sanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe gaming industry is truly messed up…lemmy.todayexternal-linkmessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up1633arrow-down12
arrow-up1631arrow-down1external-linkThe gaming industry is truly messed up…lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square69linkfedilink
minus-squareFluorideMind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months 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-up15·2 months agoAnd it would stop immediately if those workers had solidarity and refused to work on the project without the full team.
minus-squaregreen_link@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months 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
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months 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
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.
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
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