Diaries of a Newcomer - Final Battles
Дата: 13.04.2011 20:32:41
admin: This is the last edition of the Diaries. So, I decided to make it
interesting for everyone. All the users who enjoy reading stuff
about our corporate leisure pastime, those of you who might ask a
reasonable question: “Do they work at all???” will find something
interesting here by no means!
Day 9:
Tonight we are going to ice-skate. However… I’ve got a lot to do. The first task I’m planning to solve is to reply to a huge number of e-mails that I received from the players following the appearance of my Diaries. They just loaded me with congrats, wishes, comments and there were even some offers to help! I can’t but thank everyone for your attention and support! It’s been such a pleasure to read your messages and reply to them.
Another thing I’ve got to do is to participate in an interview held by a newspaper called “World of Tanks News”. Besides, today I got one more task – I should compile some regulations (this project is kept secret, but soon you will learn a lot about it, and I’m sure, you will love it). That’s not an easy task, so I had to spend quite a number of hours in Google, and then contacted some people.
At 20:00 everybody started rushing there and forth, trying to finish all tasks in hand and to switch off computers, and the Big Boss gives instructions to those who stay late. It’s already 20:15, when we leave the office. Ahead! To greatest deals!
Surely, all company’s workers are invited to ice-skating, but due to extra stirring life not everyone could come, even despite the fact that the ice rink was booked for evening. Two hours of “Battle on the Ice” slipped in a crack, because such a rest is almost the only way to escape everyday routine.
Despite the fact that our leisure ended late in the evening, many people went back to the office after ice-skating. I’m not yet that much fanatic, so I went home. But even at home I failed to have a rest, have a nap, or read a book – I got some work in “23+” mode. I started to work over one more project when it’s nearly dark, and that required my long-term presence in Skype. Unfortunately, I cannot boast extra stamina or working ability after the midnight. And as a result, at half past one AM I went in the arms of Morpheus. I hope my readers will forgive me for this weakness.
Day 10:
I’m not going to cheat or say that my colleagues come to work at the crack of dawn. We love sleeping, too, so colleagues from my department bands together at about 9-10 am. And that is no exception.
I confess, today I came late (after 10:00), and it turned out that the community-devs were fussing about a new task, set by server admins – maintenance works on server. And forum caught those “maintenance works” too. Programmers and system administrators performed mystic procedures to bring the server back to life. And surely they did it successfully.
This technical issue set the tone for the whole day. I have some texts for translation to be placed on the website, I still do my work over regulations, and at 18:00 I am to take part in the radio program Direct Fire along with my colleague Veronika (Content-Manager on the North American server).
We got prepared for the program and joined the anchors. So I’m on air. I will not retell the whole discussion, but I must honor the anchors. They are true professionals! I could not believe that they are just amateurs. My colleagues listened to the program, and when we being newcomers said something merry or funny (Veronika joined the Community just a couple of weeks ago), they burst out into laughter. To cut it short, we are the tops!
The radio program is over, the end of the day (19:00-20:00) is still far away, and I continue my work.
Attention! We're on air! Please do not slap the door (close it on leave) and speak low.
You cannot imagine what happened afterwards! My colleagues gathered a real full platoon, and they rushed to the enemy base on the second floor looking for some cookies (we’ve run out of them on our floor). They came back carrying a huge plate of trophies, and I’ve never seen them happier before. Here they are, the small joys of the day.
Day 11:
This is my last day in this office, and today I have to finish all my work. Beside the project I already have (the regulations that I’ve been doing for the last several days), I got loads of text for translating. I had to translate some documents for content-managers, related to their work. I was disappointed because I had no time for playing World of Tanks and had to reject all invitations in the game.
Just now I received a corporate e-mail, named “Cakes on 9th” (I reckon, I never told you about the nuts of our corporate e-mails). That meant that someone is celebrating his/her birthday today, and if you are fast enough you will get a bite of happy-pie.
43. The cakes are on 9th. You snooze, you lose.
Before I leave this place I want to brighten you up and give away some secrets got from devs. Most important of them I placed in the article devoted to Ural Steel HQ news, so now those guys put on blank faces.
HQ
In addition to those pieces of news I want to tell some more stuff: 0.6.4 patch will be released soon, and afterwards players will see the updated American Tank Tree, which will include new AT-SPGs. I not sure, whether I get a pat on the back after posting these secrets in my Diary, but I feel rejoiced too, because I am WoT-addicted as well and am waiting for these patches.
***
Well, I have to go home now. My practice is over. I feel sorrow that I had to leave Wargaming.net company. Although I had no rest during practice, as most of my course-mates, I got priceless experience of work in community and learned a lot of things. I don’t know if I can stay in the company, but I know one thing for sure – I WILL NOT STOP PLAYING WORLD OF TANKS. And I will miss all these guys for sure.
P.S.
