Learn As You Go This Ain't

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Off to an orientation for New Job tomorrow.

As much as I like the idea of working at a museum, I am not looking forward to it. They can try all they want to make it dynamic and engaging, but I have yet to go to a general orientation that doesn't wind up feeling like you've just been introduced to a cool-sounding new board/card/sportsball/video game, but before you can dive in and start to figure it out some lawyer wannabe insists on reading ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS aloud, in slow motion.* And since your brain cannot conceptualize things that way, it means that you have to sit around shuffling cards or dice or something while a hopeless stream of gibberish is monotoned at you.

But hey, as long as it doesn't end with the guy in charge setting my drug test urine sample on the table in front of all the other new employees/interns and muttering darkly about PCP while making a note on his clipboard, it will not be the worst job orientation I have ever been at, so there's that!


*Speaking of lawyers, never play Scrabble with a for-real one. No matter what your attitude starting out, you will NOT wind up having a casual friendly fun time. You WILL, however, end up with an urge to murder everyone.

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

My approach to board games is unbelievably casual. Unless I am in an official tournament with a cash prize, I am more about the creativity and fun than the competition.

With Scrabble, it could also be that as a descriptive linguist I am easily convinced of the validity of a word. Do we all know what 'pwn' means? Then it counts, dangit!

[beccastareyes]

That is a compelling point; or at least a reason to agree on the rules before one plays.

[shadesofmauve]

Mom and I tend to play a free-for-all version of scrabble in which we happily use made-up words if they sound awesome and like they SHOULD mean what we say. Kind of Balderdash/Scrabble, I suppose. Obviously not very competitive.

We've also played with the goal of filling in as much blank space as possible (so things had to work all which way) and extending OFF the board over two feet of tabletop.