What an utter dick.
About as bad as the last company I worked at, a VP would say folks who were laid off were “promoted to customers”.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people
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apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Quazatron@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I do hope there’s a special place in hell for people like this, where they are spanked for all eternity with a soup spoon.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I suggest violence
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Oh I left before I was “promoted”. It was a hellish place and you’d definitely know the company if in North America.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Amazon? This was a running joke employees would say all the time.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nope, but not shocking.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ai is going to bankrupt a lot of stupid business owners
greendog@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
At this point, the weeding is needed
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Good, they’ll have to sell off all their shit, and we can get lots of fancy stuff really cheap at their yard sales.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I too collect guitars, I like your logic here.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The basics are still there: Food, Shelter, Water, Safety Fill one of those needs and forget about the fancy AI silliness.
HarneyToker@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yes, before AI Fortnite was fulfilling one of those 4 basic needs, you’re right.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Honestly, I do respect the decision to publicly declare that the laid off employees were very good. I’ve done job searching while laid off and it does suck the suspicion through which you’re viewed by interviewers when they ask about it
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
When I did hiring our HR had some system that did this. It fucking sucked. It passed through so many shit candidates. I eventually ended up just going straight to the discard pile when I had to review applications.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I just don’t get all this shit. I’m a programmer and for years at my last job I did most of the interviewing for candidates and had the final say-so for whether or not we hired somebody. I could tell in a 15 minute phone call whether somebody knew what they were doing or not and could make a positive contribution to the project.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah I think some people think laid off and fired are synonyms. I was just low seniority in my union
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
my company of 50 went down to 22 because of “AI productivity gainz” - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 11 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant “fire drills” to keep them happy.
mrfriki@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
We just started using it a couple of weeks ago, I’m expecting this same scenario.
Devconsole@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Did management have anything to say? How was the dip in client retention measured?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
EOY state of the Union report, 10Q reporting or whatever the eoy one is called.
Retention is the classic churn metric (lost/total)*100
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is the type of “dickery” that surpasses all measurement, the one that is, honest to god, trying to be nice.
In short, he’s really, REALLY stupid.
terabyterex@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
by giving them 6 months of severrnce, extended health care?
Goodeye8@piefed.social 15 hours ago
You don’t even get why he’s being called stupid but let’s address what you said first. Would you rather get a 6 months severance and a very little opportunities to get rehired is almost impossible or keep your current job? Unless you’re stupid you’d rather keep your job. The 6 months severance with health care doesn’t matter when you’re being thrown overboard.
And he’s being called stupid because he’s throwing people overboard to keep his ship going and he’s trying to pass it off as “they’ll survive” like he’s done nothing wrong. He’d genuinely would look smarter if he just shut the fuck up and take the layoff criticisms on the chin. But you know, much like Randy Pitchford, Sweeney loves to put his foot in his mouth.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The fact that he is complying with the workers’ contract has nothing to do with the fact that his comment, and by extension he himself, is stupid.
chunes@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’s supposed to be good? That’s bare minimum.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The EGO on this man "because I hired all of these people, they’re amazing. Pay no attention to the fact that I had to lay 1k of them off due to poor planning.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
No, employers will REJECT all those great resumes, because they’re firing their best people, too.
All this uncontrolled giddiness about AI is entirely, 100% because they are so excited about the opportunity to FIRE as many disgusting human workers as possible. They have already declared the human workforce dead, and they are replacing us ASAP, often before our computerized replacements are even ready.
Remember all those racists chanting about being replaced? It isn’t the Jews, or the immigrants, or whatever was in their pea brains, it’s the AI/Robotics that absolutely WILL replace us.
Horsey@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They’re trying to realign tech and software developers from the cool, relaxed, high paid jobs of a decade ago to more modern standards of work.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
7101334@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I agree with the first two paragraphs, but as for the third, I think you overestimate the capability of chatbots on steroids. It couldn’t even run a Taco Bell drivethrough.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
I get what you are saying, but the distinguishing characteristic of the new AI, over the past computer programs, is that it learns, and improves. Years ago, people used to laugh at me for supporting solar, because it was so inefficient. I just said the research will improve it, and today solar is an extremely popular, affordable, and growing option, especially with Trump’s war profiteering.
Apparently in the AI world, they are expecting it’s capabilities to double every 7 months. I saw a list of steps, with the industries that will be impacted with each step, and as each step doubles, it impacts bigger and bigger industries.
It’s learning the basics right now, but humans are training the AI to the point that it will replace them, then the next level of humans will train the next level until replaces them, then move on to the next level to be trained.
In a few years, well all be replaced, except a lucky few who do the maintenance, but those jobs won’t pay much, because if you won’t do it for that pay scale, get out of the way, there are a LOT of unemployed people who will accept it.
marighost@piefed.social 1 day ago
Oh yeah Timmy? Who’s hiring them in this industry, let alone this economy? Go fuck yourself.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 22 hours ago
Roblox? It’s about the same thing as Fortnite, is it not?
starchylemming@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
a yes the child molester playground provider
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And not a single one of those resumes will be from someone that has any loyalty to EPIC. Those employees won’t give a shit about the company that pays them, just that they get paid.
