Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:46 am
Would it be OK if I let my imagination play? Just a little bit?
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I can’t help thinking about time-sheets. By means of time-sheets the Big Corporate Brother can — along with many things — watch his army of little brothers, evaluate their efficiency (= what are they getting their money for?) as well as his own monetary efficiency (= what is he paying for?) etc.
So the employer provides codes assigned to different types of activities to keep them little brothers busy.
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A few examples of activity codes:
Licensing Vehicles: XXXX
Designing a new Eldorado Megamall (where players can knock themselves out and buy a variety of items a racer could possibly desire): XXXY
Inventing Innovative Monetization Schemes: XXYY
PR activities: XYYY
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Wait, and where is the code for CM forum activities? Blimey, no such code.
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A code for fixing bugs?
Well, technically there might be a code for fixing bugs but those activities (=operating expenses to be allocated to purchasing Clorox disinfectant which per se is not designed to kill insects, including bugs, but it will kill them anyway) are kept on a close-to-zero level. Furthermore in order to use that code you have to get a special approval… let’s say from a Finance Guy. The Finance Guy has no slightest idea about job specifics of a programming engineer, and his rich vocabulary does not contain words like bugs and glitches. It contains terms like cash inflows and cash outflows, gains and losses, costs and benefits. So, any non-cash generating activity is for the Finance Guy some sort of infamita a mere thought of which can trigger uncontrolled panic attacks. And instead of approval the potential bug fixers will get a pep talk (Are you degenerates or what? Do we have to pay additional expenses incurred by your incompetence? Just do your bloody work properly and there will be no bugs.) I wonder if anyone would risk another approach to the Finance Guy with that bug nonsense request.
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So, it wouldn’t surprise me if a programmer — upon receiving a package of some evidence (e. g. control issues) — would sigh, send the package to the waste basket by clicking the delete-button, and get back to designing another in-game… currency.
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Disclaimer:
All characters appearing in this post are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or business entities, independent or taken over, is purely coincidental.Â
Von zwei Narren hält der größere den kleineren für den größeren.
Emil Gött