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My favourite is when i see people refer to ATVI as “Activision/Blizzard” or “Blizzard/Activision”

:no_good_man::no_good_man::no_good_man:

The name of the company is “Activision Blizzard”. It used to be “Activision Inc” , they changed their name to “Activision Blizzard”

Saying it with slash in between implies to me that that person thinks Activision merged with Blizzard. Which they did not - their parent companies did.

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Eek! Hope that you feel better soon.

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Disclaimer: Not to be that guy again, and with a reminder that this is my own opinion and I welcome this same response should I have a topic of discussion others may feel like this about…

Can we send the shop talk elsewhere? I have a lot of friends and a significant other in the ATVI side and I’m already worried sick about it.

Thanks if can. :slight_smile:

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I fully understand how you feel Alvraen, and I apologize in advance, but there is one thing I really do need to get off my chest about this topic specifically.

It is my deepest hope that in the unknown details of what is going to happen, the words attrition and large severance packages are spread wide and far for these poor souls that put their heart and soul into their jobs, day in and day out.

Sorry, I just needed to get that out.

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Week in the hospital and I come home to a dead battery in my truck. If it ain’t one thing…

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Edit it out…and sent

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I’ve been working for the world’s largest corporation for about five years now. I’ve been through several “restructurings”. I’ve actually receive two Severance packages. Guess I was lucky enough? To find other positions within the company. I’ve watched employees of 25 years or more be treated like crap. Thrown to the Wayside. All that knowledge and all that hard work for nothing. Now I’m in the midst of yet another restructuring. I go in today to a new position again. Where as my position change just two months ago. I’m told I’m still Specialists. We’ll see. In the past 2 months on a biweekly paycheck I’ve lost 10 hours overtime + 10 hours real time. Making the raise I got with the new position moot. I literally do not know what I’m walking into today. It was supposed to start yesterday but I called out because it was my birthday. With all the stress I forgot to request it off.

Corporate America sucks. They literally only care about the bottom line. I’ve seen full-time employees serve the company for years and have Irreplaceable knowledge be replaced with two part-timers. Just to save money. I talked to a lot attendant the other day that is getting more hours than me. So I have a little insight on what they’re going through. Maybe even more.

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Literally I live in fear every day of losing my job. Yes I need to find another one. But with my health issues and the other things, it’s not as easy as people think. The other day it literally took me 4 hours to get out of bed. Finding a new job is not as easy as people think. And honestly my age plays against me. I found that out 5 years ago when I got laid off. I’m literally terrified to go into work today. Corporate America does not care about the working man or woman. My opinion is these people need to take their packages and quickly find employment elsewhere. Perhaps outside of their industry.

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I know how you feel T-Wulf :frowning:

I left the corporate world because I just couldn’t stand how it was run. As a senior manager, I did my best to show my employees that I cared. But it was a loosing battle because as hard as I tried, the company couldn’t have cared less about their employees. It was all about the :moneybag:

I chose to stay home with my kids, playing an unconventional roll of stay-at-home dad. When people ask me what I do and I tell them, they seem lost for how to follow up. The thought of getting back out there and “applying” to a job is scary. I worked at my last job for 13 years and have been home with my kids for 3-4…that means I haven’t even job hunted in like 17 years! I don’t even know how to anymore! Not to mention that there’s no way I want to go back to the corporate world either.

Which leaves me with a daunting task of figuring out what I want to do next. I’m middle-aged…the idea of going back to school to pick a new career path and be that “old-dude” in class (yes, I’m sure kids don’t say “dude” anymore…)

But we’re at the point where we need the second income.

You will get zero arguments from me that finding a new job is anything but easy. Here’s hoping that whatever news you get today, leads to something better for you no matter what or where it is. Or, you know, Canada might be cold, but we could hang out and eat those wings together :wink: Just say’n!

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Twulf and Perl exactly why I left the business world.

Summed it up perfectly

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:gift_heart:

My son is,was, a stay at home dad. A roll a lot harder than people think.

My daughter in law is the one who always talks me down. I’ve held 8 positions in 5 years. 3 of them supervisory. And one specialist.

I believe I shared that story? I forget things a lot now. How the corporation took three positions that required 5 people and made it one position with three people. I’m one of them.

I literally don’t know what I’m going to do today. The other two not work 4 a.m. to 12 p.m. I work 3 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. but as far as I know my job isn’t going to need to be done during those hours.

Regardless my daughter-in-law was the one who always kept me grounded. She works for one of the largest insurance companies in the world. One day she went to work and was told that her entire department has been eliminated and that she no longer has a job. This happened about two weeks ago. They weren’t even offered positions within the corporation. They were given an 18 weeks severance package and told good luck. Did I mention that she’s pregnant. Not to be cruel but it’s reality. I’m old. Few places are going to hire her being pregnant knowing that she’s going to be out of work for 6 weeks in a few months. By the way yes there’s another wolf pup on the way.

So my son is now trying to find employment but he’s been out of the workforce for a while. Being a stay-at-home dad.

Like I said I have a little insight as to what these people are going through. I can’t be unemployed again. It took me six months to find this. And it ate up my life savings. I’m old and I’m useless and no one wants me.

I wish these people nothing but the best. But I recommend they stay away from corporations. They’re heartless.

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Doc was able to squeeze me in. Nurse got my vitals and sent me across the hall for xrays.

I will be very surprised if they show any fractures but who knows. I am happy we ruling things out preemptively though. All I know is it hurts and I want it to stop hurting haha.

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Oh My! I just found out I am at trust level 3. I logged onto the forums to read during my lunch and found a new one had popped up called the Lounge. Not sure how that happened, I wasn’t even trying.:star_struck::partying_face:

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Grats! Please gif responsibly :nerd_face:

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I will fess up. I do not know how to gif and probably never will.:confounded:

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So an enflamed tendon it is with signs of calcium deposits. Physical therapy has been ordered

As of now he told me to stack two tylonol and two Aleve. He said he could give me a Cortisone shot to the tendon but that just masks the symptoms. And it is expensive. He would rather try this course of action and if the physical therapist feels it is called for then do it. Basically, he does not want to have to give me a shot every 90 days and not fix, possibly much less expensive way, the cause of the issue.

Hopefully the Aleve and Tylonol take the edge off.

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Happy belated birthday! Hope that today ends up being not as stressful for you.

:birthday:

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Hope the physical therapy helps. I understand the preference to not mask symptoms (with the exception of enough pain relief to sleep).

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Watch out with too many over the counter pain meds. Most of them can cause bleeding. Knew someone that took too much Motrin and got messed up.

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Any medicine you take too much of will cause problems. One of the reasons pharma companies keep the over-the-counter meds such low doses is to make it difficult to overdose, intentional and unintentional.
Before I left the hospital I saw a patient who ate a whole bottles worth of Advil. One of the nurses said that all it will do is cause severe abdominal pain