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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
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01-08-2004 11:41
lol, good point Aaron 
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Jack Digeridoo
machinimaniac
Join date: 29 Jul 2003
Posts: 1,170
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01-08-2004 11:57
well said Chip!
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Drathor Kothari
Elder Dragon
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 84
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01-08-2004 12:43
The management vs worker struggles are sometimes facinating, and sometimes frustrating. A copany needs to types of people. You need workers who have skills required to do work. Programmers, electrical engineers, writers, bricklayers, ect. Then you have managers who handle all the paperwork, meetings, scheduling and other tasks that let the workers do their jobs. The problem that I see currently is that because managment is considered higher on the ladder than workers that it is assumed that they are somehow worth more, or better. They are not. They are serving a diffrent function.. but because they are closer to the paycheck writing and decisions, they will tend to get paid more, have better perks and have access to upper levels of the company to handle their concerns. Workers can and do have over inflated opinions of themselves. But they can't DO much about it, where managers can get big, expensive offices and titles and paychecks when they decide they are super important. Sometimes I feel like becomming a communist, but that is even more prone to corruption.  |
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Huns Valen
Don't PM me here.
Join date: 3 May 2003
Posts: 2,749
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01-08-2004 13:50
I think this is what happened... - Evan is hired at LL
- Some venture capital falls through
- LL re-examines its budget and decides on a likely performance envelope according to current projections
- Accordingly, LL lays off some workers and scales back new hardware rollouts and whatever else
- "Whatever else" probably includes changes to the way resources are allocated, which leads to...
- 1.2
- In the meantime (this particular blog entry is months old), LL's venture capital intake may or may not have changed, which we don't know about
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
Posts: 2,716
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01-08-2004 16:36
I read the blog, and I got the impression that he was an employee who had a minor place at LL. Since he was in and out in 13 days, I'd imagine that he wasn't there long enough to be in on sensitive company information. He pretty much told it the way he saw it. Put simply, he probably knew as much about LL's financial state as a microbe on an elephant's ass knows about the state of the same elephant's scalp.  |