sanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe gaming industry is truly messed up…lemmy.todayimagemessage-square66linkfedilinkarrow-up1613arrow-down12
arrow-up1611arrow-down1imageThe gaming industry is truly messed up…lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square66linkfedilink
minus-squareFluorideMind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·22 hours agoThis will/has become the norm. Finish a project, lay off 60% of the team, skeleton crew keeps crunching fixes, pay the suits the profit and wages saved.
minus-squareSoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·22 hours agoAnd it would stop immediately if those workers had solidarity and refused to work on the project without the full team.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 hours agoMaybe. Or maybe companies like EA would implode under their own dysfunction and leave a multi-billion dollar hole in the industry for China to fill. A lot of American companies do seem willing to commit suicide before they pay their workers equitably
minus-squaregreen_link@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·20 hours agolike a union. almost as if unions were created to protect the working class in the first place from these fat cats doing excatly this
This will/has become the norm. Finish a project, lay off 60% of the team, skeleton crew keeps crunching fixes, pay the suits the profit and wages saved.
And it would stop immediately if those workers had solidarity and refused to work on the project without the full team.
Maybe. Or maybe companies like EA would implode under their own dysfunction and leave a multi-billion dollar hole in the industry for China to fill.
A lot of American companies do seem willing to commit suicide before they pay their workers equitably
like a union. almost as if unions were created to protect the working class in the first place from these fat cats doing excatly this