Activision Blizzard CEO Nets HUGE Bonus After Mass Layoffs

[Pemalite]

Rab said:

Pemalite said:

I'm not offended, it takes allot for me to get offended over something so insignificant, it's small world stuff.

Rather... I am appalled you would use discrimination and slavery in such a lob-sided comparison to reinforce your position... And thus called you out on it. - If you find that disappointing... Then so be it. - I can personally sleep easy knowing I stood up for what I inherently believed in.

It's not a case of "not giving a damn" either, it's a case of: "shit happens".
We are people, we learn, grow and improve from life's experiences, loosing a job tends to be one of those experiences that everyone generally goes through at some point in time, use what you learned from that job and apply that to your next job to open up new opportunities rather than throw a pity party.

Companies hire and fire all the time, it's the cycle of the job market. (Note: Market.)
You need to plan and anticipate those scenarios if your contract isn't air-tight.

This sounds all very defeatist, just accepting this unfair situation as being normal

Unions and employment laws exist for a reason, back at the beginning of the industrial revolution workers including many children were paid and could leave (not slaves) but were terribly exploited by the owners and managers, we live in a better working world today because people had so called "pity parties" to bring up and fight against these issues that for many was just normal business at the time, but some outstanding/brave people said 'that is not good enough', now we have a new normal, and even though better, it's still not good enough, we are an evolving society   

I also stand up for what I believe in  

It's not defeatist.
It's called turning it into an opportunity to use that work experience to open up new opportunities, it's turning it into a positive, not a negative.

You are being a dippy downer about it all, gotta' stop the pity party train and catch the next bus at some point in life, we all eventually do it.

benji232 said:

IT'S a plainly obvious problem if a CEO is allowed to make 200M$ from a bonus payment while his employees are all making peanuts. If you can't see the problem with that, then I don't know what to tell you. Obviously, I'm not saying everyone should be paid equally, but there is a fine line between being paid equally and being paid literal crumbs compared to the ceo. 

Point blank is NO one deserves 200M$ from a bonus. The fact that so many ceos DO get those grossly huge overpayments is proof that the current system is broken.

That's capitalism.
It is what the market (Job market is a market) is willing to pay for that particular skillset and experience.

If you wish to make $200 million from a bonus, you are free to work yourself up the ladder and offer a compelling equivalent resume in terms of qualifications and experience that would offer such an opportunity.
If you don't wish to do so, then don't hold others back due to your own lack of motivation or desire or force your ethics onto others.

Otherwise, why would anyone bother to strive to succeed in certain fields if we are all paid the same? It's an incentive. Money makes the world go round.