Let me say two things about where I work. First of all, our engineers are really busy, so getting extra engineering cycles is nigh impossible. Second of all, Rock Band is the official company obsession. We have an XBox 360 hooked up to a projector and sound system in our break room, and Rock Band is continually on. Coincidentally, it seems like it’s always the engineers who are playing it.

Anyway, today one of the engineers came into our office and offered to give us an extra day of his development time (with his boss’s encouragement) if someone in marketing could beat him at a Rock Band tug of war. We were obviously stoked at the possibility of getting some extra work done, so my fellow marketers and I headed for the break room to determine which of us would take the challenge. The problem (and the genius of the challenge) is that nobody in marketing plays guitar hero, probably because engineering has monopolized it. Anyway, after about a half hour of half-assed simulated guitar playing, it was determined that I sucked the least. So tomorrow I go head to head with a programmer to try to get us some engineering time. *sigh* The things I do to get my work done… I’ll let you know how it goes.

Update: Yeah, I totally got worked.

Tags: work, guitar hero, challenge, lazy