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Playing Games at Work
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Many people tend to decide to play games at their jobs, at least occasionally. For people who spend their workday at a computer, this can take the form of secretly (or not so secretly) playing a video game. The most common choice is Solitaire, which was commonly found bundled with older Microsoft Windows systems. This is not only an indication that the character bored out of their mind, but they don't even have the means or the energy to download or install something cooler, or their work computer does not allow foreign programs to be downloaded without administrator permission, which they most certainly cannot get. Later Windows machines require you to download games yourself, which might lead to something a bit more involved like Tetris or surreptitiously playing a phone game like Angry Birds. The person playing may be a Surveillance Station Slacker. Often doubles as a Funny Background Event. Compare Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. |
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In issue #227 of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), while The Team is infiltrating the Egg Base, they move into view of a security camera. Luckily, the Surveillance Station Slacker in charge of it is playing an (unidentified) game and thus doesn't notice. Later, when one of the two dual bosses of the base discovers this, she says that if he's going to slack off, he needs to at least beat her high score. | |
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In The Stanley Parable, on rare occasion you can stumble across some office worker's abandoned workstation whose monitor has a game of Solitaire still opened. | |
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In Invisible, Inc., the first heist has the team break into an executive's office and hack his workstation to get data needed to plan future heists. The game has several descriptions of the workstation that it rotates through, one of which notes that the executive is in the middle of a game of Solitaire. | |
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CSI: NY: In "Kill Screen," Mac overhears Adam and Danny speaking excitedly, goes to investigate, and finds them playing Gears of War 3. Adam explains that it's part of their case: the motive was someone hacking the game in a tournament to make the winner's hit box twice as big as it should've been, while simultaneously reducing the opponent's box to half its size. | |
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In the first episode of Psych, Gus is doing this when he's introduced. Shawn notices immediately due to his hands being on the keyboard in the proper position for playing a First-Person Shooter. | |
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In Paranoia, unactivated clones pass their time in a small, dark room playing games against each other before being called to duty. Unfortunately, they can guess what the others are thinking since they all share the same thoughts. | |
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One Doonesbury strip has Mike tour his software company, and happen upon one of Kim's hires playing solitaire. The testy fellow claims he's developing a new paradigm. | |
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In Office Space, lead character Peter Gibbons, having taken a more casual attitude towards his job following his hypnotherapy session, is at one point playing Tetris on his office desktop as his Pointy-Haired Boss Lumbergh comes in. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine introduces the mobile game and Candy Crush Expy Kwazy Cupcakes—spelled "Kwazy" with a K and, oddly enough, a backwards W. Gina quickly gets addicted to it, and when she introduces it to Capt. Holt, even he gets addicted to it—Foreshadowing of his characterisation in later seasons as a gambling addict. | |
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In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you can hear Bradford complain about someone doing this in the Situation Room: | |
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In the cinematic trailer for Overwatch, a guard at the museum can be seen playing Hearthstone on his tablet instead of monitoring the security cameras. Hearthstone can be found on various tablets and monitors throughout the maps, mostly at research stations and consoles where important work should be conducted. | |
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In Big Hero 6, when Hiro leaves a police office after unsuccessfully trying to convince a bored policeman about a supervillain being on the loose, a game of Solitaire can be noticed on the policeman's computer screen. | |
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Dante from Clerks closes his store early so he can host a hockey game on the roof. | |
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In The Office (US): Dunder Mifflin Scranton employees, particularly Creed, can be seen playing games like Solitaire and Hearts on their computers as a sign of their apathy towards their jobs. Stamford branch employees spend a lot of time playing Call of Duty on their work computers and take it very seriously. Jim's lack of skill at the game causes a lot of tension. Dwight, fighting a bout of depression, spent an episode playing Second Life at his desk. Also, when he created Mega Desk while Jim was away on paternity leave, he dedicated one section for gaming between sales calls. Stanley spends most of his days drinking coffee and solving crossword puzzles. |
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Dwight, fighting a bout of depression, spent an episode playing Second Life at his desk. Also, when he created Mega Desk while Jim was away on paternity leave, he dedicated one section for gaming between sales calls. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode riffing on the film The Undead, Mike mentions that before he was sent to the Satellite of Love, he had a really good temp job where he mostly ate bearclaws and played Doom. He has no idea why he got fired, though. | |
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In Bee Movie, the director of the Honex Industries can be seen playing a hexagon-shaped Solitaire at his computer during Barry's motivational speech at the end. Justified in that at the time, the honey production was shut off and the bees had nothing to do. | |
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Mordecai and Rigby from Regular Show tend to slack off on a very frequent basis, much to the endless frustration of their boss Benson. This ranges from playing video games to getting distracted with other activities when they're supposed to do their jobs. Their professional procrastination tends to cause about half the conflicts in the show, which often leads them to go on crazy misadventures trying to fix the resulting problems. | |
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In Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Benji is briefly seen playing Halo 5: Guardians at the CIA and flipping screens when anybody important comes where they could see. | |
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In the The Amazing World of Gumball episode, "The Signature", at the town hall where the Wattersons, Granny Jojo and Louie sort out their Relative Errors before Richard's dad Frankie would possess their house, they go through an long and tedious process of lampshadedly slow bureaucratic transactions. One transactions has them seeing an employee playing Solitaire and surfing through an expy of Facebook. | |
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Stamford branch employees spend a lot of time playing Call of Duty on their work computers and take it very seriously. Jim's lack of skill at the game causes a lot of tension. | |
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The Avengers (2012): After Tony Stark comes aboard the Helicarrier, he gleefully points out that one of the bridge deckhands is playing Galaga at their desk. Shortly after the scene ends and the heroes leave, the deckhand turns their screen back to Galaga again.note The line was an ad-lib by Robert Downey Jr., and later while editing, director Joss Whedon found a shot of a deckhand extra looking shifty, so he edited Galaga onto their screen. | |
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In the Sam & Max: Freelance Police series, the Shambling Corporate Presence plays "Mimesweeper" when accidentally sent to Santa's workshop, and again when he's sent to his proper office in Hell. | |
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In The Darkside Detective, examining Officer Murakami's workstation at the precinct house results in McQueen remarking that Murakami has achieved a new high score in "whatever he's playing" (and Dooley complaining that he's never going to catch up when McQueen keeps making him work during work hours). | |
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Non-adult example: In the Hey Arnold! episode, "Suspended", after Arnold and Harold get suspended from school, they go to the public library do some research on an appeal to the school's constitution. However, only Arnold does any actual research on his computer, as Harold is seen playing a Rampage-like game on his computer, until an unamused Arnold sees it and shuts the computer off. | |
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The 400 Blows: When Antoine is locked up at the police station for the night, the police officers on duty are seen playing a dice game. | |
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Night Court had an episode where the staff is filmed for a documentary crew. In the intro, Mac shows off his computer and says that he can easily bring up a file by pressing a button. He presses a button to demonstrate and brings up a game of Super Mario Bros. | |
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