Nerdzilla: The Manager
Well its Tuesday so I did what any good manager would do and rocked up to work at lunch only to take an employee to $4 pizza’s and black Russians at The Lucky Coq (Formerly The Duke of Winsor) on
Chapel Street where we were engaged in stimulating business conversation.
Black Russian #1
Employee: So there’s this girl I’m taking out Friday night
Nick: Yeah?
Employee: Yeah, I’m way into her and have to seel the deal on Friday
Nick: Where are you going?
Employee: The Cherry in Fitzroy, you should stop by
Nick: I’m doing a pub crawl with my nemesis that night, I’ll show up and totally ruin it for you.
Employee: Cool
Nick: Yup, if you let this go another week you’ll all of a sudden become her friend
Employee: Well, I don’t want that. She’s so awesome. She knows HTML.
Nick: That’s hot
Employee: I know right!?!
Nick: Is she a gamer?
Employee: She likes Atari 2600 games!
Nick: NO WAY!
Employee: I KNOW!
Black Russian #2
Nick: You know, man can build a bridge or a skyscraper…can build a space shuttle that takes a man to the moon….but can’t build a stupid table that doesn’t wobble!
Employee: I know right? I want to roll up this gross cold pizza and shove it under the leg!
Nick: This place sucks!
Employee: Another Russian?
Nick: Yup
Black Russian #3
Employee: So I’ve been thinking a lot about my work situation
Nick: Yeah?
Employee: Yeah, I try too hard
Nick: Yeah, you can be a bit over zealous
Employee: I know right?
Nick: Look, I have certain expectations of my employees
Employee: (Looks down and nods head)
Nick: You need to take your job a little less seriously, start taking 2 hour lunches at a pub, and if you are going to be late in the morning, please make sure it’s due to a hang over and not over some silly personal reason.
Employee: Yeah, alright. Thanks Nick, I won’t let you down.
We then walked back to work and discussed The Pac-Man Dossier that was posted on Gamasutra today and that is the end of my nerd rant.