So EPIC will continue to lose money by paying top dollar for the most unmotivated of employees. The ones who will collect a check to let management make all the creative decisions, and then leave once that inevitably leads to a dumpster fire. Rinse & repeat with the next place that’ll pay more.
Jokes on the EPIC CEO for being so myopic he doesn’t seem to understand the reality of this situation. That he’s about to pay top dollar for the worst employees imaginable: they ones who won’t shake the boat when its clearly already on its way to being capsized.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What are you talking about? EPIC is the one who fired these employees, not the one who is going to receive their resumes. These will be other companies.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Everytime this dirt bag speaks, I wish I had more Epic accounts to cancel.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Just pirate their shit.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Not my cup of tea, for a number of reasons:
- from a security standpoint, I would have a very high probability of downloading something nasty;
- from a legal standpoint, authorities frown upon such behaviour;
- from a moral standpoint, people who produce games should be payed;
- from a personal standpoint, I don’t like any of their games.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Right up there with the 30000 from Amazon.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If they’re so talented and experienced, then why’d you fire them for no reason? Surely the company expects to continue growing and will need more employees, not fewer.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also a sudden surge in game programmers learning some security concepts and transitioning into cybercrime too hopefully.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I need to meet some of them and team up.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yes because everyone who got laid off is seeing once in a lifetime opportunities and not a lot of automated rejections based off of crappy LLM setups.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I got laid off from a large west coast tech firm (rhymes with Crisco) but we were allowed two months to try and find a new job internally. There were hundreds of listings, but the job descriptions were all word-for-word identical and they all referenced artificial intelligence (and this was seven years ago). I never got a single reply to an application and neither did anybody else I knew there.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 15 hours ago
Weird you’d let all that talent go, then…
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
He needs to be dropped into a deep well and forgotten.
Ashtear@piefed.social 1 day ago
It really didn’t take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I missed the memo there was goodwill.
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He manages to toot his own horn and be completely tone-deaf in a single sentence.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
Bragging about leaving people who deserve better jobless, avoiding the use of humanizing language (mentions the resumes, makes sure not to mention “quality” people).
gnarly@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It sounds like a snippet from a bigger statement to me.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
I call bullshit. He’s under the illusion that computer science and development requires geniuses like they did in the 1950’s. Most are just working stiffs being bandied about by bad leadership who eventually throws them away after a series of bad management decisions.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Being a genius only takes you so far. A lot of projects need manpower for testing and debugging, and waiting for some genius with 23549 AI agents won’t solve it.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
oh, so he did it for the corporations? nice
Binturong@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Do the shareholders know? I mean actually though, are they watching? How do these CEOs not get removed for annihilating company futures based on speculative bubbles? Microslop is having the exact same issue with their guy… Can they just not see it somehow? How are they being bamboozled?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Mass Hirings and Firings are all smoke and mirrors for the shareholders. You do a mass hirings to put on the appearance of growth and you do mass firings to put on the appearance of cuttings costs. None of it’s real and the shareholders don’t seem to care.
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Tencent does not care.
wewbull@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Living it right now. Me: “We’ve sold off or had resignations from ¾ of our engineering” Boss: “We’ll rebuild”.
Also Boss: “Our value is in our people”.
FluorideMind@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I do have to give him a mole of credit for at least advocateing their quality. But tbh they should just have together into their own studio.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Remember back when this AI Slop jock jagoff was making great games? Feels like an eternity ago.
addie@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Unreal and Unreal Tournament, sure. I feel like all of their many sequels saw a continuous decline in quality, but the originals were great games. Can’t deny that Gears of War has been influential. Epic Pinball and One Must Fall 2097 were good for a laugh for ten minutes, but I can’t help but feel that they’ll have aged badly.
Seems crazy to think that Jill of the Jungle, which is an awful game, is what lined their pockets enough to develop the Unreal engine, and they were riding on the success of that all the way up to Fortnite.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
A little irrelevant but I saw a reel saying Tim saves Amazon forests with his own money. Apparently he has bought a lot of land there only for the sole purpose of saving Amazon. Can anyone fact check this?
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
Apparently he bought it so he can steal endangered animals and make them fight in a “death arena” in his back garden. Please don’t fact check this, just accept it is true.
MBech@feddit.dk 13 hours ago
Wouldn’t be the first time though.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Is it that thing where people get paid for not cutting the forest down?
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Can anyone fact check this
You could?
But I guess I will.
I can’t find any good source for him having bought Amazon forest. However he seems to be buying and donating wooded land in the Appalachians.
treehugger.com/fortnite-founder-sweeney-invests-m…
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/…/93443704/
thegamer.com/fortnite-creator-epic-founder-time-s…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/129589611.cms
appalachian.org/sahc-south-yellow-mountain-preser…
In that last one he is being thanked for a particularly large land donation.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 day ago
employersLLM screening bots will see (and swiftly reject) a stream of résumés (regardless) of once-in-a-lifetime quality
LordCrom@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The worst part of job hunting was tailoring your reaume to match a job posting for each job…just to try and get by the AI filters and get humans to look at it.
Once i learned how to fool most HR filters, i started to get calls from companies.
Its all a fucking game
Surp@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Care to share?
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Same here. Is it just listing a bunch of keywords?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.