u/ChetSt

My local gaming group recently put together a fun little skirmish game with a full rulebook - with an urban modern setting, and a dice pool skill check system (who doesn't love rolling a handful of d6s?)

https://ghostcitygames.itch.io/defrost

I posted this on r/wargaming and it didn't get a huge response, but maybe it fits this sub a bit better.

A Sneak sprints toward the alleyway

Profits from sales of the game are donated to charity, and it's PWYW. It's still a work in progress but the book is fully written and playable.

So I'm running a smaller department within a larger firm (still not huge - under 30 total attorneys) and I've been trying to hire a couple associates. The type of law we do is not super common in the market where I'm looking, so I've been trying to hire attorneys who seem interested in learning and/or have some civil litigation background, even if it's not directly in the area that we do. The job is remote.

I have now hired three separate associates who assured me they were interested, agreed to the salary (it's plaintiff side with a lower base salary but a good commission structure), and gave no indication that they didn't actually want to the job. And yet, three times in a row now, they have all stayed for a week and then quit with no notice.

I am already anticipating the responses saying that the problem must be me/the position, but I have tried to make the first week relatively easy, send a few basic assignments and send some information about how we operate without overloading them.

The most recent associate was scheduled to start this past Monday. It's remote, so obviously it's different from the person just walking into the office on day 1. I sent a welcome email at the start of the day - no response - sent a text at 10 am and got a response that their wifi was out. They proceeded to not work at all on the first day, claiming that the wifi was out all day. They responded maybe 6 total times to emails across Tuesday and Wednesday, and by Thursday I reached out to see if they were actually interested in having the job, at which point they resigned.

In each case, I have asked the person to give me some idea why they were quitting - each time, no answer/left on read.

Is this a common thing? Are people taking remote jobs and quitting after a week? Is this just a me problem?

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Some people from my local gaming group have developed a skirmish ruleset that plays pretty well, with a dice pool system for resolving combat and skill checks that is particularly interesting.

https://ghostcitygames.itch.io/defrost

It's miniature agnostic, although the selection of available miniatures for modern settings like this is quite a bit more limited than, say, fantasy or sci-fi, but Wargames Atlantic has a bunch of cool plastic modern minis (called Pulp Adventure) and some sculptors like SkullForge Studios do a bunch of modern stuff as well.

It's already available for download, although it's still a work in progress - lots of placeholders for potential future art in the book. It's PWYW, and they're donating the profits to charity.