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Originally Posted by seankreynolds  It depends on what you mean by "have to."
If your RPG division expected to make $10,000,000 dollars this year, and it now looks like it's "only" going to make $8,000,000 dollars this year, does that mean you "have to" lay off people so your numbers are better? |
I think this a very salient point. A company we're dealing with at the moment in the window furnishing industry is going through this exact same process (as I'm sure many are at the moment). It is all about meeting targets for them and with the worldwide economic downturn, everyone's doing their best to "look good". [How good it actually looks depends very much upon which side of the fence one is sitting]
However, I'll ask again now that I've seen a few responses and respected points of view: "what does this mean"?
The following analogy may be disturbingly appropriate. In Australia here where most farmers have to regularly deal with significant drought issues, the culling of some of your cattle is unfortuantely necessary. However, in this process a farmer will never touch their breeding stock unless they absolutely have to. Have
WotC cut into their "breeding stock" in their thinning of the herd? I can't help but feel that they have (but that is very much from a fan-based but ultimately uninformed point of view).
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Herremann the Wise
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