{"id":5777,"date":"2010-04-15T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"wow-player-claims-she-was-denied-job-for-playing-horde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5777-wow-player-claims-she-was-denied-job-for-playing-horde","title":{"rendered":"WoW player claims she was denied job for playing Horde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.worldofwarcraft.com\/thread.html?topicId=24261279830&amp;sid=1&amp;pageNo=1\" target=\"_blank\">official World of Warcraft forums<\/a> recounts a player&rsquo;s experience of not getting offered a job because she plays Horde in Blizzard&#8217;s popular MMO.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I just got back from a final job interview for a pretty important position at a local Chicago television station. During the interview the person rightly asked what I like to do in my spare time. I mentioned that I enjoy playing &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; and much to my surprise my interviewer lit up and said he played to. <\/p>\n<p>Well at this point I was thinking to myself &#8220;SCORE!&#8221; &#8220;I am in good with this guy and am sure to get the job.&#8221; He asked what race and class I play and I proudly said &#8220;Level 80 Blood Elf Priest.&#8221; He sat back in his chair and said, &#8220;Oh&#8230;I see. Well I play Alliance.&#8221; Almost immediately the interview was cut short and he thanked me for coming and then said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re what this station is looking for.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is a forum post, so it must be taken with a pinch of salt, but its pretty funny nonetheless. Would you tell a prospective employee at an interview that you play WoW?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employer WTB \u201cHORDE NEED NOT APPLY\u201d door sign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}