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Having to explain DND and Magic to a potential Employer.....
11 years ago
So I went to a job interview today to work at a morgue, had my suit dry cleaned, and showed up showered and presentable.
As the interview starts she asks me if I'm okay with not being paid for the first month, and only get hired on probation if I do get the position. I tell her this is fine with me, and the interview goes on and she begins looking at my resume.
So upon my Resume I have written "President of Secret Sword and Sorcery Society" and "Vice president of Gamer's Guild" and she proceeded to ask me what those things were and why they were relevant.
I told her Gamers Guild was a club founded on UCR's campus for tabletop games, but is mostly centered around Magic the Gathering. I explained that being a Vice president of the club meant I had to alloquot funds and help organize for our larger events. Each quarter UCR Gives both Gamer's Guild and SS&SS 400 dollars each for club based events. So more often then not when I help my housemate Clement run peasant tournaments, draft tournaments, FNM and the like, I request appropriated funds and organize these events at large, usually trying to accommodate 50+ people. Which isn't incredibly large but requires a level head.
Then told her SS&SS was founded by me because I noticed not many people were into Role playing games, and I wanted to accommodate those people. Again the whole using money and aloquoting funds became relevant because I have incredibly good organizational skills, when it comes to management of paperwork and such.
So here's the rub. She asked me "What's a role playing game" and I being flustered was kinda like "It's like...we make characters..but with rules, kinda like impromptu storytelling. Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons?"
"No"
"Oh....world of darkness? Shadowrun? GURPS?"
"No"
"Oh...well those are systems we use for roleplay...They dictate the parameters that make character creation possible"
"Oh...so what is 'Magic the Gathering?"
"It's a tabletop card game where you play the role of a wizard and the deck of cards represents your spell arsenal, and you have 20 life...the goal is to play against someone else who is playing with a deck of spells and reduce their life to zero."
I then saw her write down on her clipboard. "Likes to play pretend with rules, and is into witchcraft, potential hire"
....what? XD
As the interview starts she asks me if I'm okay with not being paid for the first month, and only get hired on probation if I do get the position. I tell her this is fine with me, and the interview goes on and she begins looking at my resume.
So upon my Resume I have written "President of Secret Sword and Sorcery Society" and "Vice president of Gamer's Guild" and she proceeded to ask me what those things were and why they were relevant.
I told her Gamers Guild was a club founded on UCR's campus for tabletop games, but is mostly centered around Magic the Gathering. I explained that being a Vice president of the club meant I had to alloquot funds and help organize for our larger events. Each quarter UCR Gives both Gamer's Guild and SS&SS 400 dollars each for club based events. So more often then not when I help my housemate Clement run peasant tournaments, draft tournaments, FNM and the like, I request appropriated funds and organize these events at large, usually trying to accommodate 50+ people. Which isn't incredibly large but requires a level head.
Then told her SS&SS was founded by me because I noticed not many people were into Role playing games, and I wanted to accommodate those people. Again the whole using money and aloquoting funds became relevant because I have incredibly good organizational skills, when it comes to management of paperwork and such.
So here's the rub. She asked me "What's a role playing game" and I being flustered was kinda like "It's like...we make characters..but with rules, kinda like impromptu storytelling. Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons?"
"No"
"Oh....world of darkness? Shadowrun? GURPS?"
"No"
"Oh...well those are systems we use for roleplay...They dictate the parameters that make character creation possible"
"Oh...so what is 'Magic the Gathering?"
"It's a tabletop card game where you play the role of a wizard and the deck of cards represents your spell arsenal, and you have 20 life...the goal is to play against someone else who is playing with a deck of spells and reduce their life to zero."
I then saw her write down on her clipboard. "Likes to play pretend with rules, and is into witchcraft, potential hire"
....what? XD
