Random: Japanese Police Officer Gets Slapped Wrist For Playing Switch On Duty

Lol this was me being caught playing my GBA under the covers at night when I was a kid

When you are working, keep focus on your duty.

Heh, not my place to judge. Snuck around as a kid with this stuff and I've played on break a few times. When I was younger and not on break I used to sneak out to the dumpster area to play~

17h of playtime during work? Sounds like a normal week in home office

I bring my switch to work everyday, but I am never in mood to play. I have to be in my own environment to enjoy games. So even though I mostly play handheld, it doesnt really make sense since I always play it at home. I guess I am just weird..

Depends on the job and the person, I play a bit in the afternoon while running mac restores as you can only wait on the software to load

@Justaguest I feel that. When I'm at work even on break I still feel like I can't comfortably play games for some reason.

their is a difference between a regular 9-5 and a emergency worker he should have known better...

I know it was a shameless plugin for Princess Peach Showtime, but the incident accord months before the game was out, just to be clear. In addition, 17 hours is roughly triple the amount of hours the game can be beaten.

I need to know what game he was playing before I can make any judgement.

Huh, so this is the first article i open nintendo life too
Guess today gonna be hella weird

@Justaguest after I finish eating my lunch in my car I usually have 20 minutes to play but instead I almost always end up taking a nap 😅

I need to know what he was playing before I judge.

He doesn't sound like he's only playing during breaks.

The Switch has been a great device for someone with a long commute to and from work. It makes the time just fly by. Manage your time well and it fits in great even with a busy schedule.

bruh aint no way. lol

@Justaguest Right there with ya. If there's a MP game like Diablo and there area few others playing, it work for us to get together and play for 20min, then throw down some food. But, outside of that it's a mental struggle. Gaming should be relaxing and it's hard to hit the unwind mode of playing a game while at work. It's a little different if you remote, but if you have a steady stream of meetings/call/deliverables, even that can be a challenge.

It's great working a hotel front desk-I've blasted through 3 games on duty this month. As long as I'm answering that phone and not neglecting my duties, the rest is essentially downtime.

Sometimes I am expected to attend overly long and minimally productive virtual meetings. Is there anything wrong with cracking on with the daily Animal Crossing chores while attending those sorts of meetings?

To be fair, in the US this would be an immensely better use of their time than their current workload of harrassing poor people.

Crime is kinda low there anyway. Game on!

I would have liked to know what game(s) he was playing.^^

@Daggot I agree. Ive tried to play with others at work when nothings happening, but it just doesnt work for me. The only time I had fun was when we were playing Mario party, but thats because we looked like fools and made each other laugh and I was finally able to immerse myself in the game to forget I am at work.^^

Oh to have a job that doesn't require constant attention and human interaction

@mariomaster96

my record was 36h in one week and this isn't a joke - they liked to pay me for doing nothing, but I got bored after 2 months and switched companies

Anyone else baited to click by thinking we were getting Astral Chain news?

@calbeau Indeed, well said! So many people saying they don't have time to beat their games or do other things but a lot of it comes down to their time management. 168 hours in a week is an insane amount of time if used correctly, and that's even taking into account a full 40-hour week that isn't remote (not as common today), a longer than average commute of 10 hours a week (unrealistic), and a perfect sleep schedule of 8 hours a night (also unrealistic).

That leaves you with 62 hours of free time, and I can't recall a week where chores and errands took even half of that.

Why connect it to a tv?He was begging to be caught.Sometimes,when i played Switch on handeld mode outside the house,less informed people mistook it for a smartphone and asked me which brand it was.

I do remember playing Pokemon Go while at work when it was slow. Good times. But work comes first before play

Well it seems he was a repeat offender. 10 times?!? The worst part seems to be the lack of respect for his superiors telling him to stop.

At least he wasn’t sitting in his patrol car wasting tax dollars.

Honestly it doesn’t seem too bad if he was just answering phones and playing when it was quiet (a quick hit of the home button)

Amateur Caught Acting Badly tbh.

People here really saying they need to know what game their playing on the Switch to judge them? Does it really matter what he is playing?

@Overzeal Yeah, my mind just went straight to Astral Chain at first.

Officer took full responsibility with a sensible punishment in line with their derelif duties. Why can't more stories end like this?

I have to agree with the commenters who say it's tough to enjoy games on short breaks. I find some RPGs are the exception to this, sometimes- just grinded some Unicorn Overlord an hour ago during lunch, but otherwise I haven't really played a game on break in months.

Crime must be low for him to have that much time on his hands at work. Not quite the smooth sailing for city police in the US.

@Justaguest I do that too often. I'll never play at work but sometimes it's nice to go to the library or a park and play afterwards. It's also just a nice token to have on me especially if I have a crappy day at work.

"The prefectural police has since confirmed that the officer's pay will be deducted in line with the amount of time spent playing the Switch." This must be a joke, right? I mean they can't have a way of knowing how much of this play time was while at work duty. Also it's the first time I heard there's some wage deduction cause of gaming.

@SwitchVogel This guy had to hide his TV under the covers

He should get another slap in the wrist because he's playing call of duty, not unicorn overlord 😃

In my honest opinion, the officer should have been fired. He was on duty and probably on call, so he should have known better and it was not a one time incident even if this was his first time caught in the act.

@dimi They probably checked cameras to learn how long the console was hooked up. Also, they did get a confession from the officer. The salary deduction was probably a deal between the officer and his employer for him to keep his job. I assume his job was on the line.

You shouldn’t play games while on work and certainly not when you are a police offficer.

@HistoricKombat

As a European, I’m generally not so quick to want to see people fired as our friends overseas are. But willfully neglecting your duty in such an important job to play some game is a good argument for this fellow having to find something else to do.

And certainly much more of a fireable offense than someone making a stupid joke on social media in their free time.

@Farts_Ahoy „The worst part seems to be the lack of respect for his superiors telling him to stop.“
Nowhere in the article does it say anything like that.