Is Your Employer Playing the Layoff Game? Now You Can, Too!

Layoff game makes unemployment fun

Are you one of the millions of Americans who got laid off in the last year? Do you have a lot of free time that you don’t know how to use? Play the layoff game!

If you are lucky enough to be at work right now, do not click on this: http://tiltfactor.org/layoff/. It’s addictive.

The sad truth

Unemployment is at a 26-year high. More people are getting laid off every day. And the folks at Tiltfactor Lab decided that everyone should be able to join in the layoff fun, even if they don’t have employees. So they made it into a game.

It works like “Bejeweled” and other puzzle games. If you put three workers of the same type in a row, they get laid off and you save the company money.

Digital personalities

Perhaps when you read news stories about layoffs those people are just numbers. However, that isn’t the case with the layoff game. There are bios of each worker that tell you about their life and personality. It doesn’t say whether the characters have any outstanding payday loans.

Take Val, for instance. He doesn’t have custody of his kids and works three nights a week as a bartender in addition to his full-time job in plastics to pay for child care. But if you lay him off it saves the company millions!

Those without humor need not apply

Be ready for some disturbing facts if you play the layoff game. A ticker scrolls across the bottom of the screen that shares statistics about things such as how much money corporate executives spend on two-day retreats. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Is Your Employer Playing the Layoff Game? Now You Can, Too!"