Money? I’ve Heard Of That. Is It In Algeria?

There may be a job in the offing, and happily, it may not be with Nadya!

After not hearing from Playworks for a few days after writing them, I assumed that they weren’t interested and wrote them an e-mail that said “Since you didn’t write back, I’m assuming you’re not interested. Oh well…”

They wrote back.

I have an interview on Tuesday. I already warned them that there will be no suit, tie or shoes involved, since these are all primary ingredients which, when combined with me, act as a catalyst for spontaneous combustion. But then, they’re gamers, so I didn’t think the suit thing would be part of the culture. Still, if it works out, it’d be a paying gig. They’ve warned me however that the hours are insane. They work 18 hour days 5 days outta’ the week. Sometimes they don’t even go home during that period, so it’s pretty hard core over there… My guess is they’re probably gearing up to see if they can send some lucky bastard to the E3 and play games until they achieve cerebral hemorrahge, but that’s the price you pay for being a geek.

RCB Stands For Retarded Cheatin’ Bastards

Or, if you follow conventional wisdom, Registry of Companies & Business.

This is the next critical step. Now that MOM has said it’s okay for me to get a job, I have to go to the Retards and it seems in order to make themselves more efficient, user friendly and convenient, they are slowly making the transition towards the process being done entirely online.

This, of course, has made the whole process more tedious, less efficient, needlessly complicated, and unbelievably inconvenient, if not impossible.

The girlfriend was so frustrated by the whole affair she ended up slugging back three drinks in the aftermath of the not successful attempt. Things like instructions to click on hyperlinks were there was none, asking ME to log onto the site to confirm the registration and then finding only locals with a NRIC (National Registered Identity Card) make it impossible for me to do this, and so, we are faced with the prospect of making another trip in broad daylight in order to accomplish this.

I am beginning to see the appeal of Marxist teachings after viewing all the hoops involved in the so called “Easy start up process” to running a business here. If there is one thing that the Uber-Capitalism of Singapore has been teaching me of late, it’s that Lenin had a point.

Oh well, at least there’s the possible game writing job to look forward to. That’ll be fun for a while until I realize I’m spending more time writing than playing, at which point cynicism kicks in and I start yearning for those blissful days of unemployment…