You know, every time a takeover happens some people get fired.
I am delighted to see that for a change it happens to you.
Mangers aren't the same as executives who orchestrate giant sales. Though all executives are supposed to "Manage" their company's welfare, they rarely "manage" employees that make up the disgruntled or gruntled masses; i.e. you.
Managers are not all highly paid and soulless. They have families. You on the other hand seem embittered beyond the point of reason. I pity you more than the Skype people about to start looking for work.
Well, at least I'm not designing it. There'd be at least one grue involved.
Though it definitely paved the way for PC role playing games, Zork has F-All to do with Dungeons & Dragons.
There are probably Priests and a myriad other religious leaders around at the time that would lump any RPG in as tools of the devil, but they were wrong about it all. I'm surprised they are rallying against this proposed monument to Gygax.
As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there is always a future in Computer Maintenance. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"