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Games companies crashing
Oct. 20th, 2004 10:05 amAn observation about games companies.
At the last company I worked for, the kettle broke, so they bought a new one. The old one was a nice fast boiling cordless kettle. The replacement was a humungous great big urn which took forever to boil, and was impossible to fill. Shortly after that, the company went down the tubes. Now, we could blame the MD's lieing about how many people were working on a project, or his overenthusiasm to sign deals that could not make a profit, but we all knew it was the kettle.
One of my colleagues went for an interview with another large games company. He decided to turn it down on the basis that they too had one of these kettles. Recently, they too have been severely struggling, and have laid off most of their staff. I asked another person about this. He didn't have any kettle stories, but did say that the fridge started to dominate the company.
Can all the troubles of all defunct games companies be put down to the wrong sort of kitchen electrical appliances?
At the last company I worked for, the kettle broke, so they bought a new one. The old one was a nice fast boiling cordless kettle. The replacement was a humungous great big urn which took forever to boil, and was impossible to fill. Shortly after that, the company went down the tubes. Now, we could blame the MD's lieing about how many people were working on a project, or his overenthusiasm to sign deals that could not make a profit, but we all knew it was the kettle.
One of my colleagues went for an interview with another large games company. He decided to turn it down on the basis that they too had one of these kettles. Recently, they too have been severely struggling, and have laid off most of their staff. I asked another person about this. He didn't have any kettle stories, but did say that the fridge started to dominate the company.
Can all the troubles of all defunct games companies be put down to the wrong sort of kitchen electrical appliances?
