Today's Game is Yesterday's Job
Today's Game is Yesterday's Job
yearn for service positions
Yes, but not in the way you think
“Fine then, let me just borrow your car”
“What for?”
“I want to rent a movie”
“you work…at a video store”
“I work at a shitty video store! I want to go to a good video store and get a good movie!”
So a gas station attendant simulator? Pick a pack of smokes off a wall of packs, restock beer in the cooler, empty trash bags near pumps, and occasionally do full service?
I wouldn’t want to relive that again. Chevron sucked as a job.
New sim idea:
Make comments online to meet the game goals but get blasted by other commenters for misspellings.
I already interact with the public enough, not to mention have read enough of the Acts of Gord, to never want to run such an operation in real life.
I’ll bet you punching highly deserving abusive customers square in the face doesn’t get you fired as much in VR as it does in reality.
I want to see your manager!
punches I am the manager~
I used to work at a Blockbuster, I’m not sure I’d want to relive those days.
My favorite was when customers would come in with the cards we mailed out letting them know they were in collections for a late return. something like $4.25 (yes we’d send people to collections for the cost of a rental) and they’d always have the same complaint “I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.
More like, “well for just $4.25, plus my convenience fee of $100, we can resolve this problem”
I love being assholes to assholes, so the chub is just a side benefit.
Yeah, but then you give them something to complain about afterwards. Pissing them off by being kind is sooooo much more rewarding. You haven’t experienced pettiness until you’ve gotten a customer to a boiling rage by being nothing but saccharine and professional to a pissed off customer looking for a fight.
I used to work retail cell phone sales for a now defunct reseller, and we’d frequently get people in who got pissed off when they found out we couldn’t do a lot of carrier functions, and boy was it fun winding people up by being kind, courteous and professional.
I wasn’t as bad as the South Park ISP dudes, but same vibe lol
For bitching about $4 that they should have paid weeks/months ago, bothering staff like like that is going to be an easy way out. Using a bullshit excuse for pity.
If you can’t afford $4, what house are you buying? Exactly. They just expect to be treated ‘different’, because ‘they’ are ‘better’.
“I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.
I’m sure they did nothing wrong with that house once they bought it…
*looks at housing market*
OP you should have doubled the fine

That’s why I hate video games - they appeal to the plebian fantasy.
/s