{"id":6997,"date":"2016-08-06T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterindia.com\/career-advice\/how-not-get-fired-while-playing-pokemon-go-6997\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:50:30","slug":"how-not-get-fired-while-playing-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/how-not-get-fired-while-playing-pokemon-go\/","title":{"rendered":"How not get fired while playing Pok\u00e9mon Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s official, #Pokecraze has hit Hong Kong. As of July 26th, Pok\u00e9mon fiends have been roaming all over the city trying to find and capture those cute Pikachu and hard-to-find Charizard.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, you\u2019ve probably been sucked into the Pok\u00e9mon Go world by now, trying to \u201ccatch \u2018em all\u201d. For those not in the know (oblivious employers, take note) Pok\u00e9mon Go is an app that allows players to find, catch and battle the creatures of the Pok\u00e9mon world. But beyond any regular gaming app, Pok\u00e9mon Go has these characters superimposed against your actual surroundings, allowing you to \u2018catch\u2019 them in the real world. Essentially, it has resulted in a lot of Hongkongers walking around with their noses glued to their phones.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the world, there have been reports of people injuring themselves while playing, joining \u2018Pokewalks\u2019 \u2013 arranged gatherings to help each other find and catch as many as possible \u2013 and even quitting their jobs or getting into trouble at work because they just Can\u2019t. Stop. Playing. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is some serious commitment. So how to ensure you capture all those pesky Ekans without losing your job or suffering at the hands of your boss?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t play during work hours<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


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This is a no-brainer, really, but we know how hard it is to ignore the game when a Clefable is right there, just down the road from work. When you\u2019re at work you are expected to \u2013 surprise, surprise \u2013 be working. So if your manager catches wind that you\u2019re ducking out the office every hour to play a game, they\u2019re not going to be best pleased.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have to play while at work, limit it to lunchtime.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, get a boss who forces you to play!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CEO of tech website The Next Web, Boris Veldhuijzen, sent out an internal memo recently urging his employees to play Pok\u00e9mon Go to help them get a bit more exercise. Yes, really!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Business Insider<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closer to home in Hong Kong, there has been at least one report of an employer giving staff half the day off to go play Pok\u00e9mon Go and get it out of their system:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: @Simonting on Twitter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t overuse company resources to find Pok\u00e9mon<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


<\/span><\/strong>Farfetch\u2019d might be an Asia-exclusive character on Pok\u00e9mon Go, but this doesn\u2019t mean you can use unlimited company time, email, Wifi or anything else to help you capture one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your employer\u2019s work resources are provided for work purposes only. While some companies might be relaxed about you emailing friends on your work email, you don\u2019t want to push this too much by constantly messaging friends to find out where Pok\u00e9mon are. The same goes for Whatsapp and Facebook and any other messaging app you\u2019re allowed to use at work \u2013 don\u2019t bite the hand that feeds you! Use all these platforms responsibly.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t use sick leave just so you can play\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


<\/span><\/strong>Reasons to take sick leave: You are actually sick; you need to visit a doctor; you physically can\u2019t get out of bed due to illness.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reasons not to take sick leave: Because you have to catch that Mew right now or it\u2019s going to drive you crazy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, if your boss finds out you have falsely called in sick, it could be grounds for termination.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t threaten to quit your job to play Pokemon full-time<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


<\/span><\/strong>Yep. New Zealander Tom Currie used to work as a barista, but decided to give it all up<\/a> to pursue his real dream \u2013 catching Pok\u00e9mon.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When I resigned, I didn’t tell my manager I was going out into the world to hunt Pokemon,” he told Newsbeat. “But after my story got picked up I gave him a courtesy call to update him just in case the media contacted him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this is an extreme case, we feel compelled to remind you that catching Pokemon is not a full-time job. Got it? Good.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Need a part-time job instead so you can catch \u2018em all? Search for part time jobs in Hong Kong <\/a>here. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s official, #Pokecraze has hit Hong Kong. As of July 26th, Pok\u00e9mon fiends have been roaming all over the city trying to find and capture those cute Pikachu and hard-to-find Charizard. Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, you\u2019ve probably been sucked into the Pok\u00e9mon Go world by now, trying to \u201ccatch \u2018em all\u201d. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-work-life-balance"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16320,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions\/16320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundit.sg\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}