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After 800 Blizzard Employees Lose Their Jobs, Game Workers Unite Calls for Kotick Firing - MMORPG.c
SBFord
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After 800 Blizzard Employees Lose Their Jobs, Game Workers Unite Calls for Kotick Firing - MMORPG.com News
Game Workers Unite, an organization seeking better working conditions for games industry employees, is calling for Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to be fired. #FireBobbyKotick is the social media hashtag that emerged after Tuesday's ATVI investor call and the announcement that 800 Blizzard employees had lost their jobs. "Upending 800 workers' lives while raking in millions in bonuses for you and your C-suite buddies isn't leadership, it's theft," reads the manifesto.
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The self-entitlement of these disgruntled ex-employees is shocking...well, not so much, seems like a good riddance...
At this point, the only thing that would matter is if the employees that still had jobs protested.
Your post seems to ignore the inherent inequity of bargaining power between employee and employer.
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Also in Japan CEOs often cut their salaries to keep the jobs which are often totally useless - like fax operators. That's the reason why Japanese economy stagnates for 30 years.
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The optics of this is terrible and once again Activision/Blizzard PR is trash. Firing the CEO isn't going to change anything. I have been laid off in the past when the company I worked for went through a restructuring. They were making record profits as well, but shifting focus in an ever changing landscape. If they wanted to keep up with the change then they had no choice. I didn't hold it against them because I understand how things work.
Could Activison/Blizzard handled it differently? Yes, but again, it comes down to PR. If you really want to get back at them, don't buy or play any of their games. If enough do it then that will send a message. Of course you will also be responsible for the loss of jobs when they start letting more people go as a result. Pick your poison.
I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.
This is so ridiculously wrong, I’m not sure if you’re hideously misinformed or just wilfully pig-ignorant.
Currently playing: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online, Vain Glory.
We don't live in a world in which job security is a thing. The days of pensions are long long gone. The days of working for the same Company your entire life is fleeting. It doesn't matter what industry you are in, your job is expendable. The games industry has never ben known for job security. Hell most people who started working in it didn't expect to see themselves working at the same place for more than a few years, period.
The writing has been on the wall at Blizzard for a long time. People have been leaving long before the layoffs started. They saw the writing and said, you know, if I leave before all the mass exodus begins, my chances of landing a job somewhere else goes up ten fold. If I wait for the pink slip, I will be competing with 800 other displaced workers.
Um, people chose to stay when they knew the pink slips were coming. The smart ones left while the getting was good. Those that stayed, stayed knowing full well how precarious it was. They gambled, they lost.
This isn't going to be the last round of layoffs at Blizzard. This was only the start. So all those staying on who think their job is secure when the gamers themselves are spitting on their titles every day, is a fool. They're not going to fix their woes with one mass layoff... it's likely to be a very rocky year for Blizzard if not few years. The Company has lost the gamers faith... even the very hard core die hard fans are angry. That doesn't go away with one expansion... it's going to take several.
So if job security is what you are after... find another job... most likely in an entirely different industry. Because in gaming... there is NO SUCH THING.
To quote the UK Office of National Statistics, the 2017 birth rate for new businesses in the UK was 382,000 or 13.1%. That’s a tad more than zero.
In Japan, the workforce is shrinking as the population is in decline. They cut salaries to retain workers because employees usually stay with a firm for life, mainly because they only promote from within. If they loose employees, it is incredibly difficult to attract new talent.
But ultimately, I don’t owe a debate to someone coming from a position of bad faith. If you can’t do your own research, that’s on you.
Currently playing: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online, Vain Glory.
I think the latter more likely.
Thanks for putting up some information...while his zero number is wrong the EU is still the bottom of Startup creation in the 4 major sectors of the world with America being the top and Asia second with India carrying most of that. Both the top creators of India and America having a large non-unionized sector.