We get articles like this
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs
Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week. While Microsoft is primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted by the cuts.
It’s always sad to hear someone lose their job. My unpopular opinion is that it needed to happen.
I work in corporate where the culture is so bad that you need a purge. Managers protecting bad employees. Toxic people getting promotions by playing office politics. Good employees fail to get recognition.
I’m not saying all 1900 people “got what’s coming to them”. Many may be very excellent humans, and losing your job sucks.
My extremely unpopular view from where I sit is that Blizzard Activision has for the past decade, continued to fall deeper and deeper into shitty-ness. And this shake up should have been done years ago.
I was the first one to point out that all we have is speculation/conjecture. You were the one to anoint your own conjecture as some kind of ultra-obvious fact. I could absolutely be wrong. I’ll admit that now, just like I admitted it inside my own comment.
Basically, neither of us should really be trying to make any calls about the situation, until (as you point out) there is some kind of real data about the whole layoff situation.
My appeal to logic is flawed because it assumes corporations will behave rationally. That’s not really a given. Your appeal to cynicism is flawed because it’s just based on everyone nodding along and saying “yesssss, corporations bad. Office politics bad.”
That’s really all I’m saying.