Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
So let me see if I understand you Shemeska. You're spinning "no layoffs" as a negative?
It's Almost the Season for WOTC layoff!
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So let me see if I understand you Shemeska. You're spinning "no layoffs" as a negative?
In principle, they can just use freelance contractors to take up the work on 4E splatbooks if they are indeed understaffed.
Aberzanzorax
Hero
Actually, it sounds as though Shemeska is "spinning" no layoffs as "It's not really 'no layoffs', it's just no layoffs right now, in the holiday season...they've been doing it all year long."
But I'll step back for a moment and give WotC all the accolades they deserve for not firing people at christmas!
GRATS WotC!
And, (more sincerely,) my best wishes to all writers and developers in the RPG field...I, and I can only assume many others here at ENworld, really appreciate you, and wish you long lived and fruitful careers.
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Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
You mean the "unannounced layoffs", which is pure speculation on his behalf with no basis in any evidence? Or the "talk" of them being understaffed, which is pure speculation on his behalf with no basis in any evidence? Or maybe the speculation about ongoing slow layoffs with no basis in evidence?
As far as we know, they had one layoff, and after that layoff people in this thread were speculating there would be another one during the Christmas season. There is no evidence any such Christmas layoff happened. Spinning that with stuff Shem is speculating about without an evidence to support it in reaction to hearing there was no Christmas layoff is, at best, a bizarre reaction. I mean, who reacts to that kind of good news by imagining it's bad news?
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StreamOfTheSky
Adventurer
I wasn't expecting layoffs this time of year this year. Isn't that big D&D Essentials brouhaha thingy still being churned out?
But, I'll cautiously join in the with the accolades for now. Great job not laying people off this time, WotC! It's not often you surpass our expactations for you, no matter how much we lower them, and this time you've really outdone yourselves.
But, I'll cautiously join in the with the accolades for now. Great job not laying people off this time, WotC! It's not often you surpass our expactations for you, no matter how much we lower them, and this time you've really outdone yourselves.
Shemeska
Adventurer
Pretty much this.
Otherwise any speculation on my intent and content is just Mistwell being the Mistwell we've come to love and expect.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
Pretty much this.
Otherwise any speculation on my intent and content is just Mistwell being the Mistwell we've come to love and expect.
Shem, other than the one layoff earlier in 2010, what other layoffs are you aware of that they have been doing all year long?
Shemeska
Adventurer
Off the top of my head, they gutted the fiction/novel editor staff later on in the year. I think there was one other smaller round, but it's easy enough to google, and I'm currently digging out from the NC snowpocalypse. But snowed in with the girlfriend is not the worst fate I can think of.
