Over the course of two months the Galway based Zenimax Online Studios (The Elder Scrolls Online) has let as many as 300 employees go, The Connacht Tribune reports.
These are workers who were hired on short-term contracts, but still they were let go before the contracts ran out. 200 of the contracts were terminated only three weeks in, and that included one week of training.
According to an employee the newspaper has spoken with, he was hired along with 200 others in March - all on six months contracts. They have now all been let go.
"In April, the company said it wanted 200 more workers. They went through a week of training, worked for two weeks and were let go. These would have been people taken in on two to six-week contracts."
"Four weeks ago, another 50 were let go, and over the last few days, another 20 or 30."
The employee is also complaining about how these workers got treated by the company: "It's a disgrace how workers were treated. If they showed up at 10.30pm for the night shift, they were being told to go home at 11pm, that their jobs were gone," he told the newspaper.
We can of course only speculate as to wether or not this has had anything to do with the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online, but it sure looks like someone miscalculated the need for staff at the studio.