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Crystal Falcon
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11-08-2008 16:14
According to this Massively story: http://www.massively.com/2008/11/07/linden-lab-layoffs/
This weekend four Linden Research employees were let go... Of future interest though, from their response to Massively about it: ...increasing our investment in core strategic initiatives related to platform stability, usability and several new product areas. As we've refocused on these core initiatives... _____________________
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Ceka Cianci
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Join date: 31 Jul 2006
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11-08-2008 16:33
keep watching the changes here that flow with RL's..
i said only last week they may be cutting back even with these increases.. LL is feeling the pinch just like everyone is in the country.. _____________________
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Viktoria Dovgal
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Join date: 29 Jul 2007
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11-08-2008 16:36
I think they just got through with their quarterly reviews, so perhaps "layoff" is a euphemism.
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Ceka Cianci
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11-08-2008 16:40
could just be a rumor also..you know how SL blogs are hehehehe
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Argos Hawks
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Join date: 24 Jan 2007
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11-08-2008 16:47
4 people compared to the expansion of the past year is really not a big story. Now if the population of SL could vote on which 4, then we'd have a story worth talking about!
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Dekka Raymaker
thinking very hard
Join date: 4 Feb 2007
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11-08-2008 16:56
M, Philip, Jack & Torley
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Ciaran Laval
Mostly Harmless
Join date: 11 Mar 2007
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11-08-2008 16:56
It's 6 less than Valleywag said. They've been signing deals with third party companies, there has probably been a redundancy in some roles due to that.
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Blot Brickworks
The end of days
Join date: 28 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,076
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11-08-2008 17:10
Well as I said in another post LL are hurting.IMHO. It would be strange if they were not.The world economy is crap,it's been getting this way for a while. Why should SL be different from anywhere else?...I just lowered a good mates hours in RL,why? I needed too.sorry.
Second Life is no different from any other business out there,also they are up against real and up and coming, competition. I have checked most out and they really can't hold a candle to the real deal,and of course that's here.I hope they sweat it out and keep going for all our sakes. Don't you? They might have to downsize a bit but I am afraid that's the way of the world at this time. _____________________
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Lyla Tunwarm
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Join date: 10 Jul 2008
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11-08-2008 17:24
Possibly the Big SpaceShip deal had something to do with it. That outfit maybe doing what those laid off where doing. 300 people for SL seems like a lot of people. What the heck are they all doing?
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Void Singer
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11-08-2008 17:43
What the heck are they all doing? ignoring us... oops was that out loud? _____________________
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Cappy Frantisek
Open Source is the Devil!
Join date: 27 Oct 2006
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11-08-2008 18:23
ignoring us... oops was that out loud? no it wasn't, but i heard it! LOL |
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
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11-08-2008 18:36
Though 4 out of 300 is not much, the "layoffs" just may spur some of the remaining to get out of that cozy cubicle and actually do something constructive for the betterment of the platform they are all so proud of.
Geeze, someone just might have to do something they really don't want to do..........just like I have to do every freaking day of the work week. |
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Chris Norse
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Join date: 1 Oct 2006
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11-08-2008 19:05
Though 4 out of 300 is not much, the "layoffs" just may spur some of the remaining to get out of that cozy cubicle and actually do something constructive for the betterment of the platform they are all so proud of. Geeze, someone just might have to do something they really don't want to do..........just like I have to do every freaking day of the work week. Psst Peggy, they laid off the only 4 who actually did anything. They were making the others look bad. _____________________
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
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11-08-2008 19:28
Psst Peggy, they laid off the only 4 who actually did anything. They were making the others look bad. You're shittin' me..............a Linden actually did something?  |
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Alicia Sautereau
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Join date: 20 Feb 2007
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11-08-2008 20:55
Psst Peggy, they laid off the only 4 who actually did anything. They were making the others look bad. so Torley got shafted  |
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Ceka Cianci
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11-08-2008 21:00
M, Philip, Jack & Torley Are you serious? _____________________
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Osgeld Barmy
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11-08-2008 21:14
Geeze, someone just might have to do something they really don't want to do..........just like I have to do every freaking day of the work week. yep i drive an hour, to spend 8 hours doing crap i really don't wanna do, just to drive an hour back and do it again the next day but in the last 3 workdays ive gotten 4 emails and a voice mail complementing our department (the other guy and i), which makes you feel a little bit more pride in your job where as linden labs has the opposite situation, the TAO lets them do what they want, and pretty much whenever they want and for their (cough) efforts they get constant backlash and badmouthing maybe i need to send them the banner we have up in the office "you make customer happy" (i work for a Korean based company) they have long forgotten that simple malformed phrase |
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Perre Anatine
reflect..repent..reboot
Join date: 6 Jun 2007
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11-08-2008 21:21
Oh good God tell me they aren't letting Torley go..what am I gonna do when I get bored..?
Get real people they aren't going to get rid of Torley, he's the voice of SL and Mike he's just built Nautilus (he did didn't he..) and Jack..he's Jack..yeah!! and Chris..sorry..Philip..well hell yeah too!! Perre..  Oh I'm gonna feel so bad if any if these guys go...  |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
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11-08-2008 21:56
I see that LL has recently hired
Tom Hale, formerly Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Knowledge Worker Business Unit at Adobe Systems, as LL's "Chief Product Officer", Clare Rees, formerly a Senior Group Manager at Adobe, as LL's "European Marketing Director", Scott Sechser, former Operations Manager at the White House, as LL's "Government Accounts Manager", Adam Blondin, formerly Event Producer at The Electric Sheep Company, as Jr. Community Manager, Frank Ambrose, formerly at Knight Point Systems, as "SVP Global Technology", Beth Gray, formerly Paid Search Sr. Account Manager at shopping.com, as "Director of Business Analysis / Financial Planning" ( why can't they use an ampersand instead of a slash?), Amanda Van Nuys, formerly Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Organic, as "Director, Enterprise Marketing", and I seem to recall reading about a big hire in progress, of 50 or 100 people, my memory is not clear on this matter. _____________________
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