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Riot Games is currently in the process of informing some 530 staff, or 11% of its work force that they no longer have a job.

Making the news worse for the staff than it already is they found out via a press release and Twitter before their employer told them.

In an email sent to staff company CEO Dylan Jadeja said “our guiding principle is to do our very best to make sure we’re treating Rioters with respect and grace”.

Maybe informing the staff before social media and the press would have been a better idea if they truly cared about their “respect and grace.”

Staff are currently awaiting emails to inform them if their position is safe or not.

Riot Games joins an already worryingly long list of developers to let staff go this year, and it’s only the 22nd of January.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What the fuck is going on in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Global recession, lenders are drying up, the belts are tightening and corps are sacrificing employees to maintain posting record profits.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

No is not, Biden told me we are good here in the US

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Many companies overexpanded with all the money they harvested in the pandemic. Now they're hemorrhaging cash and are trying to fix it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe the CEOs and shareholders should return their yatchs and private planes and Malibu mansions before just fucking firing people out of the blue. What the shit world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

We both know they'll never give it up willingly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Class warfare.

This is how the upper class thinks https://jacobin.com/2023/09/tim-gurner-capitalists-neoliberalism-unemployment-precarity. "We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment needs to jump 40-50 percent, in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago
  1. dick move
  2. 'emails' sounds as dumb as 'traffics'. Get better.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

After turning their games into rootkits I'm honestly not surprised they would pull shit like this lol

Anybody willing to install this spyware deserves the company (and let's be honest, community) culture

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Y'all keep supporting these shitty companies.