SWTOR’s Tait Watson Leaving Bioware 6r6y2q

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Tait Watson just informed the community that she is leaving Bioware at end of this month and moving to California. Tait started out as a Social Media Representative back when the game was first lunched, and is now ending his Career in BioWare as Assistant official forums: 1ka27

Original source: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9236031#edit9236031

Hey everyone,

There have been two know they will come up:

  1. I haven’t been fired, and I haven’t been laid off.
  2. I am leaving BioWare to move to California.

Okay, that out of the way, moving on.

“What are you doing now, Tait?”

An excellent question, me. For now, nothing I can disclose career-wise, but if you follow me on Twitter, I’m sure you’ll see soon (It’s @pariahloki. Shameless plug). However, I am leaving Austin and moving to Maybe we’ll cross paths again someday, and I can tell you all about it over some tacos.

People often ask me what I do, and when I days – but the sheer diversity of the things I do behind the scenes is hard to explain. That said, one thing has remained consist between the job titles (three!) I have worn here: advocating for players on a daily basis.

For now, however, I just want to say that, even though there have been rough times, I have never once dreaded coming into work. Not one time in the time I’ve worked here, and a huge part of that is all of you. Yes, you. If you have somehow come across these words on the internet, I am talking to you. You are the beating heart that keeps this vibrant and unabashedly ionate people come into work and strive to show you just how important you are to us.

And I will miss that the most.

-Tait.

*Okay, but, for real. There is this restaurant/bar in San Diego that has the best fish tacos I’ve ever had and I can’t what it is called. Send help. It’s on 3rd, 4th, or 5th within a few blocks of Market. I think it had a small stage in it? I went during SDCC one year.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9236069#post9236069

In honor of Tait leaving, let me share with you my favorite Tait story from his time here. It’s the time that we convinced Tait we were letting him go when we were actually hiring him.

When Tait got hired into his current role, he was hired on as a contractor with the intent we would convert him to be a full-time EA employee in the future. Well when we got approval to “flip” him to full-time, me and Keith (my boss) decided to have a little bit of fun with him.

We brought him into a room and we made sure to both seem pretty somber as we pulled him in. We had to ensure he was on edge thinking something bad was happening. Keith starts the meeting by going into this whole speech about how things are ended this speech with three words, “you’ve been impacted.”

Now, this is the part where I was supposed to jump in and be like “surprise, your hired!” However, I was concentrating so hard on not laughing that I didn’t react as fast as I was supposed to. This meant poor Tait was sitting there for like 20 seconds in a dead silent room thinking he just got let go.

Then I handed the folder with his paperwork to him and said “welcome to the team.” Tait reacted by turning red and saying lots of four letter words at us while laughing. It was pretty awesome.

TLDR – That one time we convinced Tait we were letting him go while we were hiring him and it was great.

-eric