Rockstar Vienna closed

yeah this happened a few weeks ago.... it sucks

what the fuck? they didn't even tell their employees?

That's pathetic...

It seems to be a common way to do business (firing people without even telling them first). You know your superiors are shits when you find out that you've been fired... in the car park.. when someone texts you or the security guards won't let you in / the doors are locked. I think I'd flip if that happened to me.

It happened to a few companies in Dundee in the last year, too.

As far as I know Rockstar has to pay those guys the regular salary for some time because labour laws in Austria are very strict and you can't just fire people over night.

They used the security guards for keeping the employees away from their computers so they wouldn't steal any assets. Stupidity :roll:

My lecturer told me that they will do this, especally to programmers, as they have the ability to completly screw up a project. So thats the only way they can fire them, purely on a "saftey of the project" reason.

Yeah it sucks hard time... I wonder what Take2 are going to do with the "alleged" new title rockstar vienna were working on.

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My lecturer told me that they will do this, especally to programmers, as they have the ability to completly screw up a project. So thats the only way they can fire them, purely on a "saftey of the project" reason.

Is it too hard to phone the people instead of just having them turn up for work only to find out they no longer have a job?

Yeah it sucks. Happened to me once. Was supposed to have a meeting with the boss to see where things were gonna go after the project was finished. Fucker never showed. Was sitting in my car in snowy parking lot for about an hour before I left to go to school.

Of course I was an independent contractor, but I still no longer had a job.

Sucky

Im glad I didnt go there. I was pratically hired there a few years ago but in the end decided not to go for a wide range of reasons.

There isn't a single reason that legitimates this sort of action, even to "protect your project from former employees". You can do that easily by having a backup server of anything that's being worked on, which is the Ubi way.

And yeah, to the best of my knowledge, Austrian laws (as with most EU countries) require some form of notice before being fired (unless you screwed up real bad).

What's this alleged title being mentioned? I thought they only worked on xbox ports...

We all know though that if you did take the job Hourence, they wouldn't have closed their doors

I second what peris said. I've never thought this kinda things happens tho, sad

yea .. shanghai is much cheaper. no wonder that take2 just opened a studio there. fuckers

Happens all the time in this industry... (or any industry)...as sad as it is