What an utter dick.
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.
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
Submitted 3 weeks ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
That’s supposed to be good? That’s bare minimum.
marighost@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah Timmy? Who’s hiring them in this industry, let alone this economy? Go fuck yourself.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Roblox? It’s about the same thing as Fortnite, is it not?
starchylemming@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
a yes the child molester playground provider
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ai is going to bankrupt a lot of stupid business owners
greendog@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
At this point, the weeding is needed
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I too collect guitars, I like your logic here.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Yes, before AI Fortnite was fulfilling one of those 4 basic needs, you’re right.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
We just started using it a couple of weeks ago, I’m expecting this same scenario.
Devconsole@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Did management have anything to say? How was the dip in client retention measured?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everytime this dirt bag speaks, I wish I had more Epic accounts to cancel.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just pirate their shit.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also a sudden surge in game programmers learning some security concepts and transitioning into cybercrime too hopefully.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I need to meet some of them and team up.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i’m surprised stories like these haven’t been all over the news with constant tech layoffs
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
7101334@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
He manages to toot his own horn and be completely tone-deaf in a single sentence.
Ashtear@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It really didn’t take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I missed the memo there was goodwill.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Yeah I think some people think laid off and fired are synonyms. I was just low seniority in my union
LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Care to share?
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Same here. Is it just listing a bunch of keywords?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
He needs to be dropped into a deep well and forgotten.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Upending the lives of all of these people is actually a GOOD thing for the industry. ~ Tim Sweeney
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It sounds like a snippet from a bigger statement to me.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Weird you’d let all that talent go, then…
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
“I worked on the team that implemented Vulkan support for Unreal Engine 5, and have created over 200 shaders for AAA retail games.”
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
employersLLM screening bots will see (and swiftly reject) a stream of résumés (regardless) of once-in-a-lifetime qualitysp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No, more like the data crunching algorithms that ingest and evaluate the resumes will fine tune down to determining some kind of pattern or specific pattern of what kind of skill sets Epic apparently no longer needs, and then that data will be sold to some business intelligence / market strategy development consultant, who will then adjust their advice that they give to other tech clients.
Sweeney also fully knows this is what will happen.
Because he has similar consultants or perhaps an inhouse team, going over the same kind of data, that told him to let all these people go.
None of these C suite types actually do any advanced strategic planning.
They have the BI guys write those up for them, like how the military has a set of potential war plans to be followed or activated when some set of cinditions are triggered, or a General decides its time to do it, or w/e.
The C suite folk, they’re literally just a big social club, all they do is collude with or against other C suites.
Like… that’s how this actually works.
It would be immensely easier and generate huge savings for big firms to automate their C suites, not the actual specialists or team leads with deep systemic and specific knowledge.
They’re expensive employees, by far, and they are the most likely to act irrationally.
… But thats not the point.
The point… is to pamper the C suite people’s egos and wallets.
Yep.
That is the actual ultimate end goal.
Its a rigid class system… that just kind of pretends to not be that.
Techno-feudalism.
omarfw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They spent decades putting an end to meritocracy so they could lord over us with unearned positions of power.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Another brilliant CEO decision that is definitely worth his massive pay.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I mean he could pay himself $1 a year and still be making a killing in dividends since he still owns over 40% of the company.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, when I say pay I mean total compensation. Those people take cheap loans out against their equity.
plyth@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Should have kept the employees and offered them as consultants, packaged as loot boxes.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lmao, Rate the ex employees common to legendary and sell them off loot crate style
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Right up there with the 30000 from Amazon.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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”.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
He doesn’t say that they’re good quality. Just, once in a lifetime quality. Interpretation is up the reader.
redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
A lot of big tech companies have just said the people fired suck (I.e calling it “performance based layoffs) to hide that they’ve needed to hit the brake hard.
Deestan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Combined with “…so we fired them on the spot”, this should count as defamation.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
About as bad as the last company I worked at, a VP would say folks who were laid off were “promoted to customers”.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I suggest violence
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Amazon? This was a running joke employees would say all the time.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nope, but not shocking.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“Amazon pays more cause it expects more”. Like fucking 20p more.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I mean, if retail that is an improvement.