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After 800 Blizzard Employees Lose Their Jobs, Game Workers Unite Calls for Kotick Firing - MMORPG.c
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Yes, that CEO that can't make you a product, THAT'S who should receive all the credit for profits from product sales!
Shit's weak.
LOLWUT?? I think you are confused sir. What is going to happen is millennials are going to be in for a shock when they find out the world doesnt hand out 10th place ribbons because mommy stomped her feet until she got one for her special little joey who was last. Millennial is the "nice word" for spoiled lazy entitled kids who think they are the grease that makes the world go round because mommy spent every waking moment assuring them they are the most special person EVAR!
Change is a coming you are correct all of these white millennial are being replaced by foreigners who actually are motivated and hungry to work for a better life, these millennial will spend the rest of their lives living off their hard working parents who over spoiled them until their parents money is all gone, then they will look around and see they have all been replaced by imported foreign labor and they are inconsequential and forgotten. All of the people they fought for with their social justice will give no craps about them either as they thanklessly move on with their great new lives that you handed over without a fight. I mean my god you millennials actually refer to "streaming games" as a job and a tough demanding job at that lol.
Uhm they will do what they are doing right now, import foreign labor lol. Millennials are in for the rude awakening not the world. Reality check you are the REAL minority in the world you been lied to every day when you hear about "minorities" Make no mistake the world will go on without you contrary to what your momma told you about being the most special child ever, your not. a few million millennials....world population reaching 8 billion....and you still you matter? You have been betrayed by everything you know parents, education system, own government, you dont even see the train coming down the tracks as you cry about "some rich ceo making 30 million while 800 people lost their job" its like peeing in the ocean meanwhile you happily log onto facebook, twitter, amazon and use google where the powers are earning billions and doing everything possible to ensure they can replace "you" with cheap foreign labor or automation lol.
Reality check if those 800 jobs were important to the company then its performance will deteriorate, if they were deadspace with little productivity they will not be missed. I'll wager its the later, and that is why that CEO makes 30 million and me and you don't. Good workers are the utmost important asset to most companies I can assure you they didnt cut off their best and brightest performers.
You guys are skating close to the "politics" line which is frowned upon around here. Let's keep it to the topic without hinting around at politics. Thanks.
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And yet, the dumbass hate train on the generation persists. GG.
Gut Out!
What, me worry?
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Having a job is not a right. If you were laid off or fired in this round, then you were not valuable enough to the company to keep around. Period. Maybe its because your degree is in non-binary-crosstransdimensional-underwater-basket-weaving or maybe its because the position you held was contingent on that part of the company performing and it didn't.
Either way, the value for your labor didn't exist any longer and your services were no longer needed.
So you can whine and bitch about it, or you can suck it up and find another job, but trying to get the CEO fired because he's doing his job is just infantile.
But losing my job hurts!
Yes, losing a job is painful. That's life.
You and i might think its a grotesque amount of money but people like him don't compare themselves with people like us and what we earn. They look at people like Jeff Bezos and think they are being underpaid.
The only people the CEO and board answer to are the investors. Investors care only about profits for the most part. Only once the record profits stop will investors start calling for their heads but in the meantime Kotick and co and run the company into the ground while filling their own pockets.
It is nice to discuss differing opinions with you.
- I think that CEO's get paid on their potential to affect the company. Yes, the direction by which they take the company in, can either lead to financial boon or bankruptcy. I believe they get paid for their potential and what is at stake. The decision of how to prepare your company for the changing market, what game to make, where to go, has a much greater influence than any other employee.
- Should it be 500x that of the median employee? I guess it depends on the revenue of a company. If you have a company with revenues topping 10 billion and you have like 50,000 workers, well, for sure the ratio is going to be high. Because most of those workers are probably going to be on the lower scale and with 10 billion revenue . . .
If you have a CEO with revenues of 50 million and like 100 workers in a very high tech field, then the ratio probably won't be so high.
- Put it this way, in the NFL in the US, Roger Goodell, basically the CEO/commissioner, makes 47 millionish a year. The revenue of the NFL is 13-15 billionish. His goal is to make the NFL the most money possible, hence they bullshit about the concussion issue, they try to change the game to fit the dynamic crowd. Hell, they stopped showing national anthem as it was probably the most profit maximizing decision they could have made. His decisions can make the NFL contract to 10 billion revenue or reach 20 billion revenue. You think any one position player in the NFL has even close to that much influence? The only reason his CEO to employee ratio isn't absurd is that the NFL has 2,000 important and highly paid employees (the players).
Also, the NFL owners, 32 multibillionaires who are all successful and probably a wee bit intelligent voted on his salary. You think these 32 owners are stupid for paying a CEO/commissioner that much? Or do you think they see the value in what a CEO/commissioner can do?
@Sovrath
The CEO shaving 15 million off of his salary will keep 800 employees on the dole for probably a couple months if that. Hence, it would solve nothing. It is altruistic but in the grand scheme of things, not overly helpful. I would guess the total severance package is more than 15 million. So he kind of doesn't have to.
@Hellscream
150k-200k is a lot of money in some areas and a bit above average in other areas. I live in California, it is expensive, i get nickled and dimed for everything. I do live a decently nice life style but I do feel economically strapped frequently but that's probably because of my wife . . . if I was single, than 150k would be way be rich.
@SBFord
I do wonder if DMKano blocked me for some reason. He never responds to things I post.
@anyone who blames stuff on millennials:
- It's a silly premise. Who raised them? Would older people be any different if they grew up in the internet age and social media era? I have a feeling humans have always been the same, the only difference now, is there's video/media that reports it all.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Why not base it on directly attributable action? Say the CEO clearly plays a large role in a profitable acquisition; I get it, a senior developer didn't contribute to that. But if a quality product is developed, leading to huge revenue by product sales... What makes that the sole purview of the CEO? In fact, if it's the product's individual quality that drove the sales, seems to me the lower level workers that were the hands on with said product is much more responsible, collectively, than the CEO who merely watched that team work.
where you can have 300 people making 100k a year, you instead have 1 guy (certainly not doing the work of 300) making 30mil and firing 800 local workers and then re-hiring people in Korea for a 10th of the price. that's what CEOs do. that's how you lose your good paying jobs.
i understand paying a CEO twice or 3 times a workers salary, but 200 or 300 times, or even more....that's just complete lunacy. even worse is when a company fails to make money and CEOs still get paid their ridiculous salaries.
the President of the united States make 400k a year for running the whole country. and these guys run just one or a hand full of companies and make 100+ times more......just madness.