I don't know why, but this made me laugh so hard
It's the moronic delivery, you sounded so happy
I saw this happy guy in my head genuinely saying that, he looked like these guys from uuuuhhh cyanide and happiness
The people in charge of laying off workers are notoriously fricking pricks about it. It’s like an unwritten rule in business that the process of laying off workers needs to be as dickish as humanly possible. Conventional wisdom says that wagies are much more likely to try to start shit if you do it nicely.
>QA tester
Okay?
I mean weird but what does that have to do with Ganker?
Are you going to post about them being buttholes to the cafeteria staff as well?
Even with all the bullshit, I'm still tempted to pivot to games. I want to work on something I actually care about. I don't think I've ever really enjoyed a job.
The only chance of you getting a stable job in game dev just means you're a cog with zero creative decisions and that's just how it is by design unless you just love working on soulless woke corpo crap.
The other side is working in small indie studios where your job is always on the line because the company has no stake and could go under at any moment but at least you have a chance at having creative input.
I work in the Pharmaceutical Industry and when I quit my last job they let me keep my keycard and they never even disabled it as I used it to get in several times to go visit my friends still working there. Why is game industry so secretive?
I knew this guy who did QA testing for Obsidian and at the end of development all the testers ware invited to a parking lot and they all got a brand new sports car!
QA tester back then (and still today) is the equivalent of finding a person on the street and having them play your game for free for hours while getting paid to do it. It was never a long term job position and only exists in a vacuum today because multibillionare corporations exist
It sounds needlessly cruel, but I've heard enough bullshit from QA stories that I can believe it.
The big thing is that QA always tries to use it as a stepping stone into Dev work (a lot of them are sold it on this idea), so the managers try keep them away and separate. Plus they're contractors. So you'll hear about staff parties happening, and the contracted employees aren't invited or welcome to attend. A real 2-strata life.
I have self published RL games and writing projects with hundreds of thousands of collective views with glowing praise and only a single company ever bothered to reject me with a real email from a real person.
Hey, I tried to join to fix the writing crisis but they didn't want me.
>play games all day
>"working"
it's fricking neverwinter, it's only fair that you get paid for playing it
>QA tester for Neverwinter Nights 2
I would've kicked their asses out to the curb too, they didn't assure the quality of shit
it's one thing to report bugs, it's another if the dev team actually fixes them
HOLY SOUL
This is what they've taken from you...
This wouldn't fly today without a major controversy, no fun allowed
You've never had a job. Let alone had a job be taken away from you.
Kek wagies really think they’re superior when they get treated like a dog getting kicked out of a home after it tried to bite a child
All evidence points to wagies being the slave caste of society but keep believing in your own superiority, champ
That’s pretty fricking funny though and a great story to tell people.
>bro do you want to hear how I got fired from my job?
"No"
>Bro I got locked out of my job when I was fired
And he just said the whole thing there
You're just a terrible story teller
innit
Big if true.
Damn. The kind of work environment that made good games. What should I learn from this?
>development contractor
>terminated at the end of development
Yeah? That's how it generally works.
so fricking based!
judaism just keeps on winning bros!
I don't know why, but this made me laugh so hard
It's the moronic delivery, you sounded so happy
I saw this happy guy in my head genuinely saying that, he looked like these guys from uuuuhhh cyanide and happiness
what is wrong with you
QA are game devs
The people in charge of laying off workers are notoriously fricking pricks about it. It’s like an unwritten rule in business that the process of laying off workers needs to be as dickish as humanly possible. Conventional wisdom says that wagies are much more likely to try to start shit if you do it nicely.
The only people that will do it willingly enjoy cutting fat and letting useless eaters go.
>qa
>dev
>QA tester
Okay?
I mean weird but what does that have to do with Ganker?
Are you going to post about them being buttholes to the cafeteria staff as well?
youtube comment screencaps
fricking youtube comment screencaps...
>QA for NWN2
useless frickers
Even with all the bullshit, I'm still tempted to pivot to games. I want to work on something I actually care about. I don't think I've ever really enjoyed a job.
would you enjoy being a cog in current day studio games?
The only chance of you getting a stable job in game dev just means you're a cog with zero creative decisions and that's just how it is by design unless you just love working on soulless woke corpo crap.
The other side is working in small indie studios where your job is always on the line because the company has no stake and could go under at any moment but at least you have a chance at having creative input.
QA is like one step above intern. You don't really belong, you are just there.
I work in the Pharmaceutical Industry and when I quit my last job they let me keep my keycard and they never even disabled it as I used it to get in several times to go visit my friends still working there. Why is game industry so secretive?
I knew this guy who did QA testing for Obsidian and at the end of development all the testers ware invited to a parking lot and they all got a brand new sports car!
they should have fired the fricking UI/UX team. NWN'2 interface is fricking dogshit
QA tester back then (and still today) is the equivalent of finding a person on the street and having them play your game for free for hours while getting paid to do it. It was never a long term job position and only exists in a vacuum today because multibillionare corporations exist
yeah. the sort of thing you get someone you know to do for you if you're an indie, but if you're a big studio you need paper trails for.
American workers are the most cucked people alive
Why would you need to send them out before disabling their keys?
for fun.
you could also do it after they went home for the day
You don't have to wait for them to leave at all. It's not like they need working keys to exit the building.
there could be doors within the building they need the keys for during the day
maybe they had a lotta loyalty for a hired tester
It sounds needlessly cruel, but I've heard enough bullshit from QA stories that I can believe it.
The big thing is that QA always tries to use it as a stepping stone into Dev work (a lot of them are sold it on this idea), so the managers try keep them away and separate. Plus they're contractors. So you'll hear about staff parties happening, and the contracted employees aren't invited or welcome to attend. A real 2-strata life.
>QA
Literally paid to play video games but without the fun.
I played NWN2. They sucked at their jobs.
4chinkers in this thread be like
>based! muh heckin mass layoffs! more ass to eat for duh rest of us!!1
Corporations are based af workers ftl rich people need more money
the company in question was nintendo so they all deserve it DOE
The ones that stayed inside got kept on
I have self published RL games and writing projects with hundreds of thousands of collective views with glowing praise and only a single company ever bothered to reject me with a real email from a real person.
Hey, I tried to join to fix the writing crisis but they didn't want me.
Sorry, you gave Stacy in HR the ick. Do better.