Activision Blizzard Cuts Coming [Jul 17, 2008, 10:09 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Activision Blizzard to suffer job cuts on mcvuk.com has word that the merger
of Activision and Blizzard will lead to an "all-star team" of developers, but
that "overlaps" will result in "redundancies," meaning that some people are
going to lose their jobs: Here are quotes pulled from their
Thomas
Tippl interview:
“With every merger, there is overlap and redundancy, and so the same will be true here. Of course we’re going to go to our customers with one face. We don’t need two sales forces,” he explained.
“Having said that, if you look at our industry, it’s rapidly growing – last year it grew 30 per cent. So over time I expect our headcount to grow.”
“But in the short term we will exterminate some of our overlap through redundancy – but we will treat people respectfully.”
“We will try to put the best team together – the all-star team. We’ll update both companies’ skill and experience levels and become a formidable company,” he added.
BOB SLYDELL
Here's a peculiar one. Milton Waddams.
DOM
Who's he?
BOB
You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
DOM
Oh.
BOB SLYDELL
We can't find a record of him being a current employee here.
BOB PORTER
I looked into it more deeply and I found what happened was he got layed off about five years ago and no one ever told him about it. But through a glitch in Payroll, he still gets a paycheck. I went ahead and fixed the glitch.
BILL
Great.
DOM
So, um, Milton has been let go.
BOB SLYDELL
Just a second there, Professor. We, uh, we fixed the glitch. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore. So it'll just work itself out naturally.
Here's a peculiar one. Milton Waddams.
DOM
Who's he?
BOB
You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
DOM
Oh.
BOB SLYDELL
We can't find a record of him being a current employee here.
BOB PORTER
I looked into it more deeply and I found what happened was he got layed off about five years ago and no one ever told him about it. But through a glitch in Payroll, he still gets a paycheck. I went ahead and fixed the glitch.
BILL
Great.
DOM
So, um, Milton has been let go.
BOB SLYDELL
Just a second there, Professor. We, uh, we fixed the glitch. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore. So it'll just work itself out naturally.
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