• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    4 months ago

    who would have guessed that laying off an entire studio overnight would have repercussions, ey Microsoft?

    Immediately went from papa microsoft who believes in the studio to “Make money or GTFO”

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      4 months ago

      It turns out that job security is rather important! Who would have thunk that, Microsoft?

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      4 months ago

      Don’t overestimate what unions do. MS is still perfectly in their right to close down the studio and fire all it’s staff, if they had a mind to.

      It’s just a matter of doing it properly. Severance Pay, Pensions and such. Which I honestly don’t think Microsoft cares too much about.

      I mean, if they can avoid paying it, they would. But they do actually have a legitimate business side. And severance pay for the entire Blizzard staff would likely still cost them less than what they had to pay Kotick to get rid of him.

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    4 months ago

    That’s the second Microsoft Game studio to unionize isn’t it. How excellent!

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    Do they have any leverage? How much money is wow still making off new content at this point?

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    Wait, I’m missing something. What does World of Warcraft have in common with Microsoft?

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        🤯

        I must have been under a rock.

        No wonder they were able to unionize so quickly. And I bet they had to, knowing Microsoft’s track record.

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            I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don’t even know it there’s a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd

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          And they paid $69 billion, which is the dumb joke amount Elon initially said he’d pay for Twitter, but these dorks actually did it

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    4 months ago

    Anyone wanna start a sysadmin union? Anyone? Please? My neck is starting to hurt from all the hats they make me wear!