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Mechanique Aleatoire
I recently decided to become even more annoying to my co-workers and start introducing monetary transactions into my dealings with them.
My first exercise was to sub-contract my workload at a generous hourly rate to our new graduate. The graduate already had her own 9 to 5 duties she was being paid for but I offered £13/hour for her to take some of my extra work off my plate and maybe I'd get to leave earlier. I was also still making a decent profit and if I could have convinced the graduate to take all of my work onboard I could have started a second job.
My boss frowned and vetoed this after about 30 minutes so I bought the graduate lunch. If only she'd kept the whole transaction silent and over Instant Messenger I could have gotten away from it. Pesky kid.
The next experiment was to start using the prisoner's dilemma in a practical application, betting all the money in my pockets against all the money in one of my co-worker's pockets on a random happenstance like whether a boy or a girl would walk into the office next. When it became apparent that I had no money in any of my pockets though people stopped risking their small change just for the chance to be right.
My next planned experiment will involve using a silver dollar with one face scarred to make all my decisions. I want to become known as The Coin Man...
Oct.29.2006