• @DarkMessiah@lemmy.world
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    426 months ago

    If you wanted growth maybe you shouldn’t have killed your platform by drowning your customers with fucking fees to use it!

    I dunno, maybe they’ve got a plan; I’m no business student.

  • @mastefetri
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    They tried to appease the shareholders rapacious greed by changing their business model to include royalties and other random fees, but that failed so now they’ve laid off 25% of the workforce to free up a lot of cash short term. This is a desperation move and they’re never going to be able to provide the endless growth the shareholders demand. But the shareholders will be appeased for the next few months. So I guess it’s a win?

  • umbraroze
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    136 months ago

    “No no no! Of course we won’t fire people just before Christmas. That’d be evil. We’ll fire them after the holidays. Duh.”

    • A totally normal CEO
    • @AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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      -Sent from some tropical resort where I am “working” remotely, like I don’t let my employees do from their own homes.

  • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    116 months ago

    Hey, it could have been my company who laid off 200 people 2 weeks before Xmas. I actually respect that they let them enjoy the holidays and not add more stress and make it unenjoyable. Sucks all around but I would much rather the new year term over that…

  • @800XL@lemmy.world
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    66 months ago

    Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Who had on “long-term and profitable growth” on their Corporate America Bullshit Bingo card?

  • Pennomi
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    16 months ago

    Depends on who they fired… they were doing a lot of weird stuff unrelated to game engine development.

      • Pennomi
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        26 months ago

        I mean the old CEO did effectively get fired for it. The new CEO is fixing the problem, presumably.

        • Jaysyn
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          86 months ago

          The old CEO did exactly what the board asked him to & got his golden parachute as a reward for taking the flack.

    • @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      26 months ago

      I am sure they only fired the useless employees, they went looking for red staplers and people who forget the TPS cover sheet!

      /J