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Geek Culture / EA Cuts

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Dave J
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Posted: 4th Feb 2006 02:39
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6143510.html

What they call 'realigning resources' actually means 5% of their staff will lose their jobs (which is around 350 people). This has to do with their annual profit margin falling 31% ($116 million), but it's still quite harsh to fire so many staff in one shot. Apparently, the cuts were primarily in Redwood Shores, EA Tiburon and EA Canada, so here's hoping that Jeku and the people he know haven't been affected. Either way, it's still nasty.


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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 4th Feb 2006 03:03
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Sorry JeKu. Cash-Money needs to be made.

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Jeku
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Posted: 4th Feb 2006 03:37
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Nope, don't worry, I wasn't affected by this (thank you, Jesus). That's all I have to say about that


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Mattman
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Posted: 4th Feb 2006 05:09
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Jeku, update your blog. I actually was a repeated reader.

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Les Horribres
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Posted: 7th Feb 2006 04:16
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LoL Indeed... jeku, what signifys an important enough event to "blog" it?

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re faze
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Posted: 7th Feb 2006 05:18
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[re faze] : ok kids, due to the way the economy is going, we're going to have to let one of you go.
[billy]: aww but dad! I love living here!
[re faze] : ok... aaron were gonna have to let you go. No hard feelings.

[aaron] : sniffles, but .. dont i get any warning?
[re faze] : yeah, this is a 24 hour notice.

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Jeku
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Posted: 7th Feb 2006 10:37
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Ahh yes, my blog. Didn't think there were any readers :-P Since I've gotten the job in December I haven't had much time to do anything else.

I can assure you that I will update it either tomorrow (Tuesday) or Wednesday


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adr
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Posted: 7th Feb 2006 10:42
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I hate to be the cynical one here, but I've been made redundant twice in the past four months and so all I can say is "the new guy goes first".

If your management team have an ounce of sense and see that the new guy is much better than the old guy, then I'm sure you're golden.

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