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Mandatory Overtime? Pokémon and Zelda it is!

Story from about 10 years ago. I remember I was working at a contract manufacturing firm and I was in charge of releasing products for the line. Unfortunately, the people who picked the products from inventory left at 2 because they started at 5, but everybody in my department was expected to stay until 7. So essentially, from 3 o’clock on I had absolutely nothing to do, so I should’ve left at 5 o’clock with the other wage slaves or even earlier. But we all had to stay until 7 o’clock. Fine with me, I have no problem getting paid time and a half to install a GameBoy advance emulator on my computer and download all of the great hits from the Gameboy, Gameboy color, and GameBoy advance era. $39 an hour to play Pokémon Yellow and Links awakening for 20 hours this week? Fuck my supervisor and Ganon.


Story from about 10 years ago. I remember I was working at a contract manufacturing firm and I was in charge of releasing products for the line. Unfortunately, the people who picked the products from inventory left at 2 because they started at 5, but everybody in my department was expected to stay until 7.

So essentially, from 3 o’clock on I had absolutely nothing to do, so I should’ve left at 5 o’clock with the other wage slaves or even earlier. But we all had to stay until 7 o’clock.

Fine with me, I have no problem getting paid time and a half to install a GameBoy advance emulator on my computer and download all of the great hits from the Gameboy, Gameboy color, and GameBoy advance era. $39 an hour to play Pokémon Yellow and Links awakening for 20 hours this week? Fuck my supervisor and Ganon.

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