Fun fact: Ubisoft already has not one, but three of the 14 people in the board of directors who are employee representatives (one of them specifically for the employees who also are shareholder, which means most of the company).My God some of those demands : a seat at the board, cross-industry blacklisting, automatic canceling of "offenders" (I imagine due process would be "violence" against "victims")...
Several top people was fired or left the company since the shitstorm started, so I assume yes. But well, there's also some people who never will be happy and that will ask to fire people who didn't do anything worth of getting fired and/or on rumors or unproven accusations that the company can't verify. I assume a company won't fire someone because someone else doesn't like him as boss and some asshole who works for him possibly made up stuff.Demand #1 seems reasonable any sign that has or hasn't been addressed?
Demand #1 seems reasonable any sign that has or hasn't been addressed?
Tech and videogames were born on informal relationships, nowadays you can't have it because people can't behave or start to cry abuse when there isn't, seems the way is to go back to the traditional cubicle and "shut up and work".I must be the luckiest guy on Earth.
Every company I've worked for (small ones when I was doing shitty summer jobs) and Fortune 500 kinds of companies (last 20+ years) all seem pretty goof to work for. No giant protests, no twitter battles, no CEO/Manager/Subordinate abuse lawsuits, no leadership roles quitting the company due to scandals etc....
That's wild west video game and tech culture for ya.
Maybe if bosses acted more maturely and employees did the same, where they all treated the workplace like professionals for 8 or 9 hours per day, you wouldnt get so much weird shit going on.
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I must be the luckiest guy on Earth.
Every company I've worked for (small ones when I was doing shitty summer jobs) and Fortune 500 kinds of companies (last 20+ years) all seem pretty goof to work for. No giant protests, no twitter battles, no CEO/Manager/Subordinate abuse lawsuits, no leadership roles quitting the company due to scandals etc....
That's wild west video game and tech culture for ya.
Maybe if bosses acted more maturely and employees did the same, where they all treated the workplace like professionals for 8 or 9 hours per day, you wouldnt get so much weird shit going on.
Never a truer word spoken.Cunts.
Agreed.As long as I don't read the retarded comments some people post in our company's social media feed all is well.
Like you said if people acted like normal human beings at work and didn't try to screw coworkers, didn't make derogatory/sexist comments, didn't put too much trust in others, and left work at work, this wouldn't be an issue. But apparently that's too difficult.
It doesnt even have to be that serious of a topic like bad bosses and abuse.This one was hard to put a lolz emoji on because it's like.... I understand what they're saying and some of the demands they're making are very fucking Noble but at the same time start your own fucking company if you really feel that way you got hired by this company knowing who they were.
So I believe the demands about not allowing some predator or something that some offender to go from Studio to Studio with no repercussion is a Justified one because if someone is doing something that is illegal they should be fired and given over to the authorities or something like that I don't think any of us should be debating that but this whole argument about wanting a seat at the table of where the company moves forward starts to sound a little bit ridiculous because they are hired by this company they do not own it...
So I agree with the idea of the people leaving for them not tackling abuse as I would never joke about something like that anyone should leave a company that does not address something of the sort, but the rest of it seems like some crazy demands for people who chose to be employed by this company maybe it just makes more sense to make their own company.
Ubisoft will be just fine and them leaving will just open the door for others to join.......thats it.
It doesnt even have to be that serious of a topic like bad bosses and abuse.
Some employees just like to complain no matter what.
Case in point. At my company, we had about two years of WFH. The past 3 months we've been back to work hybrid style where management has asked employees to show up at the office one day a week. If you want to come in more go ahead, but please come in once a week. Were trying to set some cadence of person to person comraderie instead of everyone being robots on MS Teams where most people dont even go on cam. Many people in online meetings dont go on cam or say anything. You dont even know if they are sitting there listening or mowing the lawn.
You wouldnt believe the whining I've seen. Some people havent come in once. It's got so bad, the execs pushed down to all managers to take note who is coming in or not because they noticed when they come to the office there's almost nobody around. And they are right. I go to the office 2-3 times a week (never on a Friday) and there have been days there's 5 people in the office out of a max office pool of like 150 people. There is no way everyone shows up at least once a week. Thats all they ask.
And because of that, it's going to get to a point they fuck up the loose rules execs have set because they will at some point mandate more days and formal tracking.
That's 25% of the letter signees. Actual ubi turnover has been worse in 2021 from what I've heard, but that's been a problem across all of tech in last 18 months.Turn over rate in this industry is incredibly common. Implying that 25% left because of the situation at Ubisoft is misleading at best. To give an indication: The average turn over rate for the industry is 15%.
Our office is a traditional one where everyone showed up 5 days a week before covid. Even the handful of IT guys working the server room showed up every day. If someone can show up before no problem, it doesn't sound hard to show up one time per week.True. It can be like that. Most of my career in IT and business has been working from home so I dealt with a whole lot of that, but if the situation you are talking about is from the pandemic, as in they were hired to work at a physical location and because of the pandemic they had to shift to WFH, then I see it as a demand in some form that they employees are making to continue WFH by not showing up.
But thats how it is for work and school really, if something is optional......many not doing it lol They need to stop asking and start making it a hard rule and you'll see someone show up for 5 minutes and leave lol Its not for everyone and 10 years ago I never thought I'd favor working from home and I found I'm most productive by myself, but I digress.
I overall agree though, some will complain simply to complain, I find valid reasons for some of what they are saying, but a lot of it sounds like a deep entitlement when they can just form their own company.
That's 25% of the letter signees. Actual ubi turnover has been worse in 2021 from what I've heard, but that's been a problem across all of tech in last 18 months.
you got some people who cared the most about boxes of free product.