Comment on Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee

• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It might have been wiser, but seems to me we got to a point we should be thinking of the circumstances.

  Besides, that only would have solved their individual problem, IF they even managed it. The way the company is being run would remain the same. How it would impact all the people who rely on that engine would remain the same.

  It’s “never acceptable” to threaten someone, but intentionally ruining countless people’s livelihoods is “nothing personal”. Something is off about that.

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t just solve a company’s culture by yourself.

    You can either convince enough people to unionize, or you can save yourself.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Agreed but I can still understand the frustration.

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• xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is, but all we have right now is Unity’s claim that this is what happened. We don’t even know the content of the threat, who made it, why they made it. All of that context could cast this in a wildly different light. I am very suspicious of Unity the company’s motives here in saying this when we haven’t heard from anyone else.

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  • snek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it was the police who found out it was an employee.

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  • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How can this be cast in any light that’s not negative?

    Companies don’t just make up death threats.

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    • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They absolutely do when it benefits them and they think they can get away with it, I don’t know how you could make such a blanket claim without questioning yourself just a little bit.

      And of course it would be negative, but I think there’s a chance the claim casts a negative light on the company, and not on the employee, who is as yet unnamed. As it stands now, any of the following could be true:

      1. The entire story is fiction, made up by Unity to distract from literally everything else about them. Distractions are massively important to companies at times like this, and it’s almost like clockwork that you find them making up distractions when they can’t find a way to put a good spin on the press.
      2. There’s a real employee who posted something on social media, and it was a death threat. The death threat was about the current news. Bad employee, hope they see some consequences. I am doubting this right now because we don’t have any actual evidence of it, and because of point (1). Furthermore, the vagueness of this press announcement and the fact that “you wouldn’t know him, he works in another state” gives them cover . . .
      3. There’s a real employee who posted something negative on social media. It was not a death threat, and is being deliberately misconstrued by Unity to allow them to deploy point (1).
      4. There’s a real post on social media, deliberately planted by someone at Unity to create a distraction, see point (1).

      There’s more, and quite frankly it gets tiresome to see people jumping to defend when ploys like this have been the playbook for shitty companies since the invention of the company.

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