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correct so I will give up crytek
Any proof?
FWIW I've heard the same thing through the grapevine. I'm not in the games industry myself, so appropriate amounts of salt required.
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Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?
#262The company where I work has been going through problems and for the past few months people keep being let go. After 4 months of watching an average of 2 people loose their jobs per month, I had the idea to register dayssincelastlayoff.com. My idea was to have a 'X Days Since Last Injury' kind of image on the site that would just show this stat for various companies. My thinking was that knowing how frequently a comp…
I went through this once. It sucks.
The company used to lay off groups of people every other Friday or so. A friend lost a job every time. Everyone knew the company was going to shut down and we were just waiting it out. It was during the dot.com bubble burst, so it wasn't like there were millions of new jobs to jump to. I finally got my Friday meeting after something like 6 rounds.
Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?
#263I was fired from Wickr.com a few months after their layoffs. I was fired from Wickr a few months ago. The given reason was they considered me not a Senior Android Developer and that was my title - I asked too many questions apparently. My manager indicated that if my title had been Android Developer there probably would not have been a problem. I don't care about titles really. I was hired in 2014 as a contractor for…
I would honestly refrain from telling people you were fired in that case, and simply state you were laid off. I would then begin to infer that something fishy was going on internally and that you're probably better off not being involved with the company anymore.
It really sounds to me like management didn't know how to deal with the situation and a "performance review" was simply their scapegoat, and not the reality of why they let you go. I wouldn't be surprised if you were performing at a high level and they were just trying to cut the team down to the originals. These things happen all the time. Good luck to you!
Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
correct so I will give up crytek
Any proof?
no proof that would not make it so that peoples' future is not ruined. they all depend on not pissing off the wrong people in order to get the money they are owed. reality is that no one within crytek trusts the management since they have lied for several months about what is going on.
i heard that a sister studio in bulgaria no longer has management because of the disconnection in the company.
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You could share thoughts on Glassdoor, right? I would like to find (or create) a service where we can talk about the real dirt at companies. Encouraging honest accounts without disparagment is a hard balance. Building an identity and reputation system where reviews are trustworthy is hard, especially if you also want anonymity. Like many people, I've worked at places with big problems. In cases where friends apply, I…
> I would like to find (or create) a service where we can talk about the real dirt at companies. I'd be waiting for the wikileaks dumps of that service, followed by firings. Data wants to be naked and exposed.
Why would such a service hold leak worthy data?
Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
correct so I will give up crytek
Any proof?
Lots of complaints on Glassdoor[1]
[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Crytek-Reviews-E347451.htm
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#267There is a big german gamecompany that hasn't paid 300+ employees in 4 months so they are bleeding employees instead of firing them.
I'm amazed people are hanging on after four months without a paycheck. If I weren't an actual founder of the company, I think I'd be willing to put up with one missed paycheck. Sometimes shit just happens. But if a second was missed, I'd walk out.
crytek has offices in many countries and employees are not guaranteed to have the same rights and expectings in all of them. the truth is also that the managers of crytek spend most of their time coming up with the lies they need to tell to keep people waiting for money and it works because people know they also cannot fight an international battle against a big company.
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#268At one of the bigger cable companies. My contract was recently terminated, I was told end of September it would end by December 30th. Luckily I knew this was coming, as my project wasn't feasible. Oddily enough this is my second contract with the company. Same thing happened the first time around. On to greener pastures I hope.
Isn't constructive dismissal supposed to protect you from being put on a failing project/team just so they can fire you?
Unless you're a very senior executive or in a union, it's pretty rare to have a constructive dismissal clause in your employee contract. For most companies, 85% of the point of having that contract is to reaffirm at-will employment.
Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?
#269Thomson Reuters is. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/thomson-re...
The newspaper / print media industry generally is doing abysmally poorly. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/business/media/buyouts-wal... Submitted yesterday, didn't go anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.co/item?id=12834583 I've been picking up newspapers and magazines and been quietly horrified at how thin they are. I'm no fan of advertising, but I know it's how they pay the bills, and there are no ads there. The Ch…
> The newspaper / print media industry generally is doing abysmally poorly.
They're not doing well but I wouldn't use the term abysmal. Print media is still declining but a lot of publishers are offsetting much of that loss with online revenue.
Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?
#270VisualMeta GmbH in Berlin. They're a 'start-up' backed by Axel Springer, Berlin. They fired about 60-70 people recently, some of them on their first day of work. Most of their devs come from non-existent countries (China/Eritrea/Pakistan etc) and they're paid abysmally (€32-34k). It's a surprise that this news wasn't covered at all in Berlin start-up press.
"non-existent" ?
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