We’ve all experienced the joys of sexual and racial discrimination, but now we have a new prejudice just in time for Christmas — MMO discrimination! Yes, according to one report, an un-named company has been hiring people based upon whether or not they are MMO players. That’s brilliant, in a somewhat twisted way.
A former MMO-nut met a recruiter working within the online media industry when he happened to mention that he once had something of an MMO obsession, being a big fan of the genre in the early 2000s.
“He replied that employers specifically instruct him not to send them World of Warcraft players,” the witness explains. “He said there is a belief that WoW players cannot give 100% because their focus is elsewhere, their sleeping patterns are often not great, etc. I mentioned that some people have written about MMOG leadership experience as a career positive or a way to learn project management skills, and he shook his head. He has been specifically asked to avoid WoW players.”
I may poke fun at WoW obsessives, but to outright refuse anybody who plays the game strikes me as pretty ridiculous. That said, the entire process of recruitment these days is so thoroughly twisted that it hardly surprises me. Anybody currently looking for a job be warned that you should probably scratch WoW as a hobby on your resume.
