do you have some insight into developer procedures to know this? have you maybe sat in on some planning meetings where no one said a word but ion?
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Well considering Ion is the boss making the shots, Iād reckon he has the last say on the matter.
He is only known for good Raids, not surprising Shadowlands problems are in every area but that.
Perhaps coincidence, probably not.
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Your quote was about āoutput per labor hourā, which Iām reading as a quantification of employee output. That could be a wrong reading, but it doesnāt exactly feel like an inflationary macroeconomic thing. Iād read your source if you linked one, but being that Iām not an economist and Iām not really that invested, Iāll just pitch that productivity would probably greatly increase if people were actually rewarded for their effort in a company.
In todayās culture, you improve your status by changing employers, not by working hard, and the vast majority of employers have made it very clear that they could not possibly care less about the individual employee, which does not-- anecdotally-- make me want to work very hard for their benefit.
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Fiat āmoneyā or paper, holds no real value other than by fake demand.
Meaning you can increase the wages all day long, but it wonāt solve problems.
You can try to rip a business apart and cash every penny, but then youāll be unemployed.
Well yeah they donāt care, because they are the ones taking all the risks for their own personal investments which are normally in the hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions, and smaller businesses usually canāt compete with over regulation and high wages.
You really donāt need to be an economist to figure this out. If you have no production, you have no growth, because you arenāt creating a product that you can sell.
If all your production is money going over seas to foreign nations, and that product is then imported to you to purchase at your local store, you are literally endorsing your own poverty, and businesses will get wealthy of this. But this concept was introduced under Bill Clinton which left many african americans unemployed specifically in urban areas.
But the root of the problem goes back much further.
A production economy does not include a person working at walmart, or a fast food place, that is considered a āSales economy.ā
He sent /gquit to Blizzard.
Iām actually pretty happy and comfortable with the amount of money Iām getting paid. Wages are not the only bargaining chip that employers have to influence employee morale (and therefore production).
Again, this is only me, but this has been my personal experience:
When I was offered my position at my current employer, they were a small business that took pains to appreciate their employees. Vacations, flexible work schedules, wages, the owner would walk around and talk to people, company lunchesā¦ Thereās all kinds of things they can do to make an employee care about the business.
After being sold to a much larger company, they immediately changed the entire workplace culture. Before, we had competitions to see who could put out the most production, just as employees, because it was fun and we felt appreciated. Now, we calculate out exactly how much production we have to put out to meet the bare minimum of our goals. If that. I could go into more detail, but I have witnessed firsthand a decline in worker output entirely because of a change in company culture, and I donāt feel like my experience is all that unique, except for maybe the first as a comparison point.
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Wonder if he has spot over at Dreamhaven waiting?
Well of course, but do you think the owner who was doing these things sold the business because he was offered an unrefutably amount or was the business breaking even?
Iāve worked plenty of manual labor jobs and been screwed by it, iām aware of how pinching pennies goes. I worked at a franchise UPS store about 12 years ago, and he was the shadiest businessman Iāve ever met.
āWe only do 3 day shipping, tell them ground is no longer available over holidays.ā
Then charge them āInsuranceā on said package which would be anywhere from $20 to $50 a piece depending on size and weight.
I come from a family of accountants, being in a clerical class is definitely more reliable these days anything else that isnāt essential, is vulnerable to fail.
He sold because he wanted to retire. I know that from having talked to him at least.
But thatās also irrelevant. He could have hated every single one of us. His actual opinion towards his employees doesnāt matter in the least so much as how he made his employees feel about the company.
I do not see how it can possibly help your bottom line when most of your employees actively hate you. Most very large corporations at this point continue to function entirely off of scale and anticompetitive practices-- Walmart isnāt successful because itās a good company selling good products, itās successful because itās allowed to monopolize retail in areas, and Iād be curious what their actual margins are when a significant portion of their employees actively resist doing their jobs.
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Well it seems we agree on a lot of things. I think our only indifference is my original examination of the cause to these issues which I think are beyond political spectrums or wage increases.
I wasnāt insinuating he did any of that out of emotion, but financial situation. Many businesses have a high rate of failure over the course of 5 years, about 80-85% do fail. Even construction businesses have an extremely high rate of failure/bankruptcy.
At least he did it for retirement.
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There was only one quest line really with splits at end for covenants. When I got bored in BFA, I switched and did the Horde quest line which I liked even better!
No, young fresh blood is what has led to so many terrible choices. The old guard are almost all gone and the game hasnāt gotten any better over the years, only worse.
oh nooo, no more ācollect 8 pieces of poopā, āslay 12 poop makersā and literal copies of mobile games quests???
Donāt think I can go on guys!!!
Itās really weird to see some of the posters in this thread who are seemingly upset that this guy found a new opportunity for himself and has left Blizzard but also think they that Blizzard staff needs to get āfiredā and replaced.
Which one is it? Do you guys want new staff or do you now want new staff?
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Blizz is a black hole anymore.
Understaffed, overworked, horrible leadership (ion), underpaid. But then again when was the last time they produced something new? Everything I see is a copy/paste model and recolors.
Guess that means thereās a job position available.
And Iāve been known to write a few Harry Potter vampire fanfictions in my timeā¦
people move on with their lives and careers , if online gamers had real careers would have known that . nothing to see here
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I mean who would work more than 10 years at the same place especially 6 years in the exact same job?
Makes sense for him to move onto bigger and better things.
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Itās wild to me to think that so many people on the forum donāt understand this, itās telling, to say the least.
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