CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs

After the bean-counters had their say in the release during COVID it's clear that the developers were the one to really pay for this misguided launch; it took years for it to get CP2077 right and luckily the franchise is doing better than ever. hey just announced a live action movie, after having done the expansion and the anime did well and increased the awareness.

All gaming is a meat-grinder, and much like TV.Movies, has tons of applicants for every spot: CDPR has been doing incredibly well since the launch so the layoffs must have been a slap in the face after an immense turn-around. Uninization here is not just justified, but seems entirely sound: they built other franchises and want to focus on that next, from the sound of things, so rather than let greed and short-nearsightedness dictate actions perhaps it is best they had more say in it's internal operation.

Re: CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs

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Post by barrysteve » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 5:36 AM UTC

cjtrowbridge wrote: post #2

Good. Every workplace should be a union workplace.

Remind me to never work with you.

Re: CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs

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Post by derelicta » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 6:31 AM UTC

barrysteve wrote: post #6

cjtrowbridge wrote: post #2

Good. Every workplace should be a union workplace.

Remind me to never work with you.

Found the one cheering for greedy megacorps. Hope they might see your comments I presume and send you a check?

Re: CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs

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Post by Abby0 » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 8:52 AM UTC

barrysteve wrote: post #6

cjtrowbridge wrote: post #2

Good. Every workplace should be a union workplace.

Remind me to never work with you.

Reminder of comments/discussion etiquette:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs

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Post by barrysteve » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 9:06 AM UTC

Abby0 wrote: post #8

barrysteve wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remind me to never work with you.

Reminder of comments/discussion etiquette: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair. I apologize. My point remains though.

If he wants to lock work down to unions, the exact-opposite mirror comment... is to say 'as your peer and equal, I'm not going to work with unionists'.

Individual freedom is severly curtailed by unions.

Bad management is a cost worth paying to have individual freedom, sorry.

Re: CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs

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Post by valdiorn » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 10:06 AM UTC

derelicta wrote: post #7

barrysteve wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remind me to never work with you.

Found the one cheering for greedy megacorps. Hope they might see your comments I presume and send you a check?

Or he's quite capable of negotiating his own salary.

I personally agree; I don't want a unionized job. It doesn't work for me.

It's a net benefit on average, but I'm an aggressive negotiator, and I out-earn my industry, and I know how to squeeze big bonuses out of my employers. So a union would have a negative effect on my ability to earn.