As my site took off I realized that this wasn't going to be an indefinite situation. I chose pr0n over EQII Dev because 1. It pays better; 2. I don't have to deal with being micromanaged (or managed at all); 3. After the management changed, I hated my job anyway and 4. EQII was going nowhere (and I HATED San Diego to boot). I only accepted the job at SOE because I loved my work in the first place; I took a serious pay cut from working in IT to work there as a fucking forum moderator. I loved it though...I MISS the damn forums sometimes...the haiku, oh my! But the work environment just became the utter suck so /endjob.
Wanna know what turned me off about SOE? Well, first off I watched a girl with NO experience at all get promoted over me because she waggled her tits at her boss. I'm not an office flirt whatsoever and tend to keep to myself, so I totally lost on that front because I wasn't willing to go the hoebag omg-let-me-sit-on-ur-lap route. I was more like "gtf out of my cube and let me work in peace, you fag" so, no promotions for me. Strike one. Strike two was the fact that executive staff at SOE just kept making idiotic decisions and leaving Community Relations to clean up the mess. They outright lied to the customer base on several occasions and made me, who would have preferred to say "yeah we lied, our bad", make up excuses and bullshit that I knew the customer base wouldn't buy. I HATED that. Strike three was the management change. I do not refer to the promotion of Gallenite - that dude was seriously one of my favorite people at the entire company and a total badass to work with - or really to Blackguard either because he busted his ass and really loved the game. Largely it was the "we want more but will give you less to do it with" atmosphere, the 65-fucking-page-long manual on how to be a good Rep written by Raph Koster, having meetings in order to schedule meetings (wtf??) and Brenlo constantly micromanaging everything once he got promoted. Prior to that, I liked him just fine and as a person I still do; I just would never want to work under him again because he wants in on everything and I hate that. All this, coupled with the fact that the job was completely dead-end unless I wanted to flash some titty or work 18 hour days + in unpaid overtime in order to kiss someone's ass hard enough that they would move me onto a different team pretty much killed the magic for me. I still have a good view of the company but yeah...I was just done with it. 2 years with no movement at all? Fuck that. If I have to jiggle my tits in order to get somewhere then I'll do that on my own time where I'll get paid more to do it. Pure logic, that.[/b]
