Hanging's too good for 'em
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17160118

which has introduced me to the word "gamification" which I initially took as meaning "making the business gammy" but it's even worse than that.

"Millennials are different from previous generations largely because of their exposure to video games. These have really changed their expectations of how work should be. They actually think work should be fun."

Oh.OK.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:58, 7 replies)

I don't have a problem with work being fun, or with fun in general
if it doesn't interfere with the running of the business. But it's pretty much impossible in practice.

These places that advertise jobs with a list of the funky shit they have in their offices shouldn't really be surprised when productivity is ruined by a bunch of drunken developers spending all day at the ping pong table.

I think the problem is they don't want to give up their college life. The fact college life is unproductive goes over their heads.

Example: www.dropbox.com/jobs
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:26, closed)

Agreed.
Who really thinks that work *should* be fun?
There are aspects of most jobs that are fun but a huge number of people just want to get in, get done, go home and enjoy the life their job pays for.
Unrealistic expectations of working life are only going to make the whole experience shittier for a lot of people.
It's like telling people "work in our coal mine, nobody ever got dirty working here, and it's not dark, dangerous or underground"

I saw a survey the other day, thousands of high school grad kids here in Canada expecting to earn 3 times the national average salary by the time they are 30 and own their homes at 40. I did a big LOL. Who the hell is telling them they can achieve this and how shattered are they going to be when they realise what's in store for them?
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 16:08, closed)

It is a given in every life,
before you are thrust out into the world you expect the world to accommodate you.
Soon enough you find it ain't so and you begin to see the wisdom in practicing what you see and doing unto others before they do unto you.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 2:29, closed)

On a related note
"Game" is not a verb, and anyone using it as a verb should, erm, not.
(ubergeekian, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:31, closed)

It is
if you're talking about gambling.
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:36, closed)

On an unrelated note
'Yerbo flipsock" is not an adverbjective, and anyone using it as such should, erm, shot.

As in, be.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 17:42, closed)

You'd think
that all the grinding kids do on World Of Warcraft would have taught them that not only is work not supposed be fun, fun isn't fun anymore, either.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 19:19, closed)