Make work more fun

Last year was just awful, what with the GFC and GT5 put back till 3010. For me, games became a much more important escape from the harsh realities of life. This got me thinking, why should we only enjoy games at home when they could help make our lives more fun and productive at work?

How about the following suggestions:

Budget Fun!
Your budget will be presented in tabular form. It will suddenly start to move across your screen to the right, then drop down a line, and move across the screen to the left. As it drops down each line, it starts to move faster and all you’re allowed to use is the left/right arrow and a space bar for corrections. Each number you manage to shoot out from the descending hoard will reduce your budget. Your staff will rejoice at the decimated budget (except those that have to be let go because of the lack of money). You can deal with them with the following game…

HR Head Cutting!
Those you have to ‘let go’ are first put into the re-deployment bucket and given the chance to re-apply for their ‘new’ old jobs! Once you have a sufficient number in the bucket (let’s call it a lobby as it sounds nicer) we will then put them into teams which look remarkably like clans. Since we’ve done all the hard work, all you have to do now is let them loose in an online shooter like MAG. Teamwork, collaboration, communication will all be evaluated to see how it fits within the company’s mission, values and other crap, along with knifing and RPG skills (which tend to be in short supply within industry today). In the interests of diversity, Pac-Man will also be offered to any ye olde school gamerz where they wipe out their competing teammates by swallowing a small pill. This concept could even be extended to the job interview process and would streamline all that talking and testing. Those that survive better get down to work…

WoW!
Those that are left now have to prioritise enough work for 200 people to be done by 20 people in half the time. Easy, just jump on-line into your massively multiplayer online role playing game and get your dweeby friends to help out. Welcome to the “World of Workraft” where you need to save your credits for that pinstripe suit and there are so many cool ties to customise your avatar with. Slay expense claims with your Level 50 Biro, and use the Enchanted Mouse to work magic into your spreadsheets. You can even work collaboratively on a PowerPoint presentation with cool animations and slide transitions showing the work of spells and decapitations so no one really understands the content. Though by now you had better be ready for some frustration creeping into your group…

Conflict Resolution!
All this restructuring can cause bad vibes and will create tension in the office environment. Don’t worry about contact officers and conflict resolution processes, it’s Wii Boxing time. Wii Boxing can deal with tension between employees in a fun and expressive way. Just remember there will be one avatar on the system that is constantly getting their lights punched out as every office has a social moron with a wiring defect. No mediation, just get on the Wii and sort it out and the looser gets kitchen duty for a week. You may also wonder why the moron didn’t get the arse in the first round of cuts but that’s life, don’t think about it too hard…

Back to it!
Now you’ve settled into your new job role, you can fire up the new version of Heavy Rain where you get to sit at a desk for eight hours a day and update Excel spreadsheets while you search for the one that is stealing your coffee bags. The dreaded origami coffee killer has remained and just leaves half-used coffee bags laying there in the sink bleeding their caffeine goodness down the drain. NNNNNOOOOO! Once found, and since stealing is a dismissible offense, it’s off to the HR FPS. You have also heard rumours that this version, ‘Heavy Petting Rain’, has an easter egg related to some form of the hot beverage, which may involve a member of the opposite sex and a desk. Time to put in some overtime.

Feel free to use these ideas to survive the next GFC! (Gamers Forgo Caffeine) or just get through work today. Combine them with these other helpful money-saving tips to impress your boss:

- Use Xbox 360s during winter to save on office heating bills.

- Avoid the use of PS3 as the date/time bug will force you to deal with the Y2K bug again, and again.

- Be careful when talking about the Wii as some militant feminist will take exception to it and sue your company for sexual harassment

What part of your working life could be better realised in game form?

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