{"id":86,"date":"2007-12-13T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T04:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-12-13T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T04:33:01","slug":"auran-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/auran-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Auran Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just spoke to some ex-colleagues of mine from Auran. Auran Developments (who hires the dev team) has just gone into liquidation and has shut up shop. The guys don&#8217;t get paid this week, they don&#8217;t get their holidays paid out, and they don&#8217;t get redundancy packages.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really sorry to hear this, and my thoughts go out to all the guys, particularly so close to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs some people are reporting, there is <strong>a chance<\/strong> that the guys will get paid out, but if so it won&#8217;t happen for at least a few months once the liquidation is sorted. The fact is that none of them are getting a dime for the time being (and most likely not before Christmas).<\/p>\n<p>For more info visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplace.gov.au\/workplace\/Programmes\/EmployeeEntitlements\/GEERSV2\/\">GEERS<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been given the website of a refugee group for all the ex-employee&#8217;s with info on how the liquidation etc is going. Email me <a href=\"mailto:alistair@doolwind.com\">directly<\/a> if you are an ex-employee and want this info.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 3:<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been contacted by a number of game companies that are offering positions for anyone affected by the liquidation.\u00a0 If you are looking for work, again please contact me <a href=\"mailto:alistair@doolwind.com\">directly<\/a> and I&#8217;ll get you in contact with their reps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 4:<br \/>\n<\/strong>I&#8217;ve been asked to reiterate that the only company involved in this liquidation is <em>Auran Developments<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>MyVirtualHome<\/em> (who have nothing to do with Auran anymore) are unaffected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just spoke to some ex-colleagues of mine from Auran. Auran Developments (who hires the dev team) has just gone into liquidation and has shut up shop. The guys don&#8217;t get paid this week, they don&#8217;t get their holidays paid out, and they don&#8217;t get redundancy packages. I&#8217;m really sorry to hear this, and my thoughts <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/auran-is-dead\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-development","tag-auran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgEc5-1o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doolwind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}