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For a long time the perception was Activision was undermining what made Blizzard "special." I think one thing that has come out of all this is maybe the realization Blizzard itself has internal problems that really can't be pinned on Activision, if anything it's like a company that just did too...

WoW probably has enough passive subs from people that long ago forgot to cancel that it would remain the #2 MMO or so on the market for years just on that momentum alone. I do think the poor quality of 9.1 (much more than any of the nonsense being discussed here) which was kind of a final straw...

I post here exclusively for the MMO threads, unfortunately it looks like we had some anal leakage from the rest of the forum into the WoW thread and it got filled up with the Q / 8 chan / welfare recipient crowd that populates the other parts of the forum.

We could also talk about all the Big Brain comments from the low IQs in this thread saying Activision is "Doomed" and going under. The company grew revenue 25% in 2020, has doubled its net income in 4 years. It's 2.2b in revenue Q1 2021 is up from prior year Q1 (1.78b), and its net income is up...

I do. Typical low information / low IQ post from FOH poster drone-048. This forum is literally the approximate quality of a local Facebook news thread filled with 60 year old Karens and angry trailer park trash with wrap around sunglasses for days.

It's funny in that story your beef is with the Union instead of with Ford. Do you think that things would have been any better if Ford didn't have to work with a Union? You can look to autoworkers in the U.S. South who make like 1/3rd the wage of the unionized Detroit autoworkers and get your...

That's like when you see someone post a screenshot from Light Mode Discord, it's a direct view into how the mentally injured live.

State government jobs are not union jobs necessarily, many states don't allow public sector unions. But civil servants are protected by state level "Civil Service Acts" which were developed in the early 20th century to replace the old system of government jobs where you got hired based on what...

MT Pop = 1m US Pop = 330m US Pop - MT Pop = 329m 329m / 330m = 99.6%

A union has a similar role to an employee as a defense attorney does in a criminal case. They are an advocate/agent who acts on your behalf. Lots of defense attorneys go into court and try to get rapists and murderers acquitted, that doesn't mean defense attorneys are a bad thing. Your buddy...

Is that like when you got mad that your nonsense point about at will employment was pointed out as exposing you have literally no fucking clue about anything you're talking about? If you want an actual response from me substantiate your nonsensical claim that unionized employees can't be...

Hey man are you crying?

So you're taking the edgelord position on a forum that's like 98% white nerds age 30 to 45 that woke culture sucks? I think you may be preaching to the already converted friend, you probably need to head down to the cultural equivalent of Africa or something to find some fresh converts. I don't...

I'm not gonna go tit for tat with a retard. You said something dumb, likely something you sucked out of Tucker Carlson's asshole one night while jerking off to pics of AOC or some shit, and I'm not gonna delve into that with you. You showed based on your posts you had little to no knowledge...

Okay grandpa Joe.

Like I said the structure of U.S. unions is garbage because of the shop system, literally no other country has ever used a union system like that, and it's a system that was designed to make unions less effective, and it worked. If we actually had a functioning labor system in the United States...

I mean I see like 5 dudes who are posting at least 4-5 times a day in this thread who seem to basically be obsessed with defending companies and simping out against employees at every turn. I literally don't ever open the politics subforums on this forum due to the class of people who post here...

I mean I don't know you're the one who brought up at will employment. Would you care to attempt a coherent thought? I love all the literal corporate simps in this thread. What is it you think you're getting out of deep throating any random corporation you can find that will let you hold onto its...

So it's funny because anyone who says things like "states where employment is At Will" know almost nothing about employment law. Employment at Will is the standard in the United States. I can go into much more depth if you want, but the only state that isn't At Will is Montana, and it's a common...

I mean box sales are revenue, stock price declines don't have a direct impact on the company's revenue or profitability. They have an impact on the short term stakes of the investors, which is why the CEO will be sensitive to it. Except you get the same shit at every non-union company I've ever...

Unions don't really make lazy workers. I've never been unionized and have worked in white collar jobs my whole career. Most large organizations carry some % of people who do minimal or no work, because it's difficult to manage a large organization so tightly that you can entirely prevent it...

