Lol, the CEO fucked each and every one of these people over. Restructuring, my ass.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
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Totally. The classic MBA move of firing important people who’s role he doesn’t understand, seeing short term gains from lack of salaries, and exits the company just in time for it to tank because it can’t operate without those people. Walks away with a few cool million, on to his next company to suck dry.
Those stock grants aren't going to grant themselves son. Literally Lord Farquad. "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
Yep, and now they will struggle to get new talent and the ones that can will likely leave as they don't feel safe. I feel sorry for the employees, but this is how it's supposed to work. Future ceos of other companies might think twice before screwing over customers and other devs.
So it sucks for their affected, but it should be a net benefit to the industry long term.
Employees that get fired over dumb-ass CEO decisions should be able to sue the crap out of the company. Let's make it easier to kill the companies that do this shit.
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Ah yes, fire 1,800 employees that bring value to the company. Definitely don’t fire the brain dead, overpaid executives that destroyed the companies credibility with a terrible monetization scheme.
First they fuck their customers, then they fuck their employees. Execs are doing a great job, probably gonna give themselves a raise.
damn. I need to be an exec. sounds like they fuck
You'd have to lose your morals
Execs don't lose their morals.
People who become execs never had morals to begin with. It's not a job you go for because you value people.
I'd disagree with that, there are quite a few execs who are doing the right thing. Less so for public traded companies, but even there not every single person is a soulless moneymonger.
Yeah, but this guy I assume does
Divorce rate amongst CEOs is pretty high. Is it because they aren't at home much, or are they all walking talking society-collapsing DSM-5 examples?
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After what they tried to pull a few months back I have no sympathy.
None for unity, but I have tons for the employees. Company execs made some dumb decision and now they are losing their jobs.
While the execs undoubtedly get additional bonuses and a nice cushy landing when they inevitably bail....
Well they cut costs by 25%! Great job all around!
New CEO now though. Old CEO fucked Unity hard. Jim is the old RedHat CEO before IBM bought them. He was super well liked there. So I have some faith in him getting things back on track and having a good company culture. Just takes time and unfortunately wrecking ball some times. I speak as someone who has been laid off from corporate restructuring before. I found bigger better things with more pay.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
It's crazy to think that people are still making new games on Unity after it's been made painfully obvious that the company is in the corporate downward spiral of enshittification.
How long until Godot is a drop in replacement for Unity lol. We need open source to save us from these asshole corps
The time enshittification worsens.
The only way that this could be good news, is if the entire c-suite was a part of that 1800.
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Remember this in your gaming decisions, y'all.
So punish developers that chose an engine years ago for something they had no control over? How does that help anything?
That’s the same logic as people not tipping because they believe it should be abolished; u til it actually is abolished, you’re only hurting the waiter.
Like a dickhead.
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And not one c suite member was fired.
It seems like every big game company I apply for turns to shit, sorry guys I'll stop
oh no
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