What an utter dick.
About as bad as the last company I worked at, a VP would say folks who were laid off were “promoted to customers”.
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.
I suggest violence
Oh I left before I was “promoted”. It was a hellish place and you’d definitely know the company if in North America.
Amazon? This was a running joke employees would say all the time.
Nope, but not shocking.
Wow. I’m sad this happens at more than one place.
I mean, if retail that is an improvement.
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.
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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.
That’s supposed to be good? That’s bare minimum.
Ai is going to bankrupt a lot of stupid business owners
The basics are still there: Food, Shelter, Water, Safety Fill one of those needs and forget about the fancy AI silliness.
Yes, before AI Fortnite was fulfilling one of those 4 basic needs, you’re right.
The person you’re replying to is trying to say you’ll be safer if you work for a company providing basic needs instead of something non-required, like gaming.
my company of 50 went down to 22 because of “AI productivity gainz” - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 10 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant “fire drills” to keep them happy.
Did management have anything to say? How was the dip in client retention measured?
EOY state of the Union report, 10Q reporting or whatever the eoy one is called.
Retention is the classic churn metric (lost/total)*100
We just started using it a couple of weeks ago, I’m expecting this very same scenario.
So he’s…bragging about losing talent???
Also a stream of game programmers learning basic security concepts and transitioning into cybercrime too hopefully.
They can start with companies they know inner-workings of.
I need to meet some of them and team up.
i’m surprised stories like these haven’t been all over the news with constant tech layoffs
He manages to toot his own horn and be completely tone-deaf in a single sentence.
Everytime this dirt bag speaks, I wish I had more Epic accounts to cancel.
Just pirate their shit.
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.
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”
When you live in society, you should obey the laws OR fight to change them. Pirating stuff is a weak form of protest.
…are you serious?
You’re clearly upset with the leadership of your country. How does piracy change anything?
not pay money better than pay money
I don’t really do it as a “protest”, I do it because I do not respect the law and because being a criminal is cool, but corporations are “leadership of [my] country” and anything that deprives them of any money at all is an effective protest.
Let’s take the absolutely-totally-hypothetical example of pirating Star Trek: Strange New Worlds instead of getting a subscription for Paramount Plus. Paramount is owned by the Ellisons, and Larry Ellison is closer to “leadership of [my] country” than anyone sitting in the White House.
so he cant get my $8 per month or whatever, that’ll show him
- 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.
- 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.
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The worst part of job hunting was tailoring your reaume to match a job posting for each job…just to try and get by the AI filters and get humans to look at it.
Once i learned how to fool most HR filters, i started to get calls from companies.
Its all a fucking game
Care to share?
Same here. Is it just listing a bunch of keywords?
What i did was eliminate a bunch of stuff that did not relatebto the position first. E.g. ai does not care you volunteer at a food shelter if the job is for carpentry.
Dont include it if the position doesnt require it.
E.g. dont put “proficient in Word” unless the request states “candidate must be proficienr in wors”. Also if they ask for someone proficient in mail merging welcome letters from names in ms access… then put exactly that on the C.V.Dont just list software you know…parrot their requests back at them…thisis what i mean about tailoring the reaume to the position.
I went with skills first, Then a list of companies for work history without explaining what i did there except for 1 position that seemex to want a list of accomplishments at a previous job.
Extras tha might help come last.
Just the facts, leave the talking points for the interview. Thats the time to bring up your food shelter volunteer work.
Match the job requests in the CV to get past the non human filters first.
“I have optimized the streamlined AI driven deep learning model to predict our maximum net ROI for our start up company.”
“I did linear regression to predict sales next month”
Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.
He needs to be dropped into a deep well and forgotten.
Honestly, I do respect the decision to publicly declare that the laid off employees were very good. I’ve done job searching while laid off and it does suck the suspicion through which you’re viewed by interviewers when they ask about it
If they’re so talented and experienced, then why’d you fire them for no reason? Surely the company expects to continue growing and will need more employees, not fewer.
The EGO on this man “because I hired all of these people, they’re amazing. Pay no attention to the fact that I had to lay 1k of them off due to poor planning.”
