I have a friend who was part of their 1900 layoff shortly after acquiring Blizzard in 2024. Basically, brought into a meeting and then no more job.
She learned last week that every single person who remained in her former group except one had been laid off in this last round. We’re talking about people who had been with Blizzard for years and years and had been happy with their jobs and loved even playing the games that they were making. Just poof! Gone.
The layoffs have been asinine enough, but the completely tone-deaf response from one of their leaders saying “use AI to help with the trauma of job loss” has just been the icing on the cake.
The message was probably in poor taste but i fell like people though he meant use it as a therapist, but he just said use it to improve resume, or reach out to network. so basically a proofreader to reduce the amount of work you have to do.
I have a friend who was part of their 1900 layoff shortly after acquiring Blizzard in 2024. Basically, brought into a meeting and then no more job.
She learned last week that every single person who remained in her former group except one had been laid off in this last round. We’re talking about people who had been with Blizzard for years and years and had been happy with their jobs and loved even playing the games that they were making. Just poof! Gone.
The layoffs have been asinine enough, but the completely tone-deaf response from one of their leaders saying “use AI to help with the trauma of job loss” has just been the icing on the cake.
no way
https://aftermath.site/xbox-microsoft-layoffs-ai-prompt-chatgpt-matt
Man… I really want to kick this guy right in the dick.
The message was probably in poor taste but i fell like people though he meant use it as a therapist, but he just said use it to improve resume, or reach out to network. so basically a proofreader to reduce the amount of work you have to do.