This is the first time that playing the game of Scrabble is possible with the players spread all around the world. While one player is in America during daylight hours, his opponents in other parts of the globe play with him during what are supposed to be their sleeping time. Some are playing in the early evening hours in their place in another continent, while others do so in the dawn hours! Imagine one playing a supposedly fun game at 3 o’clock in the morning; Scrabble must be so much fun for somebody to get up from his bed, just to play this challenging word game! You know it is!
But this is what they call now as the virtual World, the World that never sleeps.
This new phenomenon started when the term “job outsourcing” first came into being not very long ago. Companies in America like department stores, wine stores, computer stores and so forth, outsource most of their office and customer servicing, meaning these jobs are now done by outsourcing agents seated before computers, physically located elsewhere, talking with phone callers.
The telephone caller could be a store customer in America who just bought a computer in the morning and needs to call up the store a little after his lunch hour for some queries he has to make regarding his new equipment. He is new in this use of the computer, so he needs some assistance on how to operate the machine.
It is not unusual that the techie answering him, guiding the caller through the steps to make his computer run, is chatting with him at 4 o’clock in the morning in his part of the world!
The same is true with many kinds of jobs being done by people now all over the World in different time zones, for business enterprises in America; maybe other stores in other countries are also beginning to have some of their jobs done elsewhere, away from their physical locations.
So, if work is now done virtually in a 24-hour cycle, people can also play round the clock. What’s the hassle, anyway somebody already up from his warm bed in the dawn hours, sitting before his computer, is as awake now as his Scrabble opponent who just arrived home from work, wanting to relax with a few rounds of Scrabble before his dinner. That is what happens in this web domain. Interested? Try out www.quizfanatics.com and find out what all the fuss is about. Join up!
