ArtisticallyChill

I got laid off, over the phone, again. I’m not at all shocked, just a bit disappointed that my boss didn’t have the guts to tell me in person or give me a legitimate reason he was letting me go. He claims he was worried I would get injured on the job and he couldn’t have that on his conscience or be financially responsible should I get hurt. In the time that I have worked for him, he has re-aggravated his back on more than one occasion. He claims I was costing him too much to be employed. Well, then why not bring in more customers instead of impulse shopping online for things you don’t really need? i.e. A Giant Pencil, Giant Pen, Giant Calculator, a PS3, outdated PCs and PC parts without the proper research.

In all honesty, I knew this job wouldn’t last. I wasn’t learning anything that I didn’t already know by my own experience or by something called common sense. I did more cleaning than anything and my boss lacked organizational skills that any real successful business has. He would tell me to organize one way then change his mind after I’ve busted my ass organizing things in a way that made the most sense.

But what’s done is done. I don’t regret the time I’ve put in. It was an eye opening experience and I did learn a few things about running a business and managing employees: Just do exactly the opposite of what my boss did and I’ll end up doing it better than him.

~ LoneWolf

Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer told IGN that, “There’s no explicit strategy that says we’re to ship a Halo game every year. I will say I think one Halo game every three years — which was kind of our old cadence – is probably not frequent enough.”

Phil Spencer has it all wrong. One Halo every 2-3 years just enough for fans like me. The last thing the fans want is a Halo game every year that doesn’t have the story, gameplay and the PASSION that takes 3 years of development, in house testing, and closed and public betas to get it done right.

Activision’s model of an annual release (i.e. Call of Duty) may work for them but that’s Activision – all about making money and not about the quality. Modern Warfare 2 was plagued with bugs, glitches and exploits that made the game unenjoyable for me. Now with Treyarch and other studios working on the franchise after the Infinity Ward Debacle of 2010, the next Call of Duty probably won’t receive much fanfare as when Infinity Ward was developing the games.

With Bungie no longer handling the development for future Halo titles, Microsoft could very well run this beloved franchise into the ground if they think an annual Halo game is a good idea.

~ LoneWolf

My cell phone has been glitching since before our flight from San Diego. I thought it was a memory problem because of all the text messages I sent and received during the vacation. I cleared them all out but my screen is totally frelled. It works fine every time I turn it on, but after a while it just goes blank like it’s dead or the screen freezes.

This is definitely not the best time for me to be without a working phone. My contract doesn’t end until the end of August. By then I’ll be eligible for a free upgrade but that would mean signing another 2 year contract with T-Mobile. Sadly, after about a decade of staying with the same service, I’m ready to make the jump. These last two years with T-mobile have been riddled with too many calls not going through or coming through and text messages not being sent or received quickly enough. Also, the @Home service we got never works when we need it to. Calls never get put through properly and the router itself was poorly designed to handle broadband internet. I would have to constantly reset the router every time the internet connection would drop.

So I guess I’ll have to deal with my phone dying and hope that I’ll have enough money by the end of August to make the switch.

~ LoneWolf