• HellAwaits@lemmy.world
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    I’ve seen companies install an whole-ass arcade room with skee ball machines and tout them like crazy. I was too naive at the time to think they were just masking a HORRIBLE company culture that makes people feel like absolute garbage.

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        “Mark, were you playing time crisis 3 in the arcade room again?”

        “Ski safari, actually”

        “You know that the big presentation is tomorrow right?”

        “FUCK OFF DEBRA THIS IS MY PROCESS”

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          Only time these make sense is in sitcoms, and solely to show the workers interacting without doing something as boring as work. Better chances for cammradire if they’re playing Brand Friendly Product Placement or Generic CGi Generated video game on the break room Xbox being played with PS2 controllers than if they’re quietly dragging and dropping files until the new networking software recognizes the drive its in and starts

          In real life, if you’re playing Ping Pong on Company Time your ass is fired.

          Gotta be sneaky about it, pretend your wireless earbuds are hearing aids and just pretend to mop the floor while you’re playing Pokemon Go

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            I think it depends on the company, I work at a software company and you’ll regularly see the big boss playing pool with staff at random times of the day. A bit of non work time during the work day can help the brain come up with solutions to problems.

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      Notice how they’re always empty when they show them to you?

      They don’t even give employees time to play them…