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Re:Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices by roc on Monday June 03, 2013 @03:40PM (#5815416)
> "This must be an enormously stressful time."

If he's already taken (a lot of) money off the table, what's there (for him) to be stressed about?

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Re:Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices by gyardley on Monday June 03, 2013 @03:54PM (#5815496)
You might be different, but I've always found firing employees and/or not meeting expectations pretty stressful, no matter what my personal financial situation.
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Re:Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices by roc on Monday June 03, 2013 @04:48PM (#5815904)
Well, I'd have had a hard time building an empire off copy/paste game development, spammy-to-fraudulent marketing schemes, encouraged social pressure/spam, an 'arcade' currency, and a pretty shameless twisting of game designs to really squeeze profit from that situation.

So I'm pretty sure the stress I'd personally feel isn't worth talking about.

Which is why I not-so-subtly reframed the assertion in terms of the person who is in that situation.

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