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NEWS: GDH Asks 50 Employees to Voluntarily Retire

It is very much the professional way of doing things in Japanese culture, just because you don't understand it, don't assume it is wrong.

I'm assuming you are actually talking about the few months of salary one gets from the company when you resign/laid-off as you can't just walk into the government employment office and recieve unemployment benefits straight after you are without work in the first place. Being laid off and resigning doesn't matter a bit as what matters is that you cannot find work after a certain period of time.

rg4619 wrote:

"Voluntarily retire" has been used in English press releases before (Sega Sammy), so I'll assume that it's the intended wording. A few years ago, Atlus also offered a similarly worded option to employees.

'Retire' has severe connotations with it surrounding American HR law, that's the reason I ask.

Voluntarily retire != taking a severance != voluntarily resigning, so I'm assuming it's just a poor/overly literal translation by someone not familiar with HR laws in English-speaking countries.

-Tofu

IIRC Ford & GM & some of the major US airlines did this early retirement to some of their employees in the past. Yeah it really sucks but would you rather have GONZO go under and not produce anything or cut 25% of it's staff and produce less? Currently I'm still hoping for an R2V DVD release in North America but I'm not holding my breath.

Der Brenten wrote:

IIRC Ford & GM & some of the major US airlines did this early retirement to some of their employees in the past. Yeah it really sucks but would you rather have GONZO go under and not produce anything or cut 25% of it's staff and produce less? Currently I'm still hoping for an R2V DVD release in North America but I'm not holding my breath.

Exactly, them and many more, so can we at least stop the "what a horrible Japanese concept" nonsense?

Selling off the financing division while they can still get money for it makes sense in the current market. What bothered me most from this, was that it seemed to indicate the animation side was a primary force in driving down financial results lately. I certainly hope that is not the case.

Man, I sure do hope GONZO dies. They've done nothing worthwhile since Gankutsuou, and Last Exile before than, and Blue Sub before that. 3 shows in over 8 years is a pretty bad record.