Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp
dandroid@dandroid.app 9 months agoPeople are losing their jobs. Their families are going to be in serious distress. I don’t wish layoffs on anyone.
Having been through a few myself… it sucks but you plan for it. Technology is rapidly changing. If you’re employed at a tech company you need to plan to be at another I’ve shortly because the companies implode quickly as the technology evolves.
You adapt or you don’t. There’s nothing sad about it, it’s the way it is.
The reason they’re going through layoffs is because they hired unsustainably and chose to do layoffs instead of reducing salaries. This is something that is far more often avoided with democratically owned and community driven projects like Godot, or even better, worker cooperatives and unionised workplaces, where e.g. Mandrogon chose to be more careful, and unionised auto-workers in Germany chose a temporary pay-cut during a recession to avoid having to fire people.
I’m not happy that these people got fired, but there’s a systemic problem here and Godot and other democratic structures of ownership help to alleviate that
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Man, Gamers™ get fuckin’ vicious when it comes to things like this that make them click different icons than the ones they like. It’s pretty gross.