Caring For Your Employees

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Home VHS: Caring For Your Employees

General

Overview

The player can reduce boredom by -5 for each line of dialog when in the vicinity of a television playing the VHS.

The VHS can be used with an appropriate television to play the monologue of an employer explicating how best to treat your employees, to have a healthy workplace environment. At first the speech seems genuine and reasonable but then it unfolds its vile shape.

Transcript

Marcia:
Hi there. I'm Marcia O'Donnell.

If you're watching this, you may have been treating your employees a little poorly.

But we all make mistakes. That's why pencils have erasers.

Let's start with the basics.

Your employees are human beings.

They may be a little - or a lot - slower than us managers.

They may not drive stylish cars, or work as hard...

But in most other ways they're just like you.

Make sure they have ample breaks, and snacks available.

Ensure their bathroom is of an acceptable standard.

And most importantly - don't put up with any talk of unions.

The main cause of employee-manager breakdown is unions...

...who point out things all good employees know to ignore.

If you have to shout, make sure to isolate the employee so others don't get upset.

And if they insist on only working nine-to-five...

...make it known they will never advance. Even if they won't advance anyway.

Follow these tips for a healthier, happier workplace.

Location

The loot distributions can be found in the table(s) below.

VHS_Home distributionShow / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default 'apocalypse' loot settings, with no luck modifier, and average zombie density. The higher the density of zombies in an area, the higher the effective chance of an item spawning. Chance is also influenced by the lucky and unlucky traits. Duplicate entries do exist, but have been removed for clarity.

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
closet	cardboardbox	11.21%
closet	smallbox	11.21%
garagestorage	cardboardbox	11.21%
garagestorage	smallbox	11.21%
joanstudio	shelves	11.21%
kitchen	cardboardbox	11.21%
kitchen	crate	11.21%
kitchen	smallbox	11.21%
livingroom	cardboardbox	11.21%
livingroom	crate	11.21%
livingroom	shelves	11.21%
livingroom	smallbox	11.21%
livingroom	wardrobe	5.77%
SafehouseLoot	shelves	23.67%
SafehouseLoot	shelves	11.21%
SafehouseLoot_Late	shelves	23.67%
SafehouseLoot_Late	shelves	11.21%
SafehouseLoot_Mid	shelves	23.67%
SafehouseLoot_Mid	shelves	11.21%
shed	smallbox	11.21%
storageunit	cardboardbox	11.21%
storageunit	crate	11.21%
storageunit	metal_shelves	11.21%
storageunit	smallbox	11.21%
studio	shelves	11.21%

This VHS will only spawn once and only in living room shelves, making it incredibly rare.

Code

Code snippet! This section contains source code from Project ZomboidShow / Hide

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_entertainment.txt

Retrieved: Build 42.0.2

item VHS_Home
	{
		DisplayName = VHS - Home,
		DisplayCategory = Entertainment,
		Type = Normal,
		Weight = 0.5,
		Icon = Cassette3,
		MediaCategory = Home-VHS,
		WorldStaticModel = VHSBox3,
		Tags = IgnoreZombieDensity;IsFireFuel,
		FireFuelRatio = 0.25,
	}