Lakshmi.Jaerik said:
Amusing side note:
SquareEnix laid off
10% of its workforce back in 2nd quarter of this year (ostensibly during XIV's peak dev period) for downsizing and "managerial conflicts."
About the same time, Wada
posted on Twitter that the way to fix the company was to replace about 30% of employees with inexperienced recent graduates who are cheaper and less demanding. "Maybe replacing 30% of the company with folks in their early twenties will fix the remaining 70%."
A few days ago, JP Twitter
started mentioning that SE is now calling the people they laid off -- especially client and server programmers -- and desperately trying to hire them back. ("Chinese fluency is a plus!")
Most seem to be telling them to go to hell.
I see it time and time again, but haven't asked anyone about it yet. You seem like you'd know, Jaerik.
Why do Japanese people always use percentages? Seems like everything they say on a show comes along with a percentage. "I like this girl 85% more than this girl." Sometimes it doesn't even make sense, like, "This steak has 10% seasoning on it."
I've gone to Japan, studied Japanese and Japanese culture for years in college, but I just can't figure out their obsession with percentages.
Also, I guess SE is trying desperately to fix the lag issues with their system by getting those people back with them. I'm glad that people are telling them off. I mean, the least they could have done was to keep them around for launch date anyway. Pretty ignorant to lay them off before the product has even been released.