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Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by ars »

pc86 wrote: post #47
CamperBob2 wrote: post #28

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Good riddance. I don't want antivax nutcases on my healthcare team. They picked the wrong profession.

It's insane to me that this got downvoted. Medical exemptions are a thing. If you truly can't receive a certain vaccine, you should still be allowed to get whatever job you want. But I'm sorry, if you "don't believe in" vaccines in general, or certain specific vaccines that have - for reasons passing all comprehension - become extremely political, you should not be a healthcare provider.

It would be one thing if the covid vaccine actually worked well, but it doesn't. It kind of works, but not especially well.

Even worse is people who actually got covid, yet they want them to get a vaccine, which is rather pointless for them. Places with that particular policy demonstrate they don't care about science, they care about obedience to authority.

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Post by JadeNB »

Gigachad wrote: post #55
squeaky-clean wrote: post #45

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That kind of demonstrates the importance and value of a good CEO though. A couple dumb decisions by an assembly worker won't kill a company. A few bad decisions by a CEO can.

I think most job salaries can be linked directly to how much of a difference the employee can make. A complete dud at McDonalds in the kitchen might cost a few thousand on average but the further you go up, the greater the damage or benefit potential gets.

> I think most job salaries can be linked directly to how much of a difference the employee can make.

I think that the world's, or at least the US's, teachers are a glaring counterexample.

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Post by dahart »

Kapura wrote: post #60
Waterluvian wrote: post #56

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But they might be right this time. Many game devs are fungible cogs, implementing a well-defined blueprint. Especially Activision games like Call of Duty. It doesn’t help that there’s just so many devs these days that they can seemingly abuse them for decades and nothing has collapsed.

if you'd ever worked on a call of duty you'd realize how foolish a statement this is.

Try not to take it personally, there are both devs who are replaceable and devs who aren’t, and with ~40 Call of Duty titles on almost as many platforms, a million and one people have worked on it, some doing more mechanical port work than others. There’s truth in there; the games industry is tough, and it’s relevant that some studios that (for example) demand lots of overtime haven’t seen any large exodus, or sometimes there is high turnover and the studio still survives, to parent’s point. There’s a higher level layer to this, that from a publisher’s point of view, there are a lot of smaller studios that are easily replaceable, and I’d speculate studios go out of business over contracts lost to other studios far more often than over employee walkouts (which of course fuels the need for overtime to be competitive). This is true for games and for VFX production in the US, enough people want these jobs that high turnover doesn’t seem to slow the business.

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Post by neatze »

aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #85
neatze wrote: post #64

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Seems like you're speaking out of turn, and trying to pile in on some sort of weird meritless gatekeeping without doing any basic research first: https://github.com/ablakey

The reason I said this is because of "implementing a well-defined blueprint" it just compelled me to say something, I am not expert developer by any means,but it is like saying to a degree; paintings are all same because most of them use same colors, arguably writing prototype code is simple, but fixing bugs and tuning everything so game is fun and fluid is where hard part is.

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Post by smeagull »

Waterluvian wrote: post #56
denkmoon wrote: post #43

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Ironically however modern day Activision has the exact same attitude of Atari that caused their founding.

But they might be right this time. Many game devs are fungible cogs, implementing a well-defined blueprint. Especially Activision games like Call of Duty. It doesn’t help that there’s just so many devs these days that they can seemingly abuse them for decades and nothing has collapsed.

Their games are fungible too.

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by vaidhy »

refurb wrote: post #96
CamperBob2 wrote: post #28

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Good riddance. I don't want antivax nutcases on my healthcare team. They picked the wrong profession.

Easy to say that until people are dying because you fired desperately needed healthcare workers. Across Canada they changed the rules and now Covid positive healthcare workers can now have direct patient interactions . https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-may-allow-some-covid-positive-heal... Apparently they can fire people who won't get vaccinated, but are willing to have Covid-positive doctors treat patients? Something doesn'…

What you said is not what the link says.it specifically says in appropriate places with appropriate protection when it is aympotomatic. You are projecting here. Nowhere does it say direct patient interaction.. in fact it says the opposite that healthcare workers who are sick (whether of covid or something else) should not be near patients.

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Post by Bakary »

replwoacause wrote: post #109
andrewinardeer wrote: post #91

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This is the first time I have encountered the word 'pandemic' being shortened to 'pando' either online or meat space.

This is the first time I have encountered the word meat space.

It's a very dated expression

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Post by ROTMetro »

MikeF_323 wrote: post #3

Borland. I worked there up until the mid 90s and then was recruited by Microsoft. They picked off all the great talent leaving barely any competent engineers left. I alongside a ton of other engineers were wined and dined and given a hell of an offer we couldn't refuse. It was insane, I should write a book honestly. I miss those days, it was the wild west of tech.

Was the "Microsoft limo parked across the street waiting for people to come out on their breaks" true or just a rumor at the time?

Re: Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

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Post by smeagull »

metadat wrote: post #62

Not too long ago, I worked for a pre-IPO "startup" with ~2,000 total employees. Over the course of a few months, the core of engineering (based in Bay Area) was gutted by a FAANG, out of retribution, because said startup had poached some key employees from the FAANG. After I left as part of the exodus wave, I learned there was an "unlimited" $30+ million dollar extra budget for hiring employees from the startup, lol.…

This sounds like a vulnerability in that company. So a group of their employees can leave to form a "start-up" and get more money by coming back?
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