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Rockstar Vienna Closes Its Doors
slashflood writes "Rockstar has unexpectedly closed its Rockstar Vienna development office, particularly known for its Grand Theft Auto Xbox conversion, laying off more than 100 employees. Confirmation has come in the form of a weblog post by Rockstar Vienna employee Jurie Horneman: 'This morning, as I came into work, I was greeted by security guards. It turned out Take-Two has closed their Rockstar Vienna office, effective immediately, 'due to the challenging environment facing the video game business and our Company during this platform transition'.'"
Does this means that Jack Thompson eventually won? That can't be good...
Here's an example of how it's fucked up: many years ago, my father worked for a company which installed photo exhibits for museums and trade shows. He was quite good at his job, and his clients were very happy with his work.
After something like ten years with the company, the owner's friend found himself out of work. The owner therefore offered his friend a job. Unfortunately, the job he got was my father's. Owner's friend had no prior experience in the business.
People get canned for shitty reasons all the time. I'm not saying that the answer to this situation are European style work laws, but don't pretend that people always get a fair shake just because this is America. Companies are run by people, and the people running the company can be stupid incompetent lazy obstreperous demanding dicks just as well as the employees.