Title: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Brolan on November 30, 2006, 07:57:12 PM http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/11/kutaragi_removed_from_job_in_s.php (http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/11/kutaragi_removed_from_job_in_s.php)
I guess that's what happens when you screw up the PS3 launch... Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Viin on November 30, 2006, 08:01:28 PM Yah, I'm sure the multi-million dollar severance package was hard to take.
Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: schild on November 30, 2006, 08:03:13 PM This can only be good for the games division.
Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Trippy on November 30, 2006, 08:11:23 PM I guess that's what happens when you screw up the PS3 launch... Among other things. News going around last week was that Kutaragi ignored plees from publishers who wanted to setup exclusive arrangements with Sony thereby giving Microsoft a chance to make deals with them:http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162084.html Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: NiX on November 30, 2006, 11:05:41 PM Yah, I'm sure the multi-million dollar severance package was hard to take. From what I can tell he wasn't fired. They just took away his day to day control and made him something else. Unless they give severance packages for stuff like that.Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Yoru on December 01, 2006, 01:17:59 AM Yah, I'm sure the multi-million dollar severance package was hard to take. From what I can tell he wasn't fired. They just took away his day to day control and made him something else. Unless they give severance packages for stuff like that.Outright firing him would've been serious trouble for their stock, so he sort of gets a 'working retirement'. He's being essentially made a figurehead until they can take him behind the barn without anyone noticing. Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Yegolev on December 01, 2006, 07:30:38 AM Executives of large corporations are hardly ever fired. They are just shuffled out of the line of power. This can include making them consultants and paying them to do nothing from their company-paid home office.
Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Alkiera on December 01, 2006, 12:42:38 PM Executives of large corporations are hardly ever fired. They are just shuffled out of the line of power. This can include making them consultants and paying them to do nothing from their company-paid home office. How do you get a job like that? "Here, take this money, just never ever actually show up in our office, or communicate with anyone we employ ever again!" Dream Job. -- Alkiera Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Nija on December 01, 2006, 12:46:06 PM He should fall on a sword.
Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: geldonyetich on December 01, 2006, 01:32:32 PM According to the Wikipedia, his "demotion" has had him promoted to the head of the SCEI, Sony's main computer entertainment division. That's probably reasonably appropriate seeing how he apparently was the one who pushed Sony in the direction of making a little device known as the Playstation in the first place.
As for how he managed to land himself access to the magical money teat, it apparently had something to do with him being an A++ student (which probably involved permanent scarring, knowing the Japanese education system) and having enough electrical knowhow to end up participating in groundbreaking work in LCDs and Digital Camera technology. Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Yegolev on December 01, 2006, 01:37:09 PM Executives of large corporations are hardly ever fired. They are just shuffled out of the line of power. This can include making them consultants and paying them to do nothing from their company-paid home office. How do you get a job like that? "Here, take this money, just never ever actually show up in our office, or communicate with anyone we employ ever again!" Dream Job. -- Alkiera I'll just say that you and I are both in the wrong line of work. Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Viin on December 01, 2006, 02:10:05 PM Most techies don't end up in Executive level positions. Which is why I'm now in Product Development/Marketing. Hurray.
Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Nija on December 01, 2006, 03:57:12 PM Most techies don't end up in Executive level positions. Which is why I'm now in Product Development/Marketing. Hurray. Yes, I wear many hats now too. None of them are of the 'money'-type, sadly. Title: Re: Kutaragi removed from job in Sony PlayStation management shakeup Post by: Yegolev on December 05, 2006, 07:59:18 AM The key, if you ask me, is to make self-promotion your job, or career even. The CIO of my company is now a VP, and he started off as an electrical engineer. I think he didn't spend a whole lot of time doing grunt work, though. If you don't like taking credit for the work of others and trying really hard to make yourself look good rather than doing a good job, you probably won't ever be in upper management.
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