Layoffs Suck

This is too bad. It appears that Sandblast Games (formerly Cranky Pants) will be closing after massive layoffs. Evil Dead: Regeneration was my second project as a tester. The game was fun if a bit repetitive. I haven’t seen much from them since, which might explain their situation, but it still sucks.

I was talking to one of my coworkers (a test lead) about this and he commented on how it seems like there are always news stories about massive layoffs at developers but that he feels safe in QA because that thing doesn’t seem to happen to us. Maybe it does happen and we don’t hear about it as much, but since I’ve moved beyond the level of a temp three years ago, I have yet to worry about my job security. I guess I should consider myself lucky.