Out of Pod Experience

Seriously.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/36ozvs/rip_ccp_going_on_a_strike/
http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/05/06/strikes-may-reach-70000-workers-iceland
https://twitter.com/CCP_karkur/status/601034496058720256
https://twitter.com/CCP_Punkturis/status/601041203522629632

Um uhh oh....
Guess that skins blog will be delayed a tad.

But for real... Wtf does this mean?

Will there be like extended downtime?
I dont understand unions/labor rules.
What is happening?

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I empathize with people affected by this, but that doesn't mean I feel sorry for anyone.

I was 24, had just been married not two months prior, working full-time as a field maintenance tech for the largest construction equipment rental company in the US. My location was the largest in the western region of the country, and second largest in the company. Pay was great, not more than the average for someone in that job, and it was the perfect follow-up of my job in the Air Force... heavy equipment mechanic, mostly construction stuff... so diesel, electrical-over-hydraulics, and a smattering of gas engines for our fleet trucks and such. $24 / hour and no less than 70 hours a week.

Then I got laid off, no warning. Yes, this was 2008.

I lost my apartment, my car, and my will to lift a finger. It was eventually the reason I decided to join the Army. It brought in a paycheck but I lost my marriage, which was ironic because that was the main thing I wanted to keep out of the ordeal.

To make matters dead serious, I saw my third deployment to the Middle East in that enlistement, and it was too tragic even for country songs.

So. About employment, and the issue of income instability. If you found yourself laid off from a company like CCP, in a country like Iceland, in an industry such as video game development, do you stop and question your life decisions at that point? Can you honestly say you don't see where it went wrong?

Decide to work in video games, because that's a great idea.
Take out student loans to get an education in video games, because that's a great idea.
Work on a game like EVE, because it has so much mass appeal.
Move to Iceland, which is great for networking and the global capital of innovation.

But nevermind all that. I hope devs take this time to play EVE and get a feel for it again. Embrace the clunkiness.

Honest, I'm not saying this just to be vicious. It's just exactly what I'm thinking.

Yes they do! They built it just last year

heh, indeed, here the min wages are 562€ net.

gotta think of cost of living too.

ccp has it's own cafeteria to provide food to employees because iceland is expensive to live in.

Strike. Strike. Strike! Ah,... where's the sabotage?

I hope people can appreciate that I felt like **** for a while after posting my story, in fact the rest of the evening. It is not pleasant to put myself back in those shoes.

There was the slow-burn, constant possibility of death, but there was one situation right at the end when odds were I was going to die. I have never been more pissed off at myself for the long string of decisions that placed me there. "Of all the places in the world to be..."

If I wanted to stay a mechanic, what I should have done was stayed in close contact with several people throughout the industry, just in case. I'm glad I didn't know that at the time, because being a mechanic more or less sucks.

This is the same thing, imo. Remote, austere conditions, union turmoil, layoffs for non-union... according to a dev tweet, it snowed yesterday. Holy **** are there any good reasons for being there? I was stationed in North Dakota for 1.5 years, and two winters. I know how much of a drain snowy and cold weather can be.

Pretty much sucks when you want to work, but can't, because the jobs aren't there. The **** cascade and recovery from it can and probably will go on for years. That 'American Dream' shite pisses me off. It creates fake expectations and illusions. Yeah, son of an honest air conditioner installer/maintenance expert, it's your stupid ass fault that you didn't get rich and don't live a Hollywood lifestyle. Bullshit on that.