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Fire Bobby Kotick (The Jimquisition)
- Thread starter lashman
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Although stock prices have dipped, I don't think Bobby is going anywhere - unless he retires. People can hope and dream all they want.
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That's capitalism for you. A CEO who makes the company shittons of money is probably not going to let go, even if he fucks ever employees.
Another emotion filled, weak Jim video lacking all nuance and facts to advocate a simplistic solution that makes no sense.
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Bobby Kotick isn't a decent human being because he doesn't make the vidya games you want?
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Bobby Kotick isn't a decent human being because he doesn't make the vidya games you want?
The guy is one of the best CEOs around. Nearly 30 years of stable growth with the same guy in charge.
People saying he should be fired are hilarious.
In an ideal world Bobby and all these shareholder cunts would lose all their money.
There are no decent billionaires.
There are no decent billionaires.
The man is good at his job, he makes money. No one has ever been let go for making too much money for the shareholders.
How you got that conclusion based on everything that's been said about Kotick is kind of amazing in and of itself.
Name a CEO that's been at his job as long as Bobby has, lol.
Dude is legendarily consistent in making Activision money. As far as his actual job performance goes, he ain't going nowhere.
Dude is legendarily consistent in making Activision money. As far as his actual job performance goes, he ain't going nowhere.
I think it's rather you who is missing the point. The shareholders do not give a flying fuck as long as they make money. If a significant portion of their customers rise up and stop buying every single game from Activision going forward in protest of what happened then maybe the shareholders will take note and blame Kotick for it. Maybe. Until then, it's safe road ahead for him.
No. He's a terrible human being because he risks the livelihoods of hundreds so he can fill his already full to burst pockets with more money. Why are you commenting on something you clearly know nothing about?
I forget when it was, but there was a year where everyone hated Bobby Kotick, would photoshop horns on his head and make him out to be Satan, so on and so forth.
It feels like that year again. Almost makes me nostalgic.
It feels like that year again. Almost makes me nostalgic.
I've spoken to acti employees and I know they might just say it because why would they ever not say it but, they said he's a nice guy, he plays video games and comes by their studio every now and then.
I've not worked in a AAA company but I have interned in a rather corporate company before and got a sense of what it's like to work with the big business CEO guy at the top. Witness to people being "let go" and the general atmosphere of such a place. Generally a good work environment if a bit too office-political (can't wear short pants etc.) but as soon as you see people getting fired you know that it's do or die and comparing it to Activision and Bobby Kotick, I kinda know what I think about him. He does the industry-average job for people in his kind of career only he's very good at it, it runs the company but also at the expense of employee job-security and... well, it doesn't instill you with passion for creativity and passion for gaming in the long run, if you you're cut out of the studio the second their bottomline isn't as good as last year or their projects are so arbitrarily high that they gave themselves an excuse to fire you.
AAA companies are just trash in that sense. I'd really like to know any studio that doesn't ultimately run like EA or Activision in that regard though.
I've not worked in a AAA company but I have interned in a rather corporate company before and got a sense of what it's like to work with the big business CEO guy at the top. Witness to people being "let go" and the general atmosphere of such a place. Generally a good work environment if a bit too office-political (can't wear short pants etc.) but as soon as you see people getting fired you know that it's do or die and comparing it to Activision and Bobby Kotick, I kinda know what I think about him. He does the industry-average job for people in his kind of career only he's very good at it, it runs the company but also at the expense of employee job-security and... well, it doesn't instill you with passion for creativity and passion for gaming in the long run, if you you're cut out of the studio the second their bottomline isn't as good as last year or their projects are so arbitrarily high that they gave themselves an excuse to fire you.
AAA companies are just trash in that sense. I'd really like to know any studio that doesn't ultimately run like EA or Activision in that regard though.
No, you just don't care about human cost if it justifies bizniz and it shows.
Business entities aren't charities. Loss leading divisions shouldn't be kept around « because think of those poor people!!! ».
Well considering it's the shareholders who will be doing the firing, then it's pretty fucking important point to make that they love him lol.
The notion that corporations will fire a CEO for anything other than losing money is hilarious and an exercise in futility. This is what business do - they don't give a shit about the individual whom they employ.
Unfortunately he's not going anywhere due to his incredible ability to make Activision's shareholders money. Shit has to change elsewhere im afraid to make it harder to simply dump people just because the shareholders want to make more money.
for all the shitty decision activision made we shouldnt forget that bobby kotick is in this since the commodore days and has been ceo for decades and that with tremendous success. i cant think of any person that had similar success
No, people are saying he isn't a decent human being because the company he leads had record profits and he still decided to layoff hundreds of employees. Personally, I direct my anger more at the system that incentivizes such behavior (and the lack of a union which would protect worker interests and make layoffs like this unfeasible), but I don't think it's that farfetched to see others be angry at Kotick himself. After all, he did make this decision. I'm sure the Activision-Blizzard employees who were laid off don't have a high opinion of the man either.
Yeah, fire the guy making his shareholders tons of cash. Good call, Jim. You dont sound like a crackpot at all.
Bobby Kotick will get to leave ActiBlizz on his own terms. Without some sort of earth-shattering event, there's not going to be any shareholder revolt.
Stock contraction to 2017 levels isn't grounds for that at all.
Stock contraction to 2017 levels isn't grounds for that at all.
We are so far from 'a job is a guarantee' in the status quo that the fact you think this is a good argument is laughable. No, a job is not a guarantee, but you would think that record performance for a company would prevent the need for layoffs. Except workers in this industry have virtually no protections, so even though performance is good people have no job security.
There is a middle ground between 'a job is a guarantee' and 'human beings are disposable'.
To the common consumer who's interested in the medium, yes he should be fired for what he has done. But to the people who matter (aka, the shareholders), he has done no wrong by them and made a ton of cash.
Letting him go would make very little sense from their perspective.
Letting him go would make very little sense from their perspective.
This has absolutely nothing to do with me personally and their output, and I'm unsure why you had to make it about this.
Even agreeing with Jim, Bobby Kotick is the kind of guy that the market loves: the profit-oriented asshole that doesn't have any remorse on cannibalizing it's own company seaching for a maximum profit and treats their own customers as shit. Actually their customers are the shareholders, the rest is just some kind of pawns in a great chess.
It's no mistery that Activision is rotten till the bone and depends on one or two ip's to reach to their financial results. What brokes my heart