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Trenches comic: Tuesday December, 13 2011 - Overdose
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The game has been accepted! Time to celebrate! Or not.
12/13/2011 - Anonymous
I programmed for a very small game company back in 1998, right at the end of a deathmarch. The previous lead programmer had left, and I had been hired to help tie up loose ends and get the game out the door. There were seven of us. Two programmers, two artists, the president/designer, the lackey, and a single QA intern.
We finally finish up and submit the final build to the publisher, waiting with baited breath. I had quit a job at IBM to join this team. The others had similar stories of following their dreams to do what they loved. Contribute to something they had a true passions for.
The publisher accepted, and we were overjoyed!
And then the president fired us over lunch the next day. The company dissolved.
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# paweaboo Talk about the animu's with friendly people on SLASHnet.
What a douche.
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Pedantry finished.
Sure it's tasty, but the things they do to your breath is just horrendous.
also: "lawfulness"
assuming it's the noun form of lawful and not some sort of mashed together "fullness of law"
hurm...
also, not Law
This is so Kurtz writing. And I love it.
That would be the hugest dick move ever.
Also, "not law," I agree with The Infra. Definitely Kurtz writing there. :^:
This. And he didn't want to pay them for one day more than he needed them. He must talk a mean game. There are those out there who will sell you on the most amazing "we're going to be the next id/Zynga/Popcap/(name your favorite company) and we'll all be rich" story and it's not surprising someone who hasn't worked in this industry would take such bait just to get into it. Talk about learning the hard way.
But it takes a special kind of bastard to go through crunch time working shoulder to shoulder with guys and then let them go the very day they are no longer needed. I hope the author didn't agree to take a pile of stock in lue of a decent salary, though he almost certainly did.
No it doesn't. It takes someone who isn't fucking rich to do this.
It was a company not the best friends forever club.
I'm not sure if you know this but it costs money to hire people. Even if they aren't doing anything. As such if there isn't anything for them to do, it hurts the company.
When you hire a plumber do you just keep paying for him for like a few days afterwards?
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
No, but I also don't tell him that if he just does one more thing for less than he normally charges then I'll totally call him when I redo the entire bathroom and install a hot tub out back.
Then again, my plumber is my uncle, so the analogy kind of falls apart.
We haven't seen Lord Hate Star's been-shaped sidekick yet!
They almost certainly weren't expecting to be paid for doing nothing. I think the implication is that they were busting their asses for something they could be part of, rather than getting canned like so much unskilled seasonal labor. Even Best Buy will tell you point blank right when you start that they're going to fire you in a couple months.
But this is how game studios work. Haven't we seen a bunch of other stories, clearly outlining that the expectation is most people lose their jobs when a game is finished?
Well I guess now we know who the president was.