The big issue with unions in America is our labor laws create "shop" unions, where a single specific union has to win an election at a specific work site, once they do, everyone at that work site is represented by that union (in a closed shop which I think may not even be legal anymore, but if...

I like all the people acting like the world is ending because a bunch of manbabies is being held to the same standards most of us who aren't in the games industry have been held to at work our entire adult lives. If you want to play grab ass at work go work in a bar or strip club or some shit...

It's also because they're stupid as fuck dude. I'm a literal nobody and I knew better than to put this shit on the internet 20 fucking years ago. Afrasiabi was basically a gaming celebrity and a higher up at Blizzard, Ghostcrawler was a very public face of the biggest game in the world back...

The lawsuit is civil, it won't turn into criminal action that isn't really how it works. A prosecutor would have to be investigating specific crimes and find probable cause a crime was committed. Pre-indictment criminal investigations are also usually more or less secret (grand jury proceedings...

Yeah I mean the military isn't a great prepper for corporate life, or any real employment at all to be frank. Some of the worst employees I've ever had in software development are retired military. There's a few diamonds in the rough, but a lot of the programming in the military is just so...

Yeah I've never been big on social media at all. Facebook came out in like 2005? I think when I was in college and me and most of my friends spun up accounts, I had a profile pic and that was it. Around the time I graduated I noticed a bunch of people had tagged me in photos from parties and...

Nah, Cosby being a rapist was fairly well known in the 2000s, but it never got legs. I definitely was aware of it, but the context was like "a few women have accused Cosby of raping them", and then no follow up. The difference in the MeToo era is the media doesn't let these stories die, which...

And like literally any PR person with any experience at all could have predicted this is exactly what would happen, corporations don't have a ton of rules and boring cultures because the upper execs jerk off over how thick the Employee Handbook is, it's because it's an effective way to manage...

As I've said a number of times DFEH isn't looking to prove specific cases of harassment. Its looking to prove disparate pay, promotions, anti-pregnancy discrimination, and HR practices out of compliance with California law. It doesn't have to prove a single case of harassment to carry the case...

I must have missed the part where anything in the story about Tiggs shows inappropriate corporate behavior? She was told told to do something and refused (insubordination) and was fired. Part of a corporate PR job (which is what a CM is), is messaging the way the corporation tells you to, your...

Man, again--have you never worked in corporate America? Bro I was being told in 2007 when I graduated college "sanitized all social media, get rid of any drinking photos you have on Facebook, don't post on social media from accounts that could link you to your employer." This stuff isn't new...

I don’t really remember anyone saying Afrasiabi raped 60 women over 40+ years by drugging them like Cosby did. You’ve really Clarence Darrowed here refuting that completely unalleged strawman. Some of you guys have never worked in corps and it shows. You absolutely get in trouble for “words” at...

Maybe people shouldn’t be cucks.

Funny thing—the movie Moneyball which was about Billy Beane applying sabermetrics to running the Oakland A’s actually featured Bobby Kotick doing an uncredited cameo as Steve Schott (the A’s owner.)

My corporate bro analysis of the current situation is that the first statement the company put out was circling the wagons, especially around J Allen Brack, who is specifically alleged to have known of various things and done nothing in response. The new statement feels a lot like Bobby Kotick...

The MeToo shit gets all the soy boys, incels and feminazis ramped up so of course it gets more coverage. But yeah a big part of the meat of the filing actually relates to things like the California Equal Pay act violation. Violations of that act tend to be pretty easy to prove since DFEH likely...

The girl who posted the pile on tweet isn't directly linked to the lawsuit, supposedly she had never said anything before her tweets. Afrasiabi was highlighted in the lawsuit for being involved in reportedly a "pattern of reported behaviors, and Blizzard President J. Allan Brack gave him verbal...

For me Shadowlands was already kind of like a last chance for Blizzard to demonstrate that it still had its old chops. The disastrous Diablo Mobile bullshit, lackluster games like Heroes of the Storm, failing at a remaster of Warcraft III (how do you fuck up a remaster?), Battle for Azeroth...

As much as HR is oft-reviled at like every company I've worked at, I do think the most egregious shit like this is no longer very common at "normal" large businesses. HR just has so much power for structuring legal liability mitigation that they tend to have the organizational heft to kind of...