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Ryuu96 on 25 January 2024
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Machiavellian said:
Ryuu96 said:

Their fiscal report is next week so yeah... It's starting to feel like the penny pincher CFOs are taking over lately.

Short term goals being the focus.

I can understand from a purely heartless business perspective, why a company would lay off after a merger certain overlapping positions, but the COD development team layoffs are completely baffling me. I can't even from a heartless perspective figure out how it makes sense.

Its really not heartless, its what actually has to be done.  While people see "X number of people layoff" what they forget is that all of these people will be given very generous packages.  Just from my experience when I was layoff about 4 years ago from a company I worked for 15 years.  I received over 39K and 6 months free medical benefits.  I got another job within the same month and pocketed the that money without losing a beat.

If devs got cut, there could be a very good reason probably on the line of performance.  Not all devs are made equal so you do have to realize that.

I am not saying everyone will be able to find new jobs that fast but there are a lot of places hiring for all the positions that were let go, its just not going to always be in the tech or game sector.  Most people who got layed off like me used their money to startup new companies and business you name it.  Its not the end of the world and in most cases it probably going to be the best thing for a lot of those people.

I'm aware Microsoft packages are extremely generous but not everyone is working solely for the money, for some it is their dream job. I understand why from a business perspective it is done, but at the same time, it is still heartless, cold and calculated. Other layoffs don't make a lick of sense like the developer layoffs at COD and come across only as a blind cost cutting measure to lay off whoever to save a bit of money.

And this industry is laying off across the board, thousands of employees every year, people literally can't find another job in it due to how many people are unemployed now due to layoffs and due to how many layoffs just keep happening. This industry collectively seems to think that employees aren't human beings, they seem to think they're just machines, they can fire them 10x over and everything will be okay.

They're wrong, we've already had reports that there's a shortage of talent in the industry, what do publishers think is going to happen when they mentally destroy thousands of employees over and over again? They'll follow others burnout from crunch and leave the industry. If you're leaving college right now with a huge debt, why the fuck would you want to join the gaming industry right now? It's too unstable and volatile.

And when publishers need these employees again in the future...Good luck, cause they aren't going to be here.