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LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams

Posted by timothy on from the highly-qualified-applicants dept.

Dawn Kawamoto writes "LucasArts employees held a wake Friday night, days after Darth Vader Disney slayed their studio. Taking the high road, two LucasArts employees put together a eulogy that offers a retrospective on the culture, memories and accomplishments of the team. Most of us who've witnessed a blood bath at the workplace aren't as charitable. Darth Vader Disney is expected to strike again in the next two weeks at its studio and consumer product divisions."

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  1. Disney says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We have altered the deal. Pray we do not alter it further."

    1. Re:Disney says... by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Perhaps you feel you are being treated unfairly. It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison of Mouseketeers here.

      --
      The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
    2. Re:Disney says... by Phics · · Score: 5, Funny

      Which is the broadside of a spherical space station?

      --
      There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who don't.
  2. Underperforming Division gets cut by new owners. by Osgeld · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We all love lucas arts, but there has not too much coming out of that for a while now, and its a smart decision to trim the fat, no matter how great they once were.

  3. The Dice Angle by guttentag · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For anyone who was wondering what Dice's real interest in Slashdot was, this seems to be it.

    The first link goes to a "Dice News" story.
    The second link goes to a Slashdot "Business Intelligence" story (remember, Business Intelligence is code for "someone paid us to put this up") that is a "Dice News" story by the same author as the first link.

    Obviously Dice pushed the Slashdot editors to post this as a news item. So much for editorial independence from the parent company. The disappearance of LucasArts may be Slashdot-worthy news, but when Slashdot's parent company, Dice, is writing the story it looks like they just want lots of techies to think "techies are losing their jobs, it could happen to me, I should look and see what's out there."

    1. Re:The Dice Angle by guttentag · · Score: 5, Informative

      The author of the Dice "news story" and the "business intelligence story" is also the submitter. Dawn Kawamoto is a Dice employee who has had two story "submissions" accepted in the last three days. Her other one was the H-1B visa cap story, which notes her as "First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto." She's not an accepted submitter, she's a shill for your corporate overlords, Timothy. Again, a story about people looking for jobs and how tough the market is.

      Bottom line: if you see Kawamoto's name listed as the submitter, you know it's a Dice ad right away.

      Dice: You bought slashdot. Fine. But if you're going to try to pass your content off as news, instead of sponsored content, people will leave and you will have wasted your money. If you want to post an ad, call it what it is. Deception will get you nowhere on this site. You said you weren't going to interfere with Slashdot's editorial independence. Honor your commitment.

  4. I used to work at Disney World by mark_reh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    about 30 years ago. It was the most degrading job I have ever had. Management treated employees like crap. Day one job training consisted of the boss showing you your locker and uniform, telling you to keep it clean and never take it out of the park, and do things the "Disney way" or get the hell out because there are 10 people lined up outside to take your job.

  5. Re: Darth Vader Disney by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Informative

    LEGO Indiana Jones - Traveller's Tales
    LEGO Indiana Jones 2 - Traveller's Tales
    LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy - Traveller's Tales
    Star Wars: Battlefront - Pandemic Studios
    Star Wars: Battlefront II - Pandemic Studios
    Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy - Raven Software
    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - BioWare
    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - Obsidian Entertainment
    Star Wars: Republic Commando - Lucas Arts
    Tales of Monkey Island - Telltale Games

    FTFY
    All the games by Lucas Arts in the last 10 years:
    2009: Lucidity
    2003: RTX Red Rock
    2005: Star Wars: Republic Commando
    2008: part of "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed", amongst many other games studios, same with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II in 2010

  6. Re:Yeah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a friend of mine was always telling me I should get that job, because he thought it was the most magical place on earth and it must be wonderful working there.

    Seriously the Cult of the Mouse is some scary shit. Makes Scientology look tame in comparison.

    Mountains out of mole hills.

    It isn't a cult, it isn't scary. Youre just a retard.

    Disney is an empire and they do everything they can to protect its image because that's what Disney is, its an image. An image that earns them billions of dollars a year. And Disney world? You better believe they make sure everyone follows very strict guidelines because millions of families go through those parks each year all expecting to have a magical experience that the Disney name lends itself to.

    Is mickey a cult? Don't be so melodramatic and idiotic. But youd be really stupid to think that they wont hold their employees to the same standards that's families have about Disney. A potato headed employee can much up a families vacation and ruin some childs image of it, so you better believe they expect you to behave. If you want a job where you don't have to treat the customers like they matter then go to walmart and shut up. No one forces anyone to work at Disney.