That’s right folks, with the recent news at work I feel its almost required I cut back what I can at least for now. So perhaps not the end, but both my Tabula Rasa and Warhammer online accounts have been been put on hold for now. In all reality I keep busy enough with various projects and console gaming that I don’t get to play them nearly enough to be paying monthly anyway - but I really enjoyed both of them and liked to play them when I could. I kept my subscriptions so that was possible.
As some of you know, my company decided to take a unique approach to the economic problems most businesses face these days. Instead of selecting whatever number of individuals they needed to trim to cut expenses, they decided to ’share the pain’ (their words not mine) with the entire staff - that is to say we all recieved a 20% pay reduction. To be completely fair, it was a 20% reduction in the time at work as well - I now have an extra day off of the day job. All in all a bit of a shock to the system, one which made me think I really should think about what I can do to cut back and save or pay off debts, especially when who knows when things will get better, or worse.
Now of course let me say I know I am not the first that has been impacted by the current state of the economy and sadly I doubt I will be the last but it is my blog so I can rant from time to time if I want. Do I think that this was the right choice for them to make? Well honestly I am not in the postion to make that call. I am sure it wasn’t an easy decision to make either. I can say that I don’t love it, some might have even said I overreacted at first, but looking back I guess I am happy I still have the 80% left. Some people I know have not been as lucky in recent times.
So even though I have an extra day off as I continue to fill that day with things to do - I will miss my Tabula Rasa (so close to finally making 30 and selecting my final class selection!) and Warhammer (I barely got to know you), but I have hope I will be back soon enough.
Truth be told, you probably will see me on Xbox Live from time to time on that day off (Monday)- and you can guarantee I will have a few more hours to dedicate to 360voice and GamerDNA development. Which my friends, is what I like the call the silver lining of this cloud.
As my wife said this might have been a sign, we will get through it, and who knows maybe I will end up coming out on top from this challenge in the end.
I shall copy you and finally give it a shot too, or just lure you...
Well, it’s good to hear that you’ve found the light at the end of the tunnel.
Times are hard, and in my opinion, cutting 20% of your workers’ payable time rather than dropping 20% of the workforce was an amazing call for the company to make. Not many companies would’ve made that call, and for that, I commend them.
I’m happy to hear you got to keep your job and kept the optimism high. Here’s hoping that I can even get HIRED somewhere when I return to the states next month.
Keep your head up and I hope to see you on XBL on those Mondays!
@DeejayKnight: yeah I don’t believe it would have been 20% of the workers - but its a smaller company so who knows. Either way you keep your head up too - and I hope you end up hired!
I’ll keep an eye out for you on the Monday’s I sign into live [:)]