productive playing world of warcraft is. there isn't anything productive about it. all you're doing is sitting on your ass and playing a stupid computer game with scripted boss fights. that's it. i encounter more and more people these days who want to sit on their ass all day, don't want to pull their own weight, expect to make top dollar, and then scream and cry when it's their ass on the chopping block. i have no problem letting go of unproductive sloths.
as for my name being posted on there, i don't really care because i haven't posted anything on their forums for over 2 years. what i was doing then and now are totally different.
I work with two WOW players and one of them is going for his PHD. You sir are a bigiot!
good for him. obviously he knows how to manage his fantasy world time with his real world time. i work in an industry that deals with government contracts. we don't have time for sloths and crybabies
Hayllee wrote...
Well, I'm already using my name plus an L, so it doesn't really matter to me. Meh, no one will believe my last name is real if I did use my actual real name. It looks like a typo. I don't really care if Bioware uses the idea, though many would lose their lovely usernames.
Syncrosonix wrote...
you can blame the many countless unmotivated sloths who play that game for giving it the stigma it has. how old are you? when you get some work experience under your belt, look back and think long and hard how productive playing world of warcraft is. there isn't anything productive about it. all you're doing is sitting on your ass and playing a stupid computer game with scripted boss fights. that's it. i encounter more and more people these days who want to sit on their ass all day, don't want to pull their own weight, expect to make top dollar, and then scream and cry when it's their ass on the chopping block. i have no problem letting go of unproductive sloths.
as for my name being posted on there, i don't really care because i haven't posted anything on their forums for over 2 years. what i was doing then and now are totally different.
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Tooneyman wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
Tooneyman wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
i wouldn't have posted that as my hobby, either, and i've once made the mistake of hiring on some wowfreak. he only showed up on time the first few days. after that, he showed up late until i finally fired him a week and a half later. sadly, many of the people who play WoW are lazy, unmotivated, have extremely low or non-existant social skils, no foreseeable or realistic plans for their future, and some don't take orders very well, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
videogaming is NOT a productive hobby. put down something like reading, writing, playing some kind of sport, walking your dog, or helping your relatives at their house with housework. WoW has a bad stigma attached to it. playing that game as a hobby would be acceptable if you were applying for a job at gamestop or some other videogame outlet. it'd also be acceptable as a hobby for a job within the gaming industry.
besides, the only way some employer will figure out the person who's working for them, or is a potential candidate, plays warcrack is if they give specific info about what they do, where they work, live, what they look like, and all that crap. if you're intelligent, you won't put that stuff down. if you're real stupid, you'll post a scanned pic of your paystub.
You just proved my point. First off you were more than willing to throw most WoW players into the lazy category. Have you met most of them? And even if 90%+ of WoW players really were that lazy it doesn't mean the guy sitting in your office looking for a job is one of them. Even if the last 10 WoW players sitting in your office looking for a job were. As well how is playing a video game less productive than reading or playing a sport?
You clearly hold a bias against people who play WoW, and you're not alone in that. Truely I don't feel that within it's self is a bad thing. However when your real name becomes linked to the fact that you play the game you can't hide from it. You can't be seen for your work talents because somepeople can't see past the fact you play a game in your free time.
you can blame the many countless unmotivated sloths who play that game for giving it the stigma it has. how old are you? when you get some work experience under your belt, look back and think long and hard how productive playing world of warcraft is. there isn't anything productive about it. all you're doing is sitting on your ass and playing a stupid computer game with scripted boss fights. that's it. i encounter more and more people these days who want to sit on their ass all day, don't want to pull their own weight, expect to make top dollar, and then scream and cry when it's their ass on the chopping block. i have no problem letting go of unproductive sloths.
as for my name being posted on there, i don't really care because i haven't posted anything on their forums for over 2 years. what i was doing then and now are totally different.
I work with two WOW players and one of them is going for his PHD. You sir are a bigiot!
good for him. obviously he knows how to manage his fantasy world time with his real world time. i work in an industry that deals with government contracts. we don't have time for sloths and crybabies
Then why you on here?
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Crippledcarny wrote...
Syncrosonix wrote...
you can blame the many countless unmotivated sloths who play that game for giving it the stigma it has. how old are you? when you get some work experience under your belt, look back and think long and hard how productive playing world of warcraft is. there isn't anything productive about it. all you're doing is sitting on your ass and playing a stupid computer game with scripted boss fights. that's it. i encounter more and more people these days who want to sit on their ass all day, don't want to pull their own weight, expect to make top dollar, and then scream and cry when it's their ass on the chopping block. i have no problem letting go of unproductive sloths.
as for my name being posted on there, i don't really care because i haven't posted anything on their forums for over 2 years. what i was doing then and now are totally different.
I'm not claiming it is productive. But the fact is, it isn't anymore or less productive than reading fiction, or playing a sports, or building model airplanes. What someone likes to do in their free time is their buisness, and shouldn't effect their employment status as long as they don't allow this activity to effect their work ethic. Saddly though, this isn't true.
If you walk into an interview and the guy who is going to decide if you get the job or not has a giant poster on the wall that says, "I hate people who built model planes in their garage." And you happen to be someone who builds model planes in your garage, you never have to tell them that because he'll never know other wise. But if there was list on the internet of all the people in the world who build model planes guess what? You wouldn't be getting that job because of what you do in your free time.
Syncrosonix wrote...
i wouldn't mention that i like building model airplanes. i highly doubt some potential employer will go that far in searching somebody out. tell you what, google yourself and see what comes up. if nothing incriminating pops up, what is there to worry about? most of the people i know will only search on mypsace and facebook. if people are wise, they'll close off all their content to friends only, or make other things strictly private. i've done that to my facebook page, and i don't add anybody that i don't know and/or trust. i certainly don't post drunken pictures of myself. that's asking for trouble.
Modifié par Crippledcarny, 06 juillet 2010 - 09:35 .
Syncrosonix wrote...
i certainly don't post drunken pictures of myself. that's asking for trouble.
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