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Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

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Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

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>Insult QA Blizzard, if you weren't dead to me already, you now are.

Pretty much every game company has always insulted QA, it's a major problem in the industry.

Among my favorite games is Factorio, which seems to have a lot of tests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXnyTZBmfXM

Re: Blizzard Infuriate Devs, End Remote Work, Cut Profit Sharing Bonus, Insult QA

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Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance. This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have promising products shipping in the near future.

In this scenario the highest achieving employees will be the ones that will quit first, as they will be in the most demand and therefore have the most options.

Yeah, I keep having this discussion with random leaders and the general impression is 'if you don't like it, leave' vibe. The companies and their leadership clearly feel emboldened by the recession prospects ( I already heard 'great layoff' term ). I am annoyed by this, but a lot will depend on whether people call their bluff. So far.. all the RTO plans failed, but a lot is going to happen between now and June.
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