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Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, I'm missing something. What does World of Warcraft have in common with Microsoft?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft purchased Blizzard.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

🤯

I must have been under a rock.

No wonder they were able to unionize so quickly. And I bet they had to, knowing Microsoft's track record.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Being under the ActiBlizzard umbrella wasn't exactly a walk in the park for a lot of employees either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don't even know it there's a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a strange form of Stockholm Syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

And they paid $69 billion, which is the dumb joke amount Elon initially said he'd pay for Twitter, but these dorks actually did it