When I first went through my interview with his only programmer at the time, the guy gave me a call soon afterward. Now apparently because my name happens to be difficult to pronounce and looks unusual, after the first few words were exchanged ("Am I speaking to so and so...?", etc., etc.)... the very first question he asked me was "Do you speak English?"... I was a bit puzzled, but answered in the affirmative. Now this wouldn't have been so bad if not for the *second* question he asked me, which was... "Are you sure?"Oh man, any more on the guy with the truly bizarre notions of the ultimate game?!?
ShootMyMonkey said:When I first went through my interview with his only programmer at the time, the guy gave me a call soon afterward. Now apparently because my name happens to be difficult to pronounce and looks unusual, after the first few words were exchanged ("Am I speaking to so and so...?", etc., etc.)... the very first question he asked me was "Do you speak English?"... I was a bit puzzled, but answered in the affirmative. Now this wouldn't have been so bad if not for the *second* question he asked me, which was... "Are you sure?"
There were other programmers interviewed, however, where he says more appalling things, including --
"Let me tell you something, I was already set to hire you from the start, you know... because you're black. And it's always such a good thing to see a black guy who's not selling drugs."
Trying to convince someone to take lower pay --
"I understand you have a family. I have one, too... Y know, on that subject, one of the things my wife and I did was to use one of those ovulation machines to determine when we do it. You should really try to do the same thing so you know when to avoid it."
Yes, he said "ovulation machine", and the rest of us were sitting with looks of shock on our faces thinking 'why on earth is he talking to this guy about his sex life!! This is a job interview!' BTW, the guy we interviewed then was someone I got to work with later, and he's moved around a bit since. Last I heard, he's now a team lead at LucasArts.
The following quotes are images he had of how the future will work --
"Why do we have buttons on the computers in there? It's set 100 years in the future! I'm pretty sure people will move past buttons!"
"It's 100 years in the future! I don't think we should be using bullets anymore. We should be firing energy! You know, like... did you see that one scene on the Borg ship?"
"Why are you modelling toilets? It's 100 years in the future! People won't be sh*tting turds anymore!"
Well that explains the everything, not only is such person working at LucasArts, he was probably hired by someone likeminded.ShootMyMonkey said:Last I heard, he's now a team lead at LucasArts.
ShootMyMonkey said:"Let me tell you something, I was already set to hire you from the start, you know... because you're black. And it's always such a good thing to see a black guy who's not selling drugs."
I think I may not have worded that right. It isn't the crazy moronic bastard creature who was running the shop who is now at LucasArts. The guy we were interviewing back then is now at LucasArts (the guy the creature was trying to convince not to have children so he could work for less money). That guy happens to be a perfectly normal, well-adjusted human being. The creature is something else entirely. Actually, last I cared to look up, the creature was being chased down by the district courts over the theft and illegal resale of fire hydrants.Well that explains the everything, not only is such person working at LucasArts, he was probably hired by someone likeminded.
ShootMyMonkey said:Actually, last I cared to look up, the creature was being chased down by the district courts over the theft and illegal resale of fire hydrants.
It wasn't really the creature personally doing it. Its other company happens to be a construction company and the creature was indicted with being in control of a "fire hydrant racket" which involved stealing the hydrants and reselling them back to the city under the guise of a new hydrant installation contract.But you've got to give the guy credit. I mean, have you ever tried to steal a fire hydrant? Not that easy!
Yeah, well, from what I understand, this is actually theft of installed ones. And then the company would sell contracts to replace all the stolen ones which they themselves actually stole -- and they of course get them because they can bid low since the hydrants were free for them.Stealing and reselling on job sites isn't as hard as doing it with old installed ones, I knew some guys in the electrical industry a few decades ago who did similar things.
Oh, please keep them coming! This is even better than tech support horror stories. (Which used to be my fave.)ShootMyMonkey said:If you want more stories, I've got a million of them, though.
ShootMyMonkey said:It : We really need to have these weapons firing from the same point.
Me : "From" the same point or "To" the same point?
It : No, no... from the same point.
Me : Wait a minute. I'm thinking that you're just complaining about the fact that the shots are currently going straight out from the facing of the guns rather than converging at the crosshairs, so you want the shots to lead out *to* the same point.
It : No, no, I mean there shouldn't have to be two streams.
Me : But there are two guns in two locations... You want there to just be one gun now?
It : That doesn't matter. You can have two of them. They should just shoot from the same spot.
Me : But they're not IN the same spot!!
It : I don't see what's so hard to understand about this. There should just be one stream of fire from one spot.
"Do you speak English?"... I was a bit puzzled, but answered in the affirmative. Now this wouldn't have been so bad if not for the *second* question he asked me, which was... "Are you sure?"
ShootMyMonkey said:The fact that that particular job actually had me serving the roles of coder, manager, IT, audio, effects, and musician means that there's a wealth of hell.