Talk about career suicide! That's a social media post that might follow that fella around for a while. Posting in anger... no good comes of that. Sort of like being out after 2 am... it might feel good in the moment, but you'll be paying the piper later.
Having been a part of many layoffs throughout my career, on both sides of the aisle, I think what's happened at WotC is one of:
- They laid off folks eight months ago because of a larger corporate need. Those closer to the design team knew they needed them, and that they were quality designers, but there were bigger fish to fry at the corporate level to make those layoffs make sense. Doesn't mean that the corporate requirement made sense... it just means that the management overseeing the designers had no choice in the matter. Having said that, the likelihood that the corporate requirement had benefits to the company that outweighed the costs of letting good people go is high. Folks have a habit of dismissing those that take actions they are angry with as stupid and uninformed. That can be the case, but that is a very dangerous assumption to make.
- Maybe there were actually problems with those let go! Not a nice thing to think about, and honestly pretty unlikely, but it's definitely a possibility.
- Option 1 occurred. But... a new project(s) since came up that was too good to let pass by, and a larger design team was required.
My opinion (based on my history with these things) is that number three occurred. But who knows.
Whatever happened, not a thing to get upset about.
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