PacMan cost companies $120 Million is loss

Ranging God · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 10:20 am

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/ ... t-companies-million/

The free Pacman that Google has on their site cost companies 120 million dollars, in unproductive work.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 10:20 am

trekkie · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 11:18 am

i think that study is completely bull. what about people playing during their break? what about people maybe playing on their iphone while going to work or whatever.

i honestly want to know who were in their sample. and knowing fox news, i would be laughing if they just took a sample of 11,000 ten year olds

Ranging God · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 11:22 am

trekkie wrote:

i think that study is completely bull. what about people playing during their break? what about people maybe playing on their iphone while going to work or whatever.

i honestly want to know who were in their sample. and knowing fox news, i would be laughing if they just took a sample of 11,000 ten year olds

the rescue time blog, yea I know it is prolly not 100% true, still kind of funny though.

Evelyn · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 11:32 am

They would've lost 120m hours by Facebook instead.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 12:24 pm

I'm sure they lose a lot more daily from countless things.

Pennstate315 · Runite Member 5-25-10

I believe it I played that all day in class

Adbot · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 1:00 pm

Directxfire · Retired Informer Writer - 9/29/10

It's a conspiracy! Fox must be in league with Bing! 8-[

Sev · **Posted:** May 26th, 2010, 8:54 pm

And Google is a multi billion dollar company. All in all, they could probably make the money back in a week.

Hairy Munky · **Posted:** May 27th, 2010, 5:06 am

Google didn't lose $120M. The flash game on Google cost OTHER companies $120M because their employees spent extra time on Google playing Pac-Man rather than doing their job.

trekkie · **Posted:** May 27th, 2010, 8:34 am

Hairy Munky wrote:

Google didn't lose $120M. The flash game on Google cost OTHER companies $120M because their employees spent extra time on Google playing Pac-Man rather than doing their job.

i realized that but i want to know WHO the people were. for all we know the sample were just teenagers who were playing while there was no customer at the mall

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** May 27th, 2010, 9:36 am

trekkie wrote:

Hairy Munky wrote:

Google didn't lose $120M. The flash game on Google cost OTHER companies $120M because their employees spent extra time on Google playing Pac-Man rather than doing their job.

i realized that but i want to know WHO the people were. for all we know the sample were just teenagers who were playing while there was no customer at the mall

Probably doesn't mean there boss wants them playing games tho.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Eh. Who gives a hoot. If we are going to make this much fuss, we might as well switch to communism or socialism or slavery. We need to get the most out of our workers and not let them spend 36 seconds looking at an internet site. Pshhh! Like some other people said already, workers already spend their time playing around with their iPhones and watching Youtube videos. I don't think a temporary interactive Google Logo is our greatest concern when it comes to work productivity.

trekkie · **Posted:** May 27th, 2010, 3:30 pm

CreepyPirate wrote:

trekkie wrote:

Hairy Munky wrote:

Google didn't lose $120M. The flash game on Google cost OTHER companies $120M because their employees spent extra time on Google playing Pac-Man rather than doing their job.

i realized that but i want to know WHO the people were. for all we know the sample were just teenagers who were playing while there was no customer at the mall

Probably doesn't mean there boss wants them playing games tho.

what if the boss is playing too ?

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** June 10th, 2010, 4:45 am

http://kotaku.com/5559827/old-lady-comp ... google-about-pac+man

**** hell...i do not get how people do that job. I would of been screaming at that woman.

Directxfire · Retired Informer Writer - 9/29/10

CreepyPirate wrote:

http://kotaku.com/5559827/old-lady-complains-to-google-about-pac+man

**** hell...i do not get how people do that job. I would of been screaming at that woman.

You'd just have to see the funny side. I mean, I'd actually much rather take that job if all my calls were like that, as opposed to difficult tech support queries :lol: