Bungie layoffs have me seeing red, man! This whole fuckin year! Companies clear-cutting their workforces in flailing attempts to balance the books, peoples' lives disrupted in incalculable ways on the c-suite's whim. No loyalty, no sustainability, no hope of ever actually building a stable career, a stable life. Fuck this
EDIT WITH MORE THOUGHTS: Maybe this is naive or whatever but it feels like there aren't any rules any more. No structure. It doesn't matter where you work or what you do. There isn't any pathway where you're hired to do a job at a company, you make meaningful & unique contributions in your job for a period of time, your contributions are recognized and rewarded with increased pay and promotions, and over time you become a respected and valuable senior in your field with years of institutional knowledge that you can impart to new passionate hires. That doesn't fucking happen any more! What happens instead is every "senior" hire is some dickhead from a semi-related tech field who just happens to know your boss's boss, while people with actual senior-level skills labor away in obscure junior positions for 4% annual raises (if that). What happens instead is even if you DO manage to hang on and prove yourself valuable enough that you land significant pay increases, you're first to be axed in the next round of layoffs because a limp-dick MBA at head office looked at a spreadsheet and saw that your number was highest. What happens instead is that the only semi-viable pathway to any kind of genuine career advancement comes in the form of a labyrinthine series of lateral job-hops every 2-3 years and most of the time this doesn't even work!! So many peoples' livelihoods depend on the passing fancies of toddler-brained CEOs whose ability to empathize with other humans has long since been excised and replaced with glassy-eyed gambling addictions. Fuck this, fuck them, and most of all fuck studio owners who sell their studios and place the employees who trusted them at the mercy of the gaggle of prep school Patrick Batemans currently gutting this industry
