did you get 200$ epic game store credit instead?
Bobby got a 200$ mil bonus tho
Don’t get me wrong, from over a decade ago Activision became a worse type of corporate leviathan than EA. I feel they have exceeded many of the worst tendencies that EA used to display. Bobby Kotick is the kind of CEO who makes me squirm with anger with how belligerently he pursues the bottom line.
I have been through several layoffs. The largest severance package I received was
two weeks’ pay, in addition to the mandatory cashing out of my remaining vacation time, and an offer to let me cash out my stock options before I left the building. I declined that, because I felt the company was not making forward thinking decisions.
My first job in the industry also ended in a layoff, where are the boss tried to dismiss us all without paying for our last months’ worth of work. We assumed the company was bankrupt and going out of business, so we all voiced our sympathy and concern for the boss. When he explained that he was going to continue business with about ½ the staff, we informed him that he was legally obligated to pay us for all of our hours to-date, and any vacation pay, and any amount of severance would go a ways towards restoring Goodwill. There was no severance.
