Figments of Our Imagination

Pathfinder canceled his regularly scheduled inworld office hour today due to “RL meetings all day today.”  This word came to us via a Twitter posting half-way through the hour.  While it’s frustrating enough that we’re relegated to fantasy-world residential status instead of being perceived, and served, as genuine customers of the Lab; it’s a sad realization that the employees don’t consider us real people giving up real time to attend what we view as real meetings with them.  There must be a reason behind the years of concentrated effort toward convincing the real world to view Second Life accounts as figments of our imagination rather than as real people.  Or is it possible that the perception results from the clumsy lack of business like professionalism pervasive in the ranks?  We can’t give up though; Second Life is still the only game in town.  We can only hope that consistency between what’s said and what’s true will one day be normal in the Lab.