100+ customer support leave Blizzard

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Don’t try to be smart. No, you don’t.

How do you even know that who you are working for aren’t fundamentally screwing you over with working conditions and you don’t even know it to ask a lawyer?

Could be break times, total working hours, hours between shifts, if its too hot or cold or any other rights. Your lawyer follow you around?:thinking:

Live in blissful ignorance though, like asking why companies would give voluntary redundancy or “y they just no fire them all!?” Speaksvolumes.

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no I dont what? :joy:

I ask him stuff when I get concerned with things and he answers, explains and advices me. lol

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Much like BFA i dont expect blizzard to be what i thought it was growing up lol

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In Germany it’s called Auflösungsvertrag. Google translate says: resolution contract. No idea if that’s true tho. :smile:

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Isn’t this a little short? At least compared to Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz :slight_smile:

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Beef, WHAT…??

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If that’s what happens when your job no longer exists & your company pay you money as ‘compensation’, then yes.

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According to google translate: “Beef labeling monitoring delegation Act”. Some law that was relevant several years ago.

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… and I thought that Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen was a mouthful…?

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No, it’s when your company is a total b and wants to get rid of you without having to pay compensation.

When my wife got pregnant she instantly wasn’t allowed to work anymore because of soldering fumes and since her employer was a @ß they tried to get rid of her with mentioned contract.

However you can customize these contracts to make them more attractive to the employee so it’s not always automatically bad.

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That, in the UK, would be unfair dismissal… if it went through.

Their solder should comply with RoHS, anyway… if they’re trying to say there’s too much lead (Pb) in it, then unfair dismissal might work.

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Well that was 8 years ago and we moved to another city anyway so it didn’t realy matter. But ever since i recommend anyone to never sign such a contract.

Oh and btw: Elektrizitätswirtschaftsorganisationsgesetz

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So, this is actually pretty damn sensational.

Full disclosure, I am from Cork and happen to know past and current employees working in the office.

Keep in mind these are customer service reps, and a large amount of the people now leaving have been there for years now and were probably looking to move on anyway, possibly because they want a new job or simply because they’ve gone as far as they can. People tend to work for Blizzard for a long, long time so it’s quite hard to get promotions.

The same thing happened back in 2008/09 (when the game was doing very well) and I think again in 2011 or something.

I suspect this is a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.

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Granite brexit, leave means leave.

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Staffing is just as legitimate as downsizing. Automated systems do mean less people are needed compared to a decade ago.

However… I recently had to open a ticket. Back in Wotlk, my only prior experience with tickets, these were taken care off in minutes. Mine was open for 56 hours this time round…

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Maybe but than you combine that with the falling activision stocks and it does become a reason to worry.

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In italy my company. cut in this way many collegues. Giving money or anticipate money for retirement. Result? We lost know how and quality . Normally this method is used to unite redundant offices. Or belived so.

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If you make enough molehills eventually you will get a mountain.

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How?

Blizzard are just down-sizing, and in a fairly controlled and orderly fashion.

Years back when WoW’s initial growth had come to a halt and they realized they were over-staffed, they cut some 600 customer support representative jobs. That was the less controlled and less orderly fashion.

Today Blizzard don’t have an MMORPG with 12 million subscribers. And they don’t have a brand new RTS or ARPG game either, or a new TCG or FPS for that matter.

The company size is simply too big for the current portfolio. What they’re doing is what any company does in a situation like this, which is to cut costs and focus on the core business: The game development in Blizzard’s case.
The rest shrinks in size to reflect the fact that the company isn’t riding on a wave of success right now and contrary to popular belief, isn’t swimming in a pool of cash either.

Blizzard are unlikely to release anything substantial in 2019. And apart from BfA, then they didn’t really release anything of substance in 2018 either. That’s 2 years of nothing - 3 even since 2017 wasn’t much to write home about either. That’s brutal on any company, but especially one as big as Blizzard which has lots of operating expenses to cover.
They have to make lots of new games fast. And until then, they have to cut costs.

In 2019 Blizzard are going to announce more games than ever before, that there is no doubt about. And in 2020 they’re going to release more games than ever before, that there is also no doubt about.
And until 2020, they’re going to cut costs and increase short term revenues from their existing games portfolio , because they’re simply not earning enough money these days.

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