[TRENCHES] Thursday, May 1, 2014 - Problem Solved

Geth

Problem Solved
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The Age of Fear

Anonymous

I work for a low-profile, West Coast game studio that has been around for over a decade. I wasn’t there when it started, but my time served there has been pretty significant. While the place has many infamous stories, the topic I bring to you today is about how management had a habit of becoming irrationally paranoid of the individuals they let go. Here’s my recollection of their actual concerns (and these are all individual incidents mind you).

Fear that said ex-employee would somehow:
- Shoot up the office
- Fight them in the parking lot
- Shoot up the office (again)
- Move explosives into the basement
- Consume a child (wtf?)
- Burn the studio down
- Sabotage the servers
- Crash a birthday party and make a scene
- Recruit ex-co-workers when they got better jobs elsewhere (OK, that did happen)

It should also be mentioned that the ones they canned made no threats or showed signs of aggression upon their termination; each individual just went off to greener pastures, some in completely non-game fields. So there you have it, 10+ years in business with zero incidents. Makes you wonder if management felt guilty, perhaps that all those layoffs were unjust?

Hmm.

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Milski

This feels like a huge anticlimax for a plot that didn't even make much sense to begin with. I understand anticlimax is a useful tool, especially in a comedic setting, but it works well when it subverts audience expectations for what the ending would be. Given the predicted ending seemed to be "...?", I can't find this satisfying or even humorously unsatisfying.