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Post by Skysong on Mar 16, 2006 17:57:26 GMT -5
Wow, what a day it's been! Today me and about 90% of the other game testers found out that we're not being recontracted! Our last day is next Friday! So now I'm officially out of work.
Nice of them to tell us with enough time to get a new job, eh?
So that's been my day today. How's everyone else doing?
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Post by Silvanon on Mar 16, 2006 17:59:47 GMT -5
Ouch. That is just not cool of them to do.
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Post by Rhayeqasr on Mar 16, 2006 18:00:10 GMT -5
...wow. That's no good!
Haha, my day hasn't been that great either. One of my best friends flipped her car into a ditch. She mistook the gas as the brake and drove up a tree. She's fine but the car is a wreck.
I hope you find another job...game tester, eh? That must have been fun!
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Post by Skysong on Mar 16, 2006 18:03:51 GMT -5
Well, I figure at least it was most of us, instead of just a few.. I think I'd feel a bit worse if I'd been one of a select few to get fired XD; All us people who're getting fired went out and had a nice lunch together. But yeah, totally classy company, not giving us enough time to find new work ^__^
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Post by Dawby on Mar 16, 2006 18:22:43 GMT -5
*wince*
Wow, sorry. Not cool at all. How long had you been at this place?
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Post by Skysong on Mar 16, 2006 18:28:43 GMT -5
I've been with them about 10 months.. would have been a year this May! There's people getting fired who've worked here a lot longer than me, though, so the general mood is understandably gloomy today. A lot of people just went home.
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Post by Dawby on Mar 16, 2006 19:08:49 GMT -5
:-(
why are they laying off testers, anyway?
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Post by Skysong on Mar 16, 2006 19:11:19 GMT -5
Apparently it's because the release of the PS3 has been bumped back, and so there's not much to do for the next few months. Not to mention that EA's been suffereing lately anyways.. there was a layoff of about 5% of the whole company a couple months ago.
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Post by Dawby on Mar 16, 2006 19:27:53 GMT -5
ah... so let's blame it on playstation.
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Post by Skysong on Mar 16, 2006 19:35:01 GMT -5
Agreed >O
Well, that and the fact that they're filling the building additions to the studio with stuff like tanning beds and special rock from some quarry halfway around the world. Better to eliminate the people than the luxuries, I guess ^__^
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Post by Dawby on Mar 16, 2006 19:47:09 GMT -5
tanning beds??
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Post by Skysong on Mar 16, 2006 19:49:47 GMT -5
Yep, apparently they installed four shiny-new tanning beds for the programmers to use! Mmm, priorities ^__^
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Post by Dawby on Mar 16, 2006 19:53:57 GMT -5
duuuude.... that's some messed up human resources department
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Post by Old Storm on Mar 17, 2006 6:43:34 GMT -5
*squishes them under her mighty wolfy paws for you* See them try to tan That!
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Post by Pega on Mar 17, 2006 11:51:39 GMT -5
*can't help but laugh at the taning beds* "Let's kill off the rest of them with skin cancer ASAP, okay captain?" "Right-o!"
XD
Honestly, though. That totally and unfailingly sucks.
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