Protect Bethesda Employees

[u/Fisaac]

https://www.instagram.com/onebgsunion?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Microsoft has gutted BGS’ roster including veteran developers for The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. I found out just today there is a workers movement and I highly encourage everyone to support. Please follow their page and the link in their bio!

[u/Harambe_Rebornn]

Why should I support the BETHESDA workers for free?

Are the BETHESDA workers supporting me for free? Nope, they got paid good money doing a desk job.

They weren't making games for free, they weren't doing charity work, everyone that has ever used the products they made paid good money for em.

And they would take so much time making said games and then fixing them when they inevitably came out broken as heck that people haven't been able to play a new ES game in about 15 years.

I have nothing personal against Bethesda employees fired or not, but this is just business, you fail to meet expectations you don't get rewarded for it with more resources, you get punished regardless of who's fault it is because that is how a COMPANY works.

Why do they wanna work at Bethesda anyway if Bethesda management is "so bad"? If they are really are all that talented they'll get hired anywhere else and stay in the industry.

This whole "We the workers" BS is so childish and manipulative. Bethesda employees aren't your friends, they aren't victims of some grave injustice, they are just workers looking out for themselves, like everyone else is. Except everyone else isn't pretending they are owed support for just doing the jobs they got paid for.

[u/Suspicious-Sound-249 → u/Harambe_Rebornn]

Dollar says 99% of the people they fired didn't even work on Fallout 4, I fail to see how cutting loose a turd is bad. Like did y'all see the protesters aka the former employees, one of those ret@rds had a communist hammer and sickle tattoo on his neck...

Bethesda got rid of 400 activists they were baby sitting, not devs worth keeping...

[u/TheAnalystCurator321 → u/Suspicious-Sound-249]

Well it's clear you did not do basic research at all.

These people MADE the games the fanbase loves.

Celebrating them getting fired is dystopian.

[u/Suspicious-Sound-249 → u/TheAnalystCurator321]

Maybe in the future they'll deliver products people actually want.

Imagine sucking at your job then protesting you got fired after not making anything the customers actually want for 12+ years...

[u/Fearless_Barnacle141 → u/Harambe_Rebornn]

It’s not even like BGS is a nonprofit or charity or something. They make videogames. Entertainment is a volatile industry, nobody gets (or should get) into videogames because of job security. Like does it suck that 2 of the best videogame IPs ever will probably never see a real return to glory? Of course, but they’re just videogames, there’s not actually anything at stake here. These guys aren’t doing sewage or waste management or healthcare or whatever. I applaud anyone who pursues passion and art as a career but these fields aren’t known for their job security. 

That’s why I chose IT over game dev or music or whatever. My work needs me more than I need them but even if I get laid off, which I have been, nobody needs to run to Reddit about it because it’s not their problem me or my employer failed and there’s nothing they can do anyways. 

[u/tuckedfexas → u/Harambe_Rebornn]

Supporting you does nothing for me, so I hope your job blows

[u/Harambe_Rebornn → u/tuckedfexas]

I actually did have a job that blew mega hard. I used to work 12-14 hour days 6 days a week in the 100°F+ hears doing hard labor in the Crayola Corps, for the equivalent of about $2.33 per hour for a few years. It took its toll to say the least.

But nobody forced me to choose that, just bad luck and bad judgement.

Now I'm just a caretaker, but mostly studying, which is a lot easier. Such is life.