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Another one bites the dust: John Lander | CCP UNIFEX departs CCP

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#21 - 2014-04-17 04:45:12 UTC
Don't really care who's hired, fired or retired... just get on with a BIG MUCKING expansion for a change.

And although this year's summer expansion is beginning to show some potential, we've seen the song and dance before only to find out the party was cancelled.

Just saying.

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Soulpirate
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#22 - 2014-04-17 04:51:19 UTC
Personally I have never left a job that I liked, or a company that was growing for that matter.

When you see key members of a company politely pealing away from a company, you can be damn sure
there is a bigger story to be told.

They wont be the last, and don't be surprised to see an announcement of another downsizing shortly
after fanfest.
Muestereate
Minions LLC
#23 - 2014-04-17 05:16:16 UTC
My experience at work is that once the paring down starts, it becomes a miserable place to work because everybody below and above you is looking over their shoulders. It gets like playing EVE a bit I guess. :) When companies are new, a creative free and exhilarating feeling follows you in and out of work and into your own life. Once the paring starts, life loses its sheen. Looking back, I made mistakes by not moving on when I first saw it coming. As far as wer concerned, the paring down doesn't mean the companies going under at all, in fact running lean becomes neccesary to keep number growth happening but real growth in a human sense is over, values flip upside down, denial, delusion and perfectionsism replace open mindendess, vision and the humanity of making mistakes and learning. A corporation ceases to be a collection of like minded people and degrades into a business model, a structure or in programming parlance, a function inputting and outputting data. An administrative machine. no wonder a cog is how we feel. Cold and hard and grinding. Life is too short, move the F*** on.
Myxx
The Scope
#24 - 2014-04-17 06:03:00 UTC
Mr M wrote:
Maybe he just want to be able to play with his main again? If Lord Zap or someone comes back in the next couple of week that's when you can start to suspect things.

I don't think Unifex was anyone high profile that they would be noticed.
Caleb Seremshur
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#25 - 2014-04-17 08:39:03 UTC
Coming from an industry that had 110% turn over 3 years ago I wonder about other places who don't experience at least 20% per annum. At the very least the junior and senior staff should be moving on: juniors line their resumes and the seniors semi-retire to a consultant role.
Antisocial Malkavian
Antisocial Malkavians
#26 - 2014-04-17 20:02:21 UTC


Mind you they were downsizing after the summer of rage too; and ppl were just as loud about all the reasons eve was dying then too

And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.

Volar Kang
Kang Industrial
#27 - 2014-04-17 20:15:36 UTC
This is nothing, what really made me wonder was when Nathan Richardsson left in Jan of 2012. That was real news, this is just normal attrition.
Dragon Outlaw
Rogue Fleet
#28 - 2014-04-17 20:26:02 UTC
I would be more concerned if it would be CCP Seagull leaving. The "vision" would go "pouf" !
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#29 - 2014-04-17 20:27:07 UTC
DaReaper wrote:
Not doesn't. CCP is small compaired to larger companies, so when someone leaves it makes a bigger impact. But tis still nothing. As I said it COULD be, but eve seems stable, so boo knows. I honestly am not worried about it at this time.

LOL @ emphasis...

WoD axed... well known CCPers bouncing... we're getting a lot of bad news. Maybe CCP should give us some good news.

Signatures should be used responsibly...
BrundleMeth
State War Academy
Caldari State
#30 - 2014-04-17 20:48:47 UTC
Sibyyl wrote:
I know a lot of you guys like to think that you know how CCP is dying from attrition, or that they just won't have enough developers to wipe your POS related tears if they work on WIS, or how ship skins or rebalancing or refining nerfs will start a mass lemming abandonment of EVE for Star Citizen.. but I really just wish you'd stop.

You post on a forum. You don't manage CCP's finances, hire or work with its developers, or understand CCP's development direction until the company decides to tell you in a dev post. Can we keep our discussions to the game itself? And if you have to criticize the company who develops the game we all really like.. why not take the extra time and do it politely?

/蘭

Wow... At my company you would be labelled everything from a company man to a brown noser or an ass kisser... Definately an undesirable...
BrundleMeth
State War Academy
Caldari State
#31 - 2014-04-17 20:55:50 UTC  |  Edited by: BrundleMeth
Muestereate wrote:
My experience at work is that once the paring down starts, it becomes a miserable place to work because everybody below and above you is looking over their shoulders. It gets like playing EVE a bit I guess. :) When companies are new, a creative free and exhilarating feeling follows you in and out of work and into your own life. Once the paring starts, life loses its sheen. Looking back, I made mistakes by not moving on when I first saw it coming. As far as wer concerned, the paring down doesn't mean the companies going under at all, in fact running lean becomes neccesary to keep number growth happening but real growth in a human sense is over, values flip upside down, denial, delusion and perfectionsism replace open mindendess, vision and the humanity of making mistakes and learning. A corporation ceases to be a collection of like minded people and degrades into a business model, a structure or in programming parlance, a function inputting and outputting data. An administrative machine. no wonder a cog is how we feel. Cold and hard and grinding. Life is too short, move the F*** on.

And then there is another sad state of affairs. The dreaded "take over". I am in my 4th iteration of this.

The company I am in now, that I joined because my last company was bought out and 3000 people kicked, has now also been bought and taken over. Infrastructure is all being moved out. By the end of the year, I will be gone too and one of the very few with a particular specialized skill so I will leave with a nice retention bonus if I stay to the end (25K). As well as my severance on top of that (60K).

But it still sucks, everyones motivation is right down the crapper and so many have bailed already, some IT departments cannot even function.

Hilarious...
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#32 - 2014-04-17 21:08:04 UTC
Gogela wrote:

WoD axed... well known CCPers bouncing... we're getting a lot of bad news. Maybe CCP should give us some good news.


CCP is saving a lot of money on catering and employer SS and insurance payments. That's good news right?



☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
CCP Falcon
#33 - 2014-04-17 21:29:37 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Didn't we just have this thread?


Yes, we did.

Please use the original thread to discuss this.

This one is being locked as a duplicate.

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