ZeniMax staff discuss Microsoft's "inhumane" mass layoffs and how the future looks for the "carcass of workers that remains"

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s insidious. They just don’t want to pay employees. The only reason they have any is bc of the fear of starvation/homelessness.

  We, as consumers, cannot let this continue.

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• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nine thousand people who now need to find a way to put food on the table.

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  • Ptsf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    During one of the most profitable years on record… Even if it weren’t, it’d be workers paying for the failure of management.

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Supply side Jesus will provide… References if you really really need them.

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They claim staff were removed from company communications such as Slack and email before human resources had even made contact to inform them whether they’d been let go.

  The creative energy they put into inventing new reasons for gamedevs to hate their job could be better put in, like, games?

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• lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The staff Game Developer spoke to for the report paint a horrifying picture of the day that saw Microsoft jettison all of those people and projects.

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