Friendly reminder, especially if you work for EA

MagicSugar

Back up your stuff asap. Take home personal belongings (like self bought office furniture).

Once they call you to kick you out you're pretty much frozen out of the network, your machine and your room.

Not a personal experience but passing along tips in case it's your "turn".

Microneezia

wow, thanks, there arnt enough actual job loss threads that we needed a warning one too!

Sith Happens.

Yikes, EA again?

MagicSugar

HR likes to cut on Fridays.

Justin Meisse

EA stated the layoffs would be done by the end of March - Good one MagicSugar, best "first post" thread on an EA layoff story ever, you're a class act in my book.

low odor

I heard you'll wake up in a bathtub filled with ice and one of your kidneys will be gone too.....careful napping in an EA office

MagicSugar

Not sure of the overall trend but it looks like they're going after senior guys now. Multi year vets, across departments.

First they got rid of qa in mass, now it's whoever's not on an active management role but done in small groups. Too late to ass kiss now. If you're on the hit list...that's it.

Rookies/ jr guys are probably safe and saved for the next cycle.

Anyways, if you do a lot shopping online at work or banking/paypal, make sure you have your passwords listed outside of work.

Justin Meisse

MagicSugar: do you honestly believe anyone at EA doesn't know these things? If so than I apologize but this thread smacks of schadenfreude and I must call you a cocksmith.

_Aurel_

I just got an offer from them to work in QA.

So what's the lifespan of someone working at EA nowadays?

Microneezia

seriously if "that's it" like you say then why bother posting, you arnt saving people from any hardship, loosing your job isnt emotionally balanced by properly organizing your passwords and action figures in anticipation.

I agree with Justin on this...

MagicSugar

Just sincere good intentions fellows.

I just know some guys didn't see this coming...to them. The tragic part, guys in the same dept knew ahead of time who's due next and didn't bother cluing in the fired people (so how could they retrieve their work for projects not sched for release now).

Not cool to see a grown man cry.

Rob Galanakis

MagicSugar wrote: »

I just know some guys didn't see this coming...to them.

You are right. But this isn't lack of information; this is lack of consciousness. The same people aren't going to suddenly wake up because they read something cryptic on a messageboard, unfortunately.