RedOctane is hiring!

Miss Toy · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: RedOctane is hiring!

RedOctane is looking for some female gamers to demo In the Groove at Best Buy stores in California.

Want more details? Keep on reading.

Miss Toy · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject:

Videogame Company seeking 2 female representatives/demonstrators

RedOctane, manufacturer of video game accessories and publisher of the game, In the Groove are seeking 2 females representatives/demonstrators, 18 and over residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, for a 1 month assignment. In the Groove is a high energy, interactive dance video game combining music video and dance pad controller. The representatives will give presentations and demonstrate In the Groove game in Best Buy retail stores. Training with the product will be provided in Mid May. Presentations will span 4 weekends in June (FRI-SUN) and will require approximately 5 hours per day. Some travel throughout California is required; however transportation and lodging will be arranged by RedOctane.

Qualifications:
Â· Familiarity with the Dance Dance Revolution game series is a plus. Training will be provided by RedOctane.
Â· Excellent oral communication skills
Â· Ability to speak to large crowds
Â· Personable and outgoing attitude
Â· Must be 18+
Â· Must live in the SF bay area due to training location

Duration: 1 month

Salary: $500.00 flat fee

You can view RedOctaneâs products at www.redoctane.com. If you are interested, please send email to kfernandez@redoctane.com.

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Dark Fish · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject:

does pretending to be a girl count?

AceJay · Trick Member Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Location: Princeton, NJ

O.O;

Damn, I wish I had:

Â· Excellent oral communication skills
Â· Ability to speak to large crowds
Â· Personable and outgoing attitude
Â· Is a girl

But transportation and lodging will be provided by RO? As in...

If I had the above, I could be flown out from Jersey?

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Who knows a reliable doctor that does sex changes?

... Is changing my sex going a little too far to play ITG for free?

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FOXX aka C-Unit · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:19 am Post subject:

I am all over this

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Steve the Mad G/F Stealer · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:32 am Post subject:

Now if I only I still worked at Best Buy and was a girl...
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IHYD.Blake · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

how bout a 13 year old boy instead? (thats me)

I might know someone who wants to do it... Ill ask
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Xopher · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Benton, AR

Red Octane is obviously not an equal opportunity employer.

This is so blatantly sexist.
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:44 am Post subject:

How's it sexist? -_- It puts males in power while at the expense of females? No, I'd say it's the opposite of sexism.

They're just looking for females, jeez. It's probably because there's so many GUY players.
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Hah! One time I tried asking Fry's on helping selling more DDR during Winter. They said yes but everything backfired. I got paid with free food and drinks and like about 5 dollars.

Well anyways wow I wanna do this! Still, I do not have any good speaking skills and also I was born with something down in the pants that would not make me qualified. Duuuuurhhh!
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peorth559 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005

*female* i could actually go out to cali for this if i didn't have a buncha family and personal stuff already planned =( if it were only a month later i'd be all over this

Xopher · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Benton, AR

Sexist in the fact that they're only hiring females.
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Tomo_kun · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Location: SE-WI.

They want some females to *LITTERALLY* whore out the game.

Why is this an issue?
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Light_373 · Trick Member Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Chicago

If this job were in Illinois, i know about 20 people who would kill for it. I wish good luck to the people itg will find for this job.

DJ C0m37 · Trick Member Joined: 09 Feb 2005

They probably already have 2 guys, and they can't find any girls. So shut up about it being sexist.

RomeoJoe86 · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject:

First of all, it's great that this hobby can help some people find cash. Also, it's great that Red Octane is taking the time to market the whole dance game concept.

All of that being said, $500 isn't that much money considering the work.

Let's do the math now.

4 weekends in June for 3 days each (Fri-Sun) at 5 hour shifts. That's 60 hours! How many people out there with jobs would be satisfied working 60 hours and only getting paid $500 for it?

So in other words, if you do the math straight up, it's $8.33/hour but then math isn't quite so straight up because there's this thing called overtime pay after 40 hours of work in which case the hourly salary would be time and a half (at least where I work) and so the more realistic hourly wage with this employer is a whopping $7.14/hour. Boo.

I know that this is over the course of an entire month as opposed to the weekly or biweekly pay periods most of us on an hourly wage are subject to and so that should be considered.

Yes, I know that travel and lodging will be provided and it will put your name on the map in the DDR world so that should also be considered, but man, $500 just ain't enough.

Consider that they're looking for the 2 best (and most attractive) female dance game players to be working the crowds to sell this product at the stores around California. Best ones out of all the hundreds of girls out there who are interested. The two of them will probably be reading this and thinking, "Is my month's work for this company and this game, considering the quality and caliber of my "presentation", worth only $500?"

Some will say yes and be picked and that's fine. Some will say no and that's fine also. Most will not get picked and that's also fine. All I'm saying is that these two special ladies should be getting paid much more than the breadcrumbs being thrown their way - not because I said they're worth more than that, but because they ARE worth more than that.

Please keep in mind the very first two sentences of this post, though.