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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Imagine doing something so terrible that your own workers want to kill you

[-] LiberalScratcher@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I can imagine an entire nation where this is true at most workplaces.

Pretty rare anyone says it explicitly tho

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Uncritical support

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago
[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

This is very cool and executives should get more death threats

Fun fact: Unity pays its top 5 executives a combined $120.000.000 a year in return for being the most incompetent imbeciles around.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago
[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good. Although this person will now be fired, which hurts potential benefits they could have brought to it. Someone this mad should have been organising.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Do you mind elaborating on "organizing" a bit? I work in software dev and feel like this whole industry is being run by Unity CEOs, so it's possible I'll end up in a similar position to this employee. Are we talking unionizing engineers, etc?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends on the internals but generally speaking anyone this mad could/should get themselves involved with an org that's got experience unionising and work with them. There are a lot of different strategies emerging for tech teams now but they all depend on the internals at the company. Salts within the support and QA teams have worked well though and there is knock-on influence within companies (particularly in tech) when these teams seek unionisation because there's usually a tonne of social crossover between them and the other departments. In videogames in particular it's actually so exploitative that I've seen people at the entry-level living 5 or 6 to a house all working the same company.

The main thing here is to get in touch with an org that's had success in the specific industry you're in and get help.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Well, they do hire people who 'Go Bold' I'd say this is pretty fucking bold https://blog.unity.com/community/want-to-work-at-unity-heres-how-our-hiring-process-works

But also they say users first so idk, this whole ordeal isn't very users first of them.

[-] Civility@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago
[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Good for them. Uncritical support

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I'm out of the loop: what is unity doing?

[-] Goadstool@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Short version is they're making it so every time someone does a fresh install of a game made in Unity, Unity is going to charge the developer. It's preposterously insidious and incredibly bad for indie devs.

[-] utopologist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Here's a good article about Unity going down the shitter: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity

The most recent debacle is that Unity announced that developers will have to pay a fee every time a game is installed. This seems to include re-installs or pirated installs as well.

[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago
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