Employees leaving Blizzard due to RTO

People don’t leave their jobs without somewhere to go. They’re getting hired by companies whose HR policies aren’t bat-guano insane.

RTO policies are costing a lot of old, stodgy, paternalistic companies a lot of talent, and the people leaving are finding jobs no problem.

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I had RTO a while ago. Although it’s still somewhat hybrid. I wouldn’t walk away from a good job because of this, (even though I agree with them).

That is one of the sort of “invasive” things that comes with work from home. You are sort of never off work. Even on vacation. I planned my day to ensure I could work with HQ, and with any customers in various time zones. So an average day was 6am to 9am. Take a break for an hour or so. Work through til dinner. Break. Finish off anything else with HQ who was 3 hours behind me going on 9pm. They often left around 6pm their time. It was crazy. I was home, but working 12+ hours a day. Yes I did laundry, put on the crock pot, and fed cats, but I also had to be ultra responsive, get everything done, and be in all my meetings.

Even vacation was like that. They gave me a Blackberry so they could get me any time of day and anywhere in the country. So, I went to an off the grid cabin up in the mountains and they could only get me for about 2 hours a day when I went into town! Heh. Yes, I allowed it even though it was my vacation. It was kind of the price for the freedom I had.

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source: voices in my head

I would have no choice, I don’t live in the same state as my office. If they finally decided to end WFH, I would have to start looking for a new job.

It’s hilarious to me that people still use COVID as an excuse. It wasn’t a big deal, never was.

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Nah I’m not about that life. If it’s 5 o’clock and nothing is planned in the evening, it waits for the next business day. The only thing done after hours is the occasional release.

Soon the American Dollar wont be worth anything

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That’s why I’ve stocked up on beanie babies

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Pretty sure the people who had to bury a loved one would disagree.

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I hope you have their tags in those little plastic heart protectors. You need to protect your investment

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Ok, then the flu, common, cold and literally almost anything else is a big deal too and we need to shut down society for everything that kills somebody. :thinking:

We have vaccines for those

The problem with COVID was at the time we didn’t have a vaccine or treatment for it.

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That´s nonsense.

Most companies do supply living rooms for their workers if they come from outside of town. To be hired by a big company has nothing to do with your home location but all about your experience, wage demands and skill.

The gaming industry is in a crisis since years, mobile gaming is booming, so does streaming and social media. You need to find a balance if you design a product for the PC market and despite all the young guns wanting to make a million first year, they have to cut back on their expectations and learn to work from buttom to top.

This expectation of young people that a degree in something automatically means big $$$ is so stupid. Everyone can get a degree these days, many even without actual skill as you can pretty much buy yourself one.

Internet, ghost writers… the days when people sat in libarys for months to study are long gone in most professions and i do have more respect of people that learn things by themselves than those with big $$$ and a questionable degree.

what makes you think these are short term leases? They could be 10 year leases or more.

last year before all these tech layoffs?

The rich worked form home and on vacation for decades as they never spend time in the office as they have people working for them. They cant stand the idea that people is at home than having a manager breath down their back every second as they see fear as the only motivation for productivity.

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Why would you apply to a job without it being in the contract that it was remote.

On what planet? I wish I lived there.

No companies give their employees living quarters (outside of gimmicks at places like Google like Nap Pods or Elon Musk getting in trouble for providing cots for his employees because it crosses zoning lines) or pay for housing for them specifically that I’ve ever heard of, and I have known people who worked in the games industry.

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Exactly what my work did. I no longer have a desk. I book a terminal to plug my laptop into for the two days I need to go in.

Office is dead most days. Maybe another 10 people I can see on my floor in a big corporate office.