Me apply ? 
Them actually consider having me back ?
Both about as likely as me winning the jackpot on the lottery two weeks on the bounce !

Cheers - Phil

While I DO think GW would surely profit from someone like Phil I also think Phil would not want to lower himself like that.
That said do apply and have a laugh how much they (reluctantly) pay you.

Since I am a forgiving person they can have me and my "personality" for a grand a day. Plus expenses, relocation and signing bonus of course. Although I am German I shall be bold enough to say that changing their culture more towards me would be beneficial for all gamers...

Quote from: Ithoriel on 19 January 2014, 07:49:01 PM


Looking round shows and non-GW shops there are depressingly few under thirties around, compared with when I came in to the hobby. Also a lot of old fogeys, which is also depressing but only due to the realisation that I am one of those old fogeys

Well i'm 28, and i must say i experience the same thing. I'm mostly the youngest. The guys i game with are in their 40ies/50ies.

Sure i can find younger gamers if i want to play warhammer/40k/warmachine but that mostly means you find a bunch of ruleslawyers with army lists dripping with 2 year old cheddar 

I used to enjoy that game when it was al friendly like and not stuffed with uber rules.

I'm a bit curious about the x wing posse in my local game shop though, got informed there are regular x wing nights so might pop in once to see how that's  like...

  Well Techno  with your skill,  you could show them how to make a real bobby dazzler in flop cast. opps i forgot its gone as well to be replaced by  plastic (injection molded i guess to preserve the 300%+mark up) no white metal as it would reduce the profit margins. I wonder if they have been looking at Mantic nearby in Nottingham to see how its done with envy. But wait a minute its run by ex EE workers who left to go it alone,and escape the draconian yoke.******** ( cease and desist--------  we at the evil empire still make the best miniatures, honest. P.S please come in our shops,no please do, we have candy and cake).******
 

I was going to apply, but they don't have a vacancy for 'Chief in Charge of Everything and Stuff'...    Strange as it may sound, I'd actually jump at the chance to go in there and work on a management level, to try and instill some customer service into their whole company.  The only thing which would put me off is the boardroom full of shareholders, who wouldn't let me actually do what needs to be done, because some twerp with a GCSE in stapling showed them a graph with loads of fancy numbers on it.

Don't you dare!

What would we (the pricks on the Pendraken cactus) do if you defected?

I dont need 2 years to tell them how to do it better, thats so fkn easy its cheating, bring back all those "specialist" games, stop bringing out uber-codexes, bring out one ruleset (with all codexes included) that doesnt rely on "special" rules. Now that would be a start.

Quote from: Leon on 20 January 2014, 07:05:17 PM
I was going to apply, but they don't have a vacancy for 'Chief in Charge of Everything and Stuff'...    Strange as it may sound, I'd actually jump at the chance to go in there and work on a management level, to try and instill some customer service into their whole company.  The only thing which would put me off is the boardroom full of shareholders, who wouldn't let me actually do what needs to be done, because some twerp with a GCSE in stapling showed them a graph with loads of fancy numbers on it.

Leon, that is not a nice way to talk about Dave

Dave you know I am kidding right and thoroughly appreciate your last minute casting of my orders, especially for World despite the fact there were several reminders about deadlines

Dare you Colonel Grips!       

Quote from: GordonY on 19 January 2014, 03:54:24 PM
Meh all this blathering, who cares, its only GW, its not like it affects any wargamers.

Why doesn't this forum have a "Like" button 

Quote from: andys on 20 January 2014, 09:41:32 PM
Why doesn't this forum have a "Like" button 

Oh aye

Quote from: get2grips on 20 January 2014, 02:11:59 PM
Check this out, taken, verbatim, from their job specs:

Strong cultures require some getting used to.  Some people, perfectly naturally, will find ours too much for them, or not to their taste.  We accept and acknowledge this fact.  This is why we are so concerned to get a good fit between Games Workshop's personality and those of all the staff. People who don't fit or who 'play' at fitting, will be unhappy. We are pretty tolerant and you may be able to get away with it for a while, but you will still be unhappy.

Read between the lines

Jehova, how desperate for a job would you have to be to apply to a firm who wrote THAT?

Or

Jehova, how up your own **** would you have to be to apply to a firm who wrote THAT?

Stoning to commence at your leisure...

That's a company that doesn't want people to apply.

 
Astonishing !!
Cheers - Phil.

Au contraire my chaps.

This is a company that wants a particular kind of people to apply. The only kind of people where KPI driven strategies work for a prolonged time.

They need pople without higher ambition such as improving themselves and the product. People that do not question status quo ("black snow" phenomenon).
Further elaborations concerning HR and business would certainly bore you and quite swiftly move to a rant against certain business practices so familiar these days.