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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 351347" data-attributes="member: 4981">How many of you out there work in the technology or pharmaseuticals industries? People wake up and smell the coffee we are in a ressecion that was spurned by troubles in these two industries. A year and six months ago I worked for a company that had 600 employees in the office that I worked in and a half a million employees world-wide. Today that company, which I no longer work for, has 10 employees in my old office and 90,000 world-wide. CF recently mass fired 80% of it's employees. Enron has been bust for a year. How many of those people do you think are role-players? How many of those people do you think used to support WotC with their money? Economics are all interlinked when one area takes a hit they all take a hit. It is going to take our economy 10 years to recover from the crash on wall street a year and a half ago.Now let's talk corporate politics as they relate to job security. (this is a normal scenario for a company the size of hasbro and probably varies slightly from what happened there but not a hell of a lot) When layoffs are going to happen the managers are asked to turn in lists of their employees prioritiezed by their importance to the company and the need to keep them on. Then the accountants go over the books and turn in lists prioritiezed by salary. Then a number monkey works with these two lists to come up with the list of people taht will acctually be let go. The people that were let go were let go either because their bosses didn't like them, they made too much money or both. As was already mentioned none of these people are going to be able to make their old salary free-lancing. Well there Mr. Brainiac, if they can't make their old salary freelancing then how do you expect WotC to be able to continue paying that salary?</blockquote>

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