Through my Diaries I wanted to let you feel the real ambience of Wargaming.net. There are always loads of problems and tasks, but along with it there are always ways of joy, which make each day a special one, and help to overcome the difficulties. The Supervisors of the company do their best to brighten the routine. To make a game is art. And it’s better to create when one is live.
Day 9:
Tonight we are going to ice-skate. However… I’ve got a lot to do. The first task I’m planning to solve is to reply to a huge number of e-mails that I received from the players following the appearance of my Diaries. They just loaded me with congrats, wishes, comments and there were even some offers to help! I can’t but thank everyone for your attention and support! It’s been such a pleasure to read your messages and reply to them.
Another thing I’ve got to do is to participate in an interview held by a newspaper called “World of Tanks News”. Besides, today I got one more task – I should compile some regulations (this project is kept secret, but soon you will learn a lot about it, and I’m sure, you will love it). That’s not an easy task, so I had to spend quite a number of hours in Google, and then contacted some people.
At 20:00 everybody started rushing there and forth, trying to finish all tasks in hand and to switch off computers, and the Big Boss gives instructions to those who stay late. It’s already 20:15, when we leave the office. Ahead! To greatest deals!
Surely, all company’s workers are invited to ice-skating, but due to extra stirring life not everyone could come, even despite the fact that the ice rink was booked for evening. Two hours of “Battle on the Ice” slipped in a crack, because such a rest is almost the only way to escape everyday routine.
Despite the fact that our leisure ended late in the evening, many people went back to the office after ice-skating. I’m not yet that much fanatic, so I went home. But even at home I failed to have a rest, have a nap, or read a book – I got some work in “23+” mode. I started to work over one more project when it’s nearly dark, and that required my long-term presence in Skype. Unfortunately, I cannot boast extra stamina or working ability after the midnight. And as a result, at half past one AM I went in the arms of Morpheus. I hope my readers will forgive me for this weakness.
Day 10:
I’m not going to cheat or say that my colleagues come to work at the crack of dawn. We love sleeping, too, so colleagues from my department bands together at about 9-10 am. And that is no exception.
I confess, today I came late (after 10:00), and it turned out that the community-devs were fussing about a new task, set by server admins – maintenance works on server. And forum caught those “maintenance works” too. Programmers and system administrators performed mystic procedures to bring the server back to life. And surely they did it successfully.
This technical issue set the tone for the whole day. I have some texts for translation to be placed on the website, I still do my work over regulations, and at 18:00 I am to take part in the radio program Direct Fire along with my colleague Veronika (Content-Manager on the North American server).
We got prepared for the program and joined the anchors. So I’m on air. I will not retell the whole discussion, but I must honor the anchors. They are true professionals! I could not believe that they are just amateurs. My colleagues listened to the program, and when we being newcomers said something merry or funny (Veronika joined the Community just a couple of weeks ago), they burst out into laughter. To cut it short, we are the tops!
The radio program is over, the end of the day (19:00-20:00) is still far away, and I continue my work.
Attention! We're on air! Please do not slap the door (close it on leave) and speak low.
You cannot imagine what happened afterwards! My colleagues gathered a real full platoon, and they rushed to the enemy base on the second floor looking for some cookies (we’ve run out of them on our floor). They came back carrying a huge plate of trophies, and I’ve never seen them happier before. Here they are, the small joys of the day.
Day 11:
This is my last day in this office, and today I have to finish all my work. Beside the project I already have (the regulations that I’ve been doing for the last several days), I got loads of text for translating. I had to translate some documents for content-managers, related to their work. I was disappointed because I had no time for playing World of Tanks and had to reject all invitations in the game.
Just now I received a corporate e-mail, named “Cakes on 9th” (I reckon, I never told you about the nuts of our corporate e-mails). That meant that someone is celebrating his/her birthday today, and if you are fast enough you will get a bite of happy-pie.
43. The cakes are on 9th. You snooze, you lose.
Before I leave this place I want to brighten you up and give away some secrets got from devs. Most important of them I placed in the article devoted to Ural Steel HQ news, so now those guys put on blank faces.
HQ
In addition to those pieces of news I want to tell some more stuff: 0.6.4 patch will be released soon, and afterwards players will see the updated American Tank Tree, which will include new AT-SPGs. I not sure, whether I get a pat on the back after posting these secrets in my Diary, but I feel rejoiced too, because I am WoT-addicted as well and am waiting for these patches.
***
Well, I have to go home now. My practice is over. I feel sorrow that I had to leave Wargaming.net company. Although I had no rest during practice, as most of my course-mates, I got priceless experience of work in community and learned a lot of things. I don’t know if I can stay in the company, but I know one thing for sure – I WILL NOT STOP PLAYING WORLD OF TANKS. And I will miss all these guys for sure.
P.S.
Through my Diaries I wanted to let you feel the real ambience of Wargaming.net. There are always loads of problems and tasks, but along with it there are always ways of joy, which make each day a special one, and help to overcome the difficulties. The Supervisors of the company do their best to brighten the routine. To make a game is art. And it’s better to create when one is live.
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