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Couldn't possibly be a better time to be laid off. Free money, severance package, AND the pick of the litter as to what job you want! Surely anyone who was hire
by tomphoolery 13y ago
Couldn't possibly be a better time to be laid off. Free money, severance package, AND the pick of the litter as to what job you want! Surely anyone who was hired at Zynga would be at least capable of most programming jobs in the country. The world is theirs.
That is, unless Mark Pincus decides to fuck them over. There's always that aspect. (see Tribe.net)
- hkmurakami 13y agoI googled around for a good 10 minutes and read a few TC articles and Pincus' wikipedia article and couldn't figure out what had happened regarding tribe.net (other than an issuing a TRO to a former colleague in 2009). Would you care to elaborate?
- tomphoolery 13y agoJust basically let it die even though there were paying customers. I remember people paying for premium service feeling pretty shitty when the people who ran Tribe couldn't even give a shit to keep the site up for more than a few hours. Tribe died right around the time Zynga's games like FarmVille exploded. It just seemed like he didn't really care about the people who made Tribe a good place to hang out and who kept the site going, and only cared about expanding his own personal portfolio with a game that most people frankly found annoying, especially those who didn't play it. He didn't do anything all that shitty, but it was enough for me to recognize him as someone who doesn't care about the community-building aspect as much as the "making money" aspect. Because of that, when he does things like this, I don't feel all that surprised.
- spot 13y agoi don't know but i'll bet it has something to do with Utah Street Networks.
- MrZod 13y agocheck this out, Pincus' profile: http://people.tribe.net/markpincus http://people.tribe.net/markpincus