Union-leaning Twitter account Daily Union Elections asked the world in a recent tweet“Trade unionists, what is the best complaint/[Unfair Labor Practice] that you ever won?” And the world responded in kind. As proud union girl herselfI thought a couple stories was standing the endbut one outperformed the others – a worker accused of gaming at work rescued because his work computer’s graphics card was underperforming.
“A member was accused of playing video games on his work computer,” the union organizing director said Erik Strobl said. “I acquitted him by proving conclusively that the graphics card provided by the employer could not handle the resource-hungry game that his manager allegedly saw.”
“If you’re accused of being a gambler, solve the problem like a gambler.” said one commenter. Other people tried to guess the game.
“dwarven fortress??? said an answer. “It was The Sims” said another“no computers are built for this game.”
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“‘He replayed that call of Duty Fuck!'” introduced one commentator. “‘Gerald the new guy call of Duty requires at least a GTX 960. This government PC has the performance of an overhauled artist over his seventh cup of coffee.”
But no, the imaginary Gerald was even more off than you could have imagined. The worker didn’t even play a game, instead “watching a game report on his break (which is fine),” Strobl said cleared, “but he was accused of installing unauthorized third-party software on a government computer (which he 100% didn’t do and, as I’ve shown, couldn’t have done). No abuse of time or government property.”
Apparently, this wasn’t the only time someone’s boss wasn’t sure what exactly a video game was — “I once had a boss call me about a game.” said another Twitter user. “It was a YouTube video playing while data crunched on the other screen.”
Yes, this is my favorite game. youtube.
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