GARGANTUA
SYSTEMS
SERVICESOUR PEOPLECLIENTSCAREERSFLOOR 5
MANAGED IT SERVICES · TEMPE, ARIZONA · EST. BEFORE RECORDS

DEPENDABLE INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT FOR THE SOUTHWEST BUSINESS COMMUNITY.

Five floors of dedicated technical staff. Same-day ticket response. Twenty-four hour monitoring. Our founder has been with the company since its inception and remains closely involved in day-to-day operations.

UPTIME 99.4%TICKETS CLOSED 41,802HEADCOUNT 12FLOORS 5
OUR SERVICES
TIER 1 · HELPDESK

Password resets, printer faults, and the thing where the screen goes sideways. Handled by whoever takes the ticket.

TIER 2 · NETWORKS

Switches, cabling, the server room in July. Requires someone willing to go into the server room in July.

TIER 3 · ESCALATION

Reserved for matters requiring the founder's direct attention. Availability varies. Please allow four thousand years.

CURRENT WORKLOAD · FLOOR 1

FOUR HOURS OLD. NOBODY HAS TAKEN IT.

TICKET #4417PRIORITY · DIVINE
SUBJECT
The thing on five is getting colder and nobody wants to go up there.
OFFERED
Leave at four on Friday
DECLINED BY
Brenda · Keith · Deborah
OPEN FOR
4h 12m
YOU ASKED HER WHY
"I did the server room in July. I'm not doing the stairs as well."
AVERSION · STAIRS · TRUE. SHE IS NOT LYING TO YOU. ASKING COST YOU ELEVEN MINUTES.
HOW WORK IS ALLOCATED AT THIS COMPANY
YOU CANNOT GIVE AN ORDER.
YOU CAN ONLY MAKE AN OFFER.

An offer can be declined.

01
Work arrives. You don't assign it — you put an offer on the board.
02
Somebody takes it. Or reads it, thinks about it, and doesn't.
03
You raise it. You appeal to what they actually want. You buy pizza.
04
Or you do it yourself. That's middle management.
AN OFFER MAY BE RAISED AT ANY TIME. AN OFFER MAY NOT BE WITHDRAWN.
OUR PEOPLE · HEADCOUNT 12

NOBODY HERE IS A WORKER UNIT.

Three competing pulls each, underneath. You never see the numbers. You learn them the way you learn colleagues: by being refused, repeatedly, until it starts making sense.

GARGANTUA SYSTEMS
PHOTO
PENDING
Brenda
TIER 2 SUPPORT
NO. 000000114
LEAVES AT FIVE.
GARGANTUA SYSTEMS
PHOTO
PENDING
Keith
NETWORKS
NO. 000000087
WILL DO ANYTHING FOR PIZZA.
GARGANTUA SYSTEMS
PHOTO
PENDING
Deborah
ACCOUNTS · FLOOR 4
NO. 000000009
HAS MET HIM. WON'T DISCUSS IT.
+ NINE MORE · BADGES PENDING
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT WORKING WITH US
"Fucking Brenda. I KNEW she was going to make Martin do it."
— PLAYTESTER, WEEK 3
THE WORKING WEEK · THIRTY MINUTES
MON
Twelve strangers. One of them already dislikes you.
TUE
The AC fails. It is July.
WED
He asks for something. You bury it.
THU
He finds out.
FRI
Head office sends a memo. It goes on the wall.
FLOOR 5 · ESCALATION

YOU CAN GO AND SIT WITH HIM.

It always helps a little. It costs you the afternoon, and while you are up there nobody downstairs is posting anything, and nobody is keeping the bad news away from him.

He does not know what he used to be. He knows that somebody came upstairs.

G. GARGANTUA · FOUNDER
CAREERS

WE ARE ALWAYS INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM MOTIVATED CANDIDATES.

Positions on floors 1 through 4 are filled on an ongoing basis. There are currently no vacancies on floor 5 and there have never been any.

DEADLINE
DUNGEON
A God Who Forgot
AN UNSTUCK GAME · #4
WORKING TITLE · VERY EARLY
MOOD 0 · CONTENT