Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
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Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#2Link to the spreadsheet?
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#3Link to the spreadsheet?
Presumably it's on an internal server and not public.
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#4Some producers and engineers at Blizzard can make well over $100,000 a year, but others, such as video game testers and customer-service representatives, are often paid minimum wage or close to it.
It's about time this conversation entered the mainstream. It should go farther though — why shouldn't we all be able to buy Lambos or Teslas for the price of a Honda? Or, for that matter, Google shares for the price of GE?
Does no one understand modern monetary theory?
:clap: Just :clap: print : clap: the :clap: damn :clap: money.
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#5Whenever the topic of sharing salary information comes up I always bring up the algorithm for figuring out the average salary for a group of people without anyone learning anyone else’s exact salary:
Say you have 10 people sitting at a round table. Person 1 picks up a piece of paper and on it writes a sum of their salary + randInt(100_000, 10_000_000) remembering what the initial random number was. We can call this number the seed. They then pass the piece of paper to the right and person 2 reads the number, adds their salary and writes that number on a new piece of paper that they pass to person 3. Finally when person 10 hands the paper to person 1, person 1 subtracts the seed from the final number then divides that value by the number of people. That gives you the mean salary of the group.
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#6Some producers and engineers at Blizzard can make well over $100,000 a year, but others, such as video game testers and customer-service representatives, are often paid minimum wage or close to it. It's about time this conversation entered the mainstream. It should go farther though — why shouldn't we all be able to buy Lambos or Teslas for the price of a Honda? Or, for that matter, Google shares for the price of GE?…
The video game industry takes advantage of young people who have dreams of making video games, and think that suffering through terribly paying jobs is the way to make that happen. That illusion gives cover to the industry to perpetuate terrible working conditions by abusing low paying employees and then having new young people replace them. There isn't accountability when companies do not pay a penalty for the treatment of their staff.
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#7Some producers and engineers at Blizzard can make well over $100,000 a year, but others, such as video game testers and customer-service representatives, are often paid minimum wage or close to it. It's about time this conversation entered the mainstream. It should go farther though — why shouldn't we all be able to buy Lambos or Teslas for the price of a Honda? Or, for that matter, Google shares for the price of GE?…
Just printing money is a great way to end up with runaway inflation and a worthless currency.
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#8Whenever the topic of sharing salary information comes up I always bring up the algorithm for figuring out the average salary for a group of people without anyone learning anyone else’s exact salary: Say you have 10 people sitting at a round table. Person 1 picks up a piece of paper and on it writes a sum of their salary + randInt(100_000, 10_000_000) remembering what the initial random number was. We can call this n…
It’s also important to note that in the US sharing salary data is protected by federal law no matter what your employee agreement says.
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#9I boycotted Blizzard after their censorship regarding Hong Kong. It was a great decision since it saved me from the dumpster fire to end all dumpster fires that was Warcraft III Reforged [1]. I would strongly suggest that if anything about Blizzard pisses you off, just be done with them entirely. The people who created the great games of the past don't work there. Blizzard is no longer capable of producing good products, and has no purpose other than to suck every last penny out of the existing IP.
[1] https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/warcraft-iii-reforged
Re: Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities
#10Whenever the topic of sharing salary information comes up I always bring up the algorithm for figuring out the average salary for a group of people without anyone learning anyone else’s exact salary: Say you have 10 people sitting at a round table. Person 1 picks up a piece of paper and on it writes a sum of their salary + randInt(100_000, 10_000_000) remembering what the initial random number was. We can call this n…
This is a good algorithm, but depends on using actual exact figures rather than rounded values and a secure RNG source of the nonce.