HairyO wrote on Mar 1^st, 2014 at 3:57am:


Lol!   

pnellesen wrote on Feb 28^th, 2014 at 7:41pm:


Nope. Long Haul and all that.

majmalphunktion wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2014 at 10:30am:


So what project will you be working on in 2015? unless your going to be that guy?

mystafyi wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2014 at 7:17pm:


Well, it won�t be Asheron�s Call.

At this point, �A Killer Year��� should become Turbine�s next meme.

Does this mean we're the red haired step child again?

Rasczak wrote on Mar 5^th, 2014 at 1:43am:



again? We never stopped

No company worth working for loses or trashes this many folks so quickly.

and Disney just cut 500.

Ckorik wrote on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 9:56am:



Tell that to a Frog Boss.
( firing people is a pain in the ass in France.... on the other hand finding a job is also a pain in the ass ( there's a few exceptions though... if you want to be a plumber, an electrician, a butcher, a baker, a mechanical manufacturing technician, and several other you'll have many opportunities ) )

Consider that a company like Disney firing 500 people here would make the news headline before Ukraine, the Olympic games, and the latest political scandal.

majmalphunktion wrote on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 9:45am:


Exactly! It happens all the time, and if Turbine had kept it below 1/2 of 1% like Disney did, we wouldn't be worried at all. It's the scope of the change that worries us.

Unfortunately, Turbine is better known for big changes than for smart ones�

majmalphunktion wrote on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 9:45am:


Disney has 150,000 employee's, so 500 is nothing.

Turbine smokes a third of its employee's before their latest game is even in beta. Have you heard rumors of the next wave yet?

mystafyi wrote on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 7:09pm:


The layoffs were 1/4 of Disney's game division.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/business/media/disneys-game-and-internet-divis...

But yeah if you look at Turbine the same way you just looked at Disney - Well Time Warner employes 34,000 employees so this was just a drop in the bucket and so much statistical noise.

Ckorik wrote on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 12:35pm:



Nothing new here....

It's a common joke in Froggy Lands... 20 years ago when I was looking for my first job I was reading job posts that were basically saying the following :
- Engineer from a Grande �cole with 5 year experience, no more than 30 old.
- PhD with 4 Years experience, no more than 25 years old.


If you get your baccalaur�at at 18 ( you're lucky ), you have two years ( Math Sup/Math Sp� [ yup that's Superior Math and Special Math... Math are tough ] ), then 3 years Engineering school ( Grande Ecole ).
Add one year of Military Joy along the way and if you're lucky you can hit the restriction... But if for whatever reason you get unlucky ( 4 month Delay for the Military Joy for example, if it's in the middle of the Engineering School, it just FUBAR one full year and catching up is going to be a bitch. ) you will not meet the requirement.

The best one is the PhD though... since it is not possible to meet the age requirement, unless you managed to skip the Military Joy. ( 18+7 to PhD = 25 + 1 year of Military Joy  = Over 25 . )

That's when I stopped looking at the Diploma and Age requirements and just answered to job posts that were in my competence domains... sometime HR drones are silly people.