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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people

https://lemmy.world/post/44749593

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people - Lemmy.World

What an utter dick.

Mar 26 at 12:56amWeb
Show threadplythMar 26
Should have kept the employees and offered them as consultants, packaged as loot boxes.
Show threadTheReanuKeevesMar 26
Lmao, Rate the ex employees common to legendary and sell them off loot crate style
Show threadNONEMar 26

This is the type of “dickery” that surpasses all measurements, the one that is, honest to god, trying to be nice.

In short, he’s really, REALLY stupid.

Show threadterabyterexMar 26
by giving them 6 months of severrnce, extended health care?
Show threadGoodeye8Mar 26

You don’t even get why he’s being called stupid but let’s address what you said first. Would you rather get a 6 months severance and a very little opportunities to get rehired is almost impossible or keep your current job? Unless you’re stupid you’d rather keep your job. The 6 months severance with health care doesn’t matter when you’re being thrown overboard.

And he’s being called stupid because he’s throwing people overboard to keep his ship going and he’s trying to pass it off as “they’ll survive” like he’s done nothing wrong. He’d genuinely would look smarter if he just shut the fuck up and take the layoff criticisms on the chin. But you know, much like Randy Pitchford, Sweeney loves to put his foot in his mouth.

Show threadterabyterexMar 26

i agree he shouldnt talk but keeping the job isnt an option. the reason every company is laying iff is because the economy is a disaster. ii sucks but a bunch of dumb fucks elected their king dumbfuck and the country is basically bankrupt. and for all the stupid things tim sweeny saus he has called out every company for bending the knee to trump.

he is letting people go not for fun but because theu cant afford them. his comment is stupid but if we were all being honest and not emotional reactionaries, you can see that this guy who is awkward on his best day , is trying to say that these people arent being let go for poor performance.

Show threadGoodeye8Mar 26
It’s his job to navigate the company through this shit economy and he failed at his job. But his failure is put on the 1000 people who got laid off while he gets to continue sitting in his little castle acting like there was nothing he could do. If you want to ride his dick go ahead, I’ve got no sympathy for a failure who didn’t learn the first time around (because it’s not even 3 years from the last layoffs) and suffers no consequences for his failure.
Show threadapplebuschMar 26
Why does a capitalist apologist pop up every time people point out their shitty behavior? In fact he didn’t have to lay a bunch of people off, he could have cut costs in other ways, such as, oh idk, his own ridiculous pay package. These people only fucking care about themselves. They would sell you out for a cup of coffee. Why do you insist on running interference for them and whitewashing their greedy antisocial behavior?
Show threadNONEMar 26
The fact that he is complying with the workers’ contract has nothing to do with the fact that his comment, and by extension he himself, is stupid.
Show threadchunesMar 26
That’s supposed to be good? That’s bare minimum.
Show threadmarighostMar 26
Oh yeah Timmy? Who’s hiring them in this industry, let alone this economy? Go fuck yourself.
Show threadSaharaMaleikuhmMar 26
Roblox? It’s about the same thing as Fortnite, is it not?
Show threadstarchylemmingMar 26
a yes the child molester playground provider
Show threadNeryKMar 26
He manages to toot his own horn and be completely tone-deaf in a single sentence.
Show threadsudoMakeUserMar 26
He doesn’t say that they’re good quality. Just, once in a lifetime quality. Interpretation is up the reader.
Show threadDeestanMar 26
Combined with “…so we fired them on the spot”, this should count as defamation.
Show threadredditmademedoitMar 26
A lot of big tech companies have just said the people fired suck (I.e calling it “performance based layoffs) to hide that they’ve needed to hit the brake hard.
Show threadthingsiplayMar 26
Show threadapfelwoiSchoppenMar 26
About as bad as the last company I worked at, a VP would say folks who were laid off were “promoted to customers”.
Show threadQuazatronMar 26
I do hope there’s a special place in hell for people like this, where they are spanked for all eternity with a soup spoon.
Show threadSCmSTRMar 26
I suggest violence
Show threadapfelwoiSchoppenMar 26
Oh I left before I was “promoted”. It was a hellish place and you’d definitely know the company if in North America.
Show threadcriss_crossMar 26
Amazon? This was a running joke employees would say all the time.
Show threadapfelwoiSchoppenMar 27
Nope, but not shocking.
Show threadcriss_crossMar 27
Wow. I’m sad this happens at more than one place.
Show threadWolfmanEightySixMar 27
“Amazon pays more cause it expects more”. Like fucking 20p more.
Show threadFartMaster69Mar 27
I mean, if retail that is an improvement.
Show threadedgemaster72Mar 26

employers LLM screening bots will see (and swiftly reject) a stream of résumés (regardless) of once-in-a-lifetime quality

Show threadAshtearMar 26
It really didn’t take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.
Show threadpotoooooooo ✅️Mar 26
I missed the memo there was goodwill.
Show threadJankatarchMar 26
Also a sudden surge in game programmers learning some security concepts and transitioning into cybercrime too hopefully.
Show threadramenshamanMar 26
I need to meet some of them and team up.
Show threadhypnicjerkMar 27
i’m surprised stories like these haven’t been all over the news with constant tech layoffs
Show threadLemmyngMar 26
Nah, Lil’ Timmy, your former employees are about to see a “stream of blood”.
Show threadwiaMar 26
He needs to be dropped into a deep well and forgotten.
Show threadQuazatronMar 26
Everytime this dirt bag speaks, I wish I had more Epic accounts to cancel.
Show threadTattorackMar 26
Just pirate their shit.
Show threadQuazatronMar 26

Not my cup of tea, for a number of reasons:

  • from a security standpoint, I would have a very high probability of downloading something nasty;
  • from a legal standpoint, authorities frown upon such behaviour;
  • from a moral standpoint, people who produce games should be payed;
  • from a personal standpoint, I don’t like any of their games.
    • Show thread7101334Mar 26

    from a legal standpoint, authorities frown upon such behaviour;

    🤡 “the people who molest and murder children on islands wouldn’t like it if I got something for free, so I won’t”

    Show threadQuazatronMar 26
    When you live in society, you should obey the laws OR fight to change them. Pirating stuff is a weak form of protest.
    Show thread7101334Mar 26
    …are you serious?
    Show threadQuazatronMar 26
    You’re clearly upset with the leadership of your country. How does piracy change anything?
    Show thread7101334Mar 27
    not pay money better than pay money
    Show threadTattorackMar 26
  • It’s not the Limewire days anymore. While it’s not risk free, if you hang about piracy for even a little bit you’ll quickly pick up an idea of who the trusted sources are.
  • Why would you care?
  • The ones making the games aren’t the ones you’re paying. Only the IP holders. If you’re concerned about paying the actual developers, then sticking with indie games is your only option. Not that that’s a problem; indies have come with far better quality and interesting ideas for quite some time now.
  • Neither do I, so fair enough.
    • Show threadQuazatronMar 26
  • There’s always a risk, especially with such a desirable bait. If you have no problem with having your system be part of a botnet (or worse), go right ahead.
  • I care. When you are responsible for other people, getting hit with a large fine or jail time is not an option.
  • Part of the price goes to the developers. Not as much as in indies, but that’s life. That does not justify pirating stuff.
  • At least we agree on something.
    • Show threadterabyterexMar 26
    how is he a dirtbag? he gave incredible severence packages and dumbas op cherry picked a comment.
    Show threadP03 LockeMar 26
    Show threadValmondMar 26

    Ugh, he’s not epic.

    Shouldn’t it be Epics?

    Show threadEyck_of_denesleMar 26
    A little irrelevant but I saw a reel saying Tim saves Amazon forests with his own money. Apparently he has bought a lot of land there only for the sole purpose of saving Amazon. Can anyone fact check this?
    Show threadMurrayLMar 26
    I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.
    Show threadForeverComicalMar 26
    Is it that thing where people get paid for not cutting the forest down?
    Show threadParlimentOfDoomMar 26

    Yes. Greenwashing. You pay someone who wasn’t going to cut their trees to keep not cutting their trees, and you get carbon credits to offset your company’s pollution.

    You change nothing but get to brag about saving the world.

    Show thread7101334Mar 26

    Piggybacking on this to say the vast majority of “a tree planted for every _______” schemes are also greenwashing bullshit, including Ecosia if I’m not mistaken.

    Most plant monocrops with no regard for how a natural, healthy forest functions and generally take no care to make sure the trees actually reach maturity or even adolescence.

    There are exceptions, some companies who actually do it right (though carbon credits are a bullshit poison concept regardless), but I imagine most big companies use the corner-cutting options.

    Show threadfakeman_pretendnameMar 26
    Apparently he bought it so he can steal endangered animals and make them fight in a “death arena” in his back garden. Please don’t fact check this, just accept it is true.
    Show threadMBechMar 26
    Wouldn’t be the first time though.
    Show threadsp3ctr4lMar 27
    Tim Sweeney: Tiger King, Season 3.
    Show threadKazumaraMar 26

    Can anyone fact check this

    You could?

    But I guess I will.

    I can’t find any good source for him having bought Amazon forest. However he seems to be buying and donating wooded land in the Appalachians.

    treehugger.com/fortnite-founder-sweeney-invests-m…

    www.citizen-times.com/story/news/…/93443704/

    thegamer.com/fortnite-creator-epic-founder-time-s…

    timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/129589611.cms

    appalachian.org/sahc-south-yellow-mountain-preser…

    In that last one he is being thanked for a particularly large land donation.

    Show threadTaleyaMar 26
    So he’s…bragging about losing talent???
    Show threadSpacehooksMar 26
    Seriously I got the best top ppl and letting them go is not the message you want to have.
    Show threadwewbullMar 26

    Living it right now. Me: “We’ve sold off or had resignations from ¾ of our engineering” Boss: “We’ll rebuild”.

    Also Boss: “Our value is in our people”.