It appears that Bungie is undergoing a series of layoffs this week, in addition to those that occurred in the last few weeks.
this was my home. I feel lost.
Sucks that they lost their job. But this is why you don’t make your place of business your home. That attitude is how many companies get away with low pay and long hours. Bet Bungie told her that they are a family. She will quickly find out that the friends she made at the company were only friends of convenience. Especially the ones that still work there. Most of them will stop talking to her.
This is why you shop around after every 4 years or so or after every release and look for better pay. And yes sometimes it means getting a job outside gaming. And make sure you have a social life outside work and build relationships with people that aren’t colleagues.
I understand that sometimes shit happens and you need to fire some people for the company to survive and protect the other jobs, but layoffs should be a measure twice cut once affair. This kind of thing shows management is winging it and there should be a law to put these companies under court management before the idiots bankrupt them.
If you want the company survive then you need to cut excess spending. Most excess spending is at the top. Executives are a big waste of money. They never fire themselves or cut their own pay. No. They fire those who actually contribute value and then expect their peers to do twice the work for the same pay.
I just talked to my manager about largely the same thing, and apparently there are a ton of legal issues, so it's generally a lot easier to just lay off entire departments than try to distinguish between good and bad employees. For example, if one of the people you selected happens to be a minority, but you selected them because they underperform, you need to prove in court that it wasn't motivated at all by their minority status.
I'm guessing that's what happened here. They laid off good and bad employees because it's a lot easier (and probably cheaper in the long run) to shut down departments than deal with lawsuits.
Lots of anti-corp stuff here and trust me I get it. But people at Bungie have been there for a decade or more. It's apparently a very welcoming environment. So much so that people would come out as gay or trans to their coworkers before their own family members because they knew their coworkers would be more accepting. When you have that kind of community with that kind of longevity losing it sucks no matter what the reason, even if that reason is upper management is incompetent.
Speaking of upper management incompetence though, I recently interviewed at Bungie for one of their many open positions. I made it all the way to the final interview stages before they closed the req without filling it. All the other reqs closed up too. And now this. To go from hiring like crazy to layoffs reaks of incompetence.
Never have loyalty to corporations. They are not your friends they are your exploiters
No. One's colleagues and peers deserve respect and loyalty (so long as they reciprocate). But not the bosses.