Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMO Gamers to the Next Level!

In what seems to be normal behavior for large gaming companies these days, Mythic Entertainment quietly laid off dozens of employees earlier this week. Affecting mainly play testers, quality assurance, and customer service representatives, these cuts seem to be just part of a much larger plan at EA.

The company of course gave no offical reasons for dismisals, but fortunately for you the staff at Ten Ton Turnip managed to located a few of the displaced workers and asked them their thoughts on the matter. We were shocked when the truth behind these devestating cutbacks came into light.

"Why'd they let us go?" one bold employee began, "Oh that is easy, we're gamers.  That's right, when they found out that we actually PLAY video games in our free time, they let us go. Nobody wants to hire gamers anymore."  The terminated employees then began to list off games such as World of Warcraft, Fallout 3 and a dozen other top sellers you'd see next to any gamer's PC. With a grimace of disdain the employee continued, "Bill here just got canned for Little Big Planet.  Hell that's barely even a game. And poor Mary just plays Mario Galaxy with her kids for crying out loud. Gamers are SUPPOSED to play games! This blacklisting is ridiculous!"

In an attempt to verify facts or get an official word on the situation, we decided to track down one of the higher-ups, Mr. Jark Macobs.

"Of course it's regrettable," he stated with no remorse, "because we consider this a family and you don't leave the family you understand?! The family leaves YOU. Capish?  We can't have our employees actually playing games in their off time, because it leads to entertainment and fun.  We actually caught someone playing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning in the office.  He swore he was playtesting it, but I know better."

With such a strong anti-gaming stance, how do they decide who to hire?  "We look for accounting and finance backgrounds," he states. "I think we have a few Environmental Engineers and the guy over in QA actually used to manage a Hooters."  We here at Ten Ton Turnip can only hope for the best for those displaced employees and we wish them well in their new endevours.