Wikia meltdown: layoffs, ...the numbers don't look promising either.... Options

[the fieryangel]

Or so sez Valleywag :

A source who has seen Wikia's numbers says the company is experiencing "a hemorrhaging of cash circa 1999" — losses, in other words, like the first generation of dotcoms.

Everybody's doing layoffs these days, but venture capital is becoming scarce....It's probably not a good sign.

Jimbo really needs to have some professional stills done by a good photographer and ditch these candid shots. The one on this article is particularly bad.

[cyofee]

Looks like another source is rapidly descending from reliable to unreliable.

[UseOnceAndDestroy]

Looks like another source is rapidly descending from reliable to unreliable.

Yep - and undermining the source looks like a fairly desperate defence from ol' Jimbo.

The best Wikia can do is try to reduce the story to dickering about the number that has been sacked - and hope that's interpreted as "everything's all right, then".

In the absence of some inside information, we don't know the actual number. The rebuttal on the Reg story is carefully worded on this point - "recently let go less than 10% of its salaried employees". Interesting adjective they have there. So...err...that's 4 salaried, and a bunch of contractors? How are the Polish guys employed?

No one's in a hurry to update to http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Staff, unsurprisingly.

[GlassBeadGame]

"recently let go less than 10% of its salaried employees"

Yep, anyone who ever dealt with Wikipedians would smell that weasel word a mile away.

[Milton Roe]

"recently let go less than 10% of its salaried employees"

Yep, anyone who ever dealt with Wikipedians would smell that weasel word a mile away.

Anyone who has dealt with corporate lawyers. A lie not by the actual statement, but rather by its implication and misdirection. Every time.

If you punch a timeclock, or you're any kind of consultant, you're not a salaried employee.

[anthony]

"recently let go less than 10% of its salaried employees"

Yep, anyone who ever dealt with Wikipedians would smell that weasel word a mile away.

Anyone who has dealt with corporate lawyers. A lie not by the actual statement, but rather by its implication and misdirection. Every time.

If you punch a timeclock, or you're any kind of consultant, you're not a salaried employee.

"Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally."

[GlassBeadGame]

"Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally."