It was quoted in some other tweets too but they were more sweary and I can’t share those.
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No, but only a proportion of races and genders that match the same proportion of students from universities where those professionals are formed are qualified employees. Some overrepresented people are mediocre employees who wouldn’t be hired if they were white men.
If a population is overrepresented compared to that same population in universities, it means the company has hired mediocre employees to match diversity quotas, and they will be the first to be fired once a company needs to adjust the costs.
The solution is never to choose diversity over qualification. The solution is to promote the formation of those unrepresented populations because once that happens companies will have diversity AND qualification. After all, they don’t need to sacrifice things in for diversity if the employee pool available in the country is already diverse. There couldn’t be equity among men and women in companies if there is no equity between men and women options for those college grades.
Said long time ago ybarra was just there to broker the deal from the inside.
People laughed at the idea.
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if you look at any tiktok style video of a “myday” for the people that work at these tech companies, I would not be surprised if you could fire 80% of the company and see zero impact on output.
What he gonna do now then?
Is it what people call “gamer rage” and “terminally online”?
Me back in BFA: “I can’t complete this WQ, I’m being phased for no reason”
Them: Sends a wowhead link.
Bro. It was fixed next time the WQ came around. What’s the point of sending me to wowhead when something is clearly wrong in a way that would require something on their part to fix.
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It’s called holding companies to a standard.
Doesn’t matter if it’s Blizzard or any other company, if the people who are supposed to deliver customer service doesn’t then they should not work there.
Unfortunately I am allergic to logging in on Twitter.
I’ve been trying to understand these layoffs throughout the day. I heard layoffs and was just like “wtf?! why?!” because I thought we’d just been through that. Then more news arrived over time
So far I’ve gotten the following:
- The unannounced survival game
6 years in development with nothing to show for it. Probably deserved the axe. Could’ve reallocated some of them - I fear they’ve thrown the baby out with the bathwater, but it’s hard to know since I haven’t seen it - Customer support - BIG time
Blizzard’s customer support has always been a notoriously toxic place to work. Almost every story I’ve ever heard from Blizzard has been that this place was some sort of toxic moshpit that you had to fight your way through to get into Blizzard proper. And, honestly, I can’t generally say they’ve done a great job. - Some on the platforms team
Dude seemed to be massively underpaid anyway. He’s better off letting go of his abusive love-relationship and getting paid what he’s worth, which is like 8x what he was being paid. I think they’re planning to merge Battle.Net into Xbox - the death of the battle.net app is nigh, and we’ll all be getting our game from the XBox Store or Steam. - Some upper management/HR/finances teams
This was obvious. Happens every merger, no exceptions.
Any others?
Oh my fu**ing god, people are losing jobs and all you can shat out of your trap is “WOKE!!! PROPAGANDA!!!” it’s not even related to the post and cornerstone of discussion.
You know, leave this game, its joever, wow will transform in woke game yadda yadda
I misunderstood a little, still no matter whether their job was actually efficient or not the main problem is how they handled keeping employees informed, not actual layoffs
It’s people across the various games being let go (OW/D4/WoW etc). And other titles MS has taken on that aren’t Blizzard/ATVI.
Obviously getting rid of staff in US is a case of telling them they are gone and escort them out of the building. In the EU it takes a bit longer but it will most likely mirror what’s happened there.
Looks like MS aren’t interested in anything community orientated or customer service and shedding people there but also people who work on the actual games side of things too. The scrapped survival game also mostly got laid off. CS they seem to be looking to outsource to a third party. Some of this is not confirmed ofc.
I’ve pretty much shared anything I’ve come across. I can’t link every lay off tweet obvs.
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I find that when there’s a layoff some people who are considered to be underperforming, regardless of whether that’s true or not, will be thrown out at the same time. That happened in my company when we laid off ~400 people a few months ago.
Also: Yes, I can appreciate how horrible this feels even when you don’t get fired. I’ve been there… These layoffs should be avoided at all costs. Deal with bad employees as they appear, don’t save it all up like this.
To be honest thank god.
i can name so much survival games that blizzard’s project will just blend into background.
Dayz, 7 days to die, valheim, v-rising, rust, subnautica, palworld, terraria, long dark, ark.
Like how would you even stand out
I would have played it, I’m really disappointed it got scrapped.
However I can’t comment on something I’ve never seen. I have read that testers really enjoyed playing it and it has that nice polish to it that other survival games lack.
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Layoffs catch everyone. And you often lose your best staff because they will just look for a job as soon as theirs is at risk. Unless they are waiting for a good severance deal ofc.
I saw some news piece of this and it was mentioned in there that the survival game would never have lasted and would have died faster the HoTS. Simply because Blizzard is far too big and has far too many process in place to get the content out quickly. Microsoft must have recognized this and pulled the plug for this reason.
Well, if you actually love your job or work, you literally have nothing to fear of be afraid for.
All other leeches , i hope microsoft will find them,. should be fired too.
He was part of this and i guess he was caught,. and fired.
I really do not get why you so passionate about defending blizzard maybe because of your green title, but customer service went downhill long time ago. MS can only revive it.
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Hopefully something good comes out of it .never like Mike Ybarra .the guy literally reeked a non serious attitude personality .
That’s not the case, particularly in the US. For example laying off the entire survival game staff. I’m sure there would have been employees there with great skills that could have transferred to other projects. It’s not just Microsoft, most US companies do exactly the same thing. Lay off entire departments/teams without looking at who is included.
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