Slant Six Games - Layoffs

slipsius

Didnt see any posts about slant six, just EA.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/06/11/layoffs-hit-slant-six-games.aspx

This industry... Kaboom.

alexk

slipsius wrote: »

Didnt see any posts about slant six, just EA.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/06/11/layoffs-hit-slant-six-games.aspx

This industry... Kaboom.

Huh? Game industry seems fine to me. Vancouver, on the other hand, not so good.

PixelMasher

i raise a beer to more fellow laid off vancouverites. come to montreal, its badass here.

Orgoth02

Fasten your seat belts we are heading for a crash

Justin Meisse

Orgoth02 wrote: »

Fasten your seat belts we are heading for a crash

I don't see a crash coming. The game industry is just constantly changing like it always has. It sucks losing your job but don't listen to the doomsayers, you aren't entering into the gloomy job market of 2008-2009

skylebones

Justin Meisse wrote: »

I don't see a crash coming. The game industry is just constantly changing like it always has. It sucks losing your job but don't listen to the doomsayers, you aren't entering into the gloomy job market of 2008-2009

Those were dark days.

jordan.kocon

Lots of good memories at Slant Best of luck to everyone!

Jonas Ronnegard

Kinda feels like we are in a war rather then a working field,

well well more casualties.

Barbarian

Best wishes to those affected. I will add that I am familiar with many people in other industries/businesses that were laid off during the last nine months and propose that we are more sensitive to such bad news impacting the VG industry, but that our industry may be doing better overall than many others. I hope so. I just bought two games yesterday that I really was not overly excited about, but the recent news convinced me to buy the games (as opposed to spending the money on something else).

Di$array

Temporary layoffs, what crap is that? It's shame to hear one of these stories each week and I hope everyone bounces back.

EDIT

Just seen the date of that article. It was created 11th June 2012.

slipsius

Oups, I must of posted an older one. But, Same shit happened! Im not just completely out of it!

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/10/slant-six-games-rolls-out-temporary-layoffs-again/

jordan.kocon

Di$array wrote: »

Just seen the date of that article. It was created 11th June 2012.

I remember when those lay offs happened a while back. From what I understand talking to people who were let go this time around, it sounds like pretty much only management is left

cptSwing

Well, let 'em make their own game then.

PixelMasher

no no......they brought a bunch of people back and then proceeded to lay them off again a couple days ago. also the whole temporary layoff thing is so they dont have to pay severance until the absolute last second if they truley cant bring people back. which means most people will have found new jobs after 3 months and the company doesnt have to pay severance to most of those effected. which is pretty sketchy.

also if you are collecting employment insurance for the 3 months of temp layoff.........its up to a max of 40% or so of your salary or a maximum of ~700 a week. which is a hell of a lot less than what they would normallly be making.

Cheez

For those affected, we're hiring for a lot of positions:
http://www.bungie.net/en-us/AboutUs#!page=careers

Best of luck