Wow… the unfair labor practices in Activision-Blizzard just don’t stop. They are a HORRIBLE company in every respect of the word.
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I’m well aware. Unbridled capitalism, for a worker, is a massive race to the bottom precisely because it becomes normalized for the workers to compete against each other. Oh you only did 40 hours? I did 45. Oh wait you’re now doing 50? Screw that, I’ll do 60.
Meanwhile the company has a grinch smile while they cut the FTE position the 2 of us are absorbing the work of to pad our workloads and dangling that “executive” title over our heads saying if we just tried even just a little bit harder we might just make it. Then one of us kicks the bucket and the job gets posted that same day asking for some young kid desperate for a job to do it and more for half the pay as part of “paying their dues”
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Dang in my job I use to do if you didn’t do 100% of your job right you could kill someone …some of you will never know that feeling on a job where someone’s life depending on you doing your job correctly the first time. Fighter Pilots depended on my work to keep them alive from basic rivet I bucked correctly in or the whole intake wall I repaired correctly. Ah I miss those days of working on F-14’s Tomcatt Military Jets.
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Indeed.
I read this, and more importantly, the linked Bloomberg article in the second tweet of the actual twitter thread, earlier.
All the more reason for the Microsoft acquisition to go through post haste. Microsoft got rid of this toxic management practice in 2013.
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Pre sure at least whoever is behind warlock design and tree balance is not amazing. By all means, let him hit your quota.
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I bet if this “manager” could properly rate his team we wouldn’t have 8 hour maintenance to resolve their mediocre coding skills, they’d already be in the unemployment line or working on solar panels/wind turbines.
Maybe with Brian leaving we can get some management in there that will actually set standards for people. Yesterday I read about how Google is laying off a bunch of people and all i could think about was an article that I read a month ago about ‘quiet quitting’… Well so much for that. Tech industry is about ready to hit a big bust… If you’ve been one of those ‘quiet quitters’ I suggest you brush up your resume and find a new career field.
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Honestly they could probably trim a little fat here and there and it wouldn’t hurt the product at all.
Your morals don’t apply to me. Your morals aren’t based on objectivity. The law, however, is objective
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA read the entire comment not just the part that triggers you cupcake. Show you care, cancel your sub and uninstall the game.
You only care to the point of inconvenience though. Once it becomes inconvenient you’re just like everyone else. Too weak to stand by your principles, b/c they’re not really principles, just guidelines for your ideal situation.
Change the world, go start your own business and do performance reviews however you want. No one is stopping you but your own laziness.
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It’s a dumb system so I believe this.
“Sir, you were going 110 mph.”
“Everyone speeds! You clearly you had to go even faster than that just to catch me!”
Just like you’ll keep assuming you know the answer instead, right?
You have no way of knowing he doesn’t have this in place already.
The number of people who like to brown nose in this thread is staggering.
If he had a standard, and more importantly followed the standard set by his boss, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
alright, great idea, where are the tens of millions of dollars that is always laying around for just creating a company out of nowhere again? i always lose sight of those pesky investors
you gotta be kidding if you think life is that easy
that would be a disaster if you had to layoff thousands of employees
I created a company with $150 and my company now does half a million in revenue a year with minimal effort from me. It wouldn’t take much for me to triple that but I’d rather have some free time in my life to play WoW, go hunting, hang out with my daughter, go to adventure island, and the beach.
My employees love my revenue sharing bonuses I pay out every quarter for doing the work I don’t feel like doing.
I know life is that easy. Because I’ve done it. You’re just lazy. That’s all there is to it.
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that is either
1: bullcrap
or
2: dishonesty in it’s truer form
food, water, power, internet, are already enough to drain all of a normal salary, plus all the taxes and legal documents alone to create a company are over 1000 dollars
did you got not investors? was your company founded in the 1800’s? is your 1/2 million dollar empire a crypto scam?
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Believe it or not 1/2 of employees are below average. Think about that fact. It is a mathematical CERTAINTY unless you live in the everyone is equal fantasy world.
But people under 40 dont get it due to participation trophies. Harvard average GPA is now 3.8 so they had to get rid of Dean’s List. Professors say nothing as they want to keep their jobs. Passes on to work.
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No, it costs $100 in my state to file for an LLC. Which I didn’t actually do until I hit about 4k in revenue (which was all reinvested back into my company) I operated as a sole proprietorship which cost about $15 to file for the DBA. I worked a full time job while getting my business off the ground and didn’t quit it until I was making the revenue to support myself.
If you spent a few hours looking at things, you’ll quickly find it’s not that hard to start a business. The harder part is coming up with a product or service that there is space in to make money.
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