Man, I'm so sad to hear about this. Vigil had such an incredible density of talent. Best of luck on the hunt to everyone, though based on this turnout on PC, seems you may not need it ;)

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, THQ LAYOFFS!

Good luck everyone with landing on your feet. I know there are a lot of good artists at those studios who should be able to get something new soon. Be positive! ;)
Go for a drink...
Finish that game you haven't had time for...
Go fishing, camping, road trip to Vegas!
Sleep in! Stay up late!
and then get back to work!

I still don't get why laying off significant stock raises stock prices.

Don't shareholders know the product will suffer? And a suffering product leads to lagging sales?

Originally Posted by JacqueChoi

I still don't get why laying off significant stock raises stock prices.

Don't shareholders know the product will suffer? And a suffering product leads to lagging sales?

This hasn't affected THQ's stock price at all significantly, although last I checked it was 59c the day of the layoffs and it's 54c at the moment.

It has been bouncing around between 50-60c for about 2 months and has been below since the uDraw announcement in December or whenever that was and has not moved much since:

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:THQI

It is sad when people are let go but I wanted to let everyone know about opportunities at Kin Valley, kinvalley.com. We are hiring designer and Flash developers. Send resumes to careers(at)kinvalley.com or contact me.

Zuzana
Kin Valley Inc.
Project manager

Originally Posted by JacqueChoi

I still don't get why laying off significant stock raises stock prices.

Don't shareholders know the product will suffer? And a suffering product leads to lagging sales?

THQ is in biiig trouble. Me thinks they can't pay for the stock. Some podcasters (Giant Bomb) speculate they may not even exist (THQ) next year.

So I hear the contractors that lost their jobs at Vigil aren't allowed to be at the job fair?

what's up with that?

Originally Posted by skankerzero

So I hear the contractors that lost their jobs at Vigil aren't allowed to be at the job fair?

what's up with that?

Hey how can it be a jobs fair if it isn't being fair?
That does seem odd. I would think their contributions are just as valid to the game and team as us full time employee's were.

Originally Posted by skankerzero

So I hear the contractors that lost their jobs at Vigil aren't allowed to be at the job fair?

what's up with that?

Possibly legal reasons around keeping contractors separate from employees?

Independent contractors are hired for a project and if they have a quasi-permanent relationship they could be considered employees.

Originally Posted by skankerzero

So I hear the contractors that lost their jobs at Vigil aren't allowed to be at the job fair?

what's up with that?

How about hosting a virtual one here and make some noise about it to bring people over who might not have seen what's going on here?

Between Relic, Vigil, Zipper and all the others makes a ton of qualified people. Judging by the number of we're hiring posts in this thread it sounds like they should all be able to find work.

Maybe one of the mods can make a sticky, have people post a representative piece & some info and links. The community will make sure it gets to the right people where there's hiring going on.

edit*

Kind of like the Job census thread but the other way around.

Originally Posted by okkun

Maybe one of the mods can make a sticky, have people post a representative piece & some info and links. The community will make sure it gets to the right people where there's hiring going on.

While this is a nice sentiment there is a "paid jobs" section in polycount. I don't know if you need a new sticky to fill the same function.

Except it's only employers posting in the paid jobs and the other section is named freelance jobs.

As a follow up, what was the result of the career fair on the 5th? Did anyone get a contract?

this really shocks me. Good luck to all the affected.

Originally Posted by katana

As a follow up, what was the result of the career fair on the 5th? Did anyone get a contract?

They had a career fair for the Relic people on the 10th. I was contacted by one company but nothing has come of it so far. The woman from Piranha Games was very nice but they can afford to be choosy. In fact all of them can afford to be that way in an employer's market, that is on top of the tendency of video game companies to slowly weigh things out. The only problem is that animation houses and such will snap you up for a song while the video game companies are making up their mind, even if they are seriously thinking about hiring you. I personally can't wait for them considering the cost of living in the Vancouver area and the fear of being unemployed...

I guess just because they had a job fair for us doesn't mean it's only the people who were laid off that are applying for these open positions.. there's a lot of competition out there, even amongst ourselves now. I mean, it's cool that they did that, and I'm sure it helped out some people, but definitely not all. I'm glad to hear they had one for Relic as well as Vigil at least.

I'm not sure how long it typically takes people to get back to you, gotta admit though, it's not really fun to find that out when you're facing unemployment- like theconceptartist said.