The backpack thing is legit. I got a Targus backpack my freshman year of college, and I still use it every day for work, 19 years later. It’s in great shape and you’d never know it was so old!

The backpack thing is legit. I got a Targus backpack my freshman year of college, and I still use it every day for…

Corp Office employees represent a very large portion of the wage costs of the company, and GameStop pays its corp folks pretty well (I used to be one of them). This cut gives them a lot of breathing room vs what they would have had to do in the field to achieve the same result. And they got rid of some very senior…

“it’s actually your job to make your boss’s life easier, not the other way around.”

Holy hell, this is wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong! This is a great approach to get the bare-minimum effort out of people and ensure they seek other jobs. This is a hallmark of every bad boss I’ve ever had. The whole “You’re here to serve…

Umm... Europe is still first world, and pretty much all of those countries have their own languages.

It’s all about how your boss perceives you, and often not at all about how you actually perform.

In 2004, I was just out of college, first full-time job (which I hated), living alone in a strange city far away from friends and family. WoW was more or less the only social thing I had. It was the game I played while I figured out how to be an independent adult. My guild was the group that helped me figure out a…

I’m a particular fan of the point about how game companies need more than just developers, designers and artists to run. I’ve been working in the industry for 10 years now, doing everything from technical writing to QA, installer packaging and operations management. If your goal is to be “in the industry” primarily,…

I travel US<->Europe pretty frequently these days and when I head to Europe, the first day is hell, the second is a bit of a slog but I’m fine from there. If I go to US West coast from EU, similar, only the first day is bad.

I used to do this all the time in academic writing assignments. I also wouldn’t go through the normal draft process (what I wrote the first time was almost always 95% the same as what I’d turn in... the few times I tried to proper multiple drafts, I got lower grades on the final paper). So when we had to turn in…