On Jan 23, 12:06 pm, "Vorlonagent"  wrote:
> Wendy's move reminds me that I have one of those coming up myself.  I just
> got hired by Electronic Arts.  It's temp work but if I keep alert I can
> finagle a permenent position out of it.  Since EA doesn't have an office in
> Fresno, I'm moving to the Bay, specifically somewhere in or around Redwood
> City.  (now I just need to figure out exactly where I'm moving to...)
>
> My title is "World Building Coordinator".  I'm working on
Ultima Online.  EA
> is giving it a major facelift and my unit's primary job is to come in behind
> the program that is updating the landscape and fix things the program didn't
> do quite right.  My job is to manage the unit, which means keeping tabs on
> productivity, making sure the unit works on what it's supposed to be working
> on, finding alternate work if the world-editing tool is down and doing my
> fair share of running around screaming for any crisis du jour.
>
> I start work the day after Super Sunday, i.e. Feb 5th.  I sign up with a
> temp agency and immidiately get loaned out to EA.  This actually *reduces*
> the red tape involved in hiring me, which is mildly frightening.  If I get
> hired permenently, EA would normally have to pay a fee to the temp agency,
> but since they found me the fee would get waived.
>

See if you can get them to buy out Vivendi's Sierra unit, and resurrect
B5 Into the Fire, will ya?
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