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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StupidSmurf" data-source="post: 2760319" data-attributes="member: 35893">We never had pink slip parties. We walked into work one Monday morning, and were told there would be a meeting in about an hour. At the meeting, we were told that the VCs (Venture Capitalists) were withdrawing their funding, and that the doors were closing that Friday. No severence packages, because they had no money for them. They were going to keep a skeleton staff to keep the company running in name, since they were the plaintiffs in a lawsuit, but the lawsuit would go away if the company ceased to exist. So they kept a handful of us (I was one of the eight lucky ones), and were told to just report to work and do some token stuff, and that eventually the lawsuit would be resolved, and they'd just close the doors and we'd be done.After a while, the suit was resolved, the owners got a fat settlement, and our last day was December 31, 1999. The humorous part was that I was promptly rehired to a NEW startup that was started by a few of the VPs of the just-dissolved company! Bwahaha! I started on Jan 2, 2000! I was hired on to be a Games Editor, but the company had no games yet. I worked there till April, got a 20% pay increase, then was laid off (along with a half dozen other people) over the phone during my vacation that July, because they still didn't have Games up and running, so I was expendable! The company closed its doors by the end of that year. Ironically, when I got laid off, I ended up doing temp work as a Games Manual editor at Hasbro, in Beverly! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Aren't dot-coms wonderful?</blockquote>

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