While Zynga was busy laying off 520 employees without warning yesterday, including most of his officemates, Zynga's newly hired VP of mobile ad strategy Timothy Price piped up on Facebook to assure his friends that he wasn't one of 18 percent.

More bad news for everyone's least favorite social gaming company: the FarmVille empire's former prince is AWOL, right on the heels of his hyped new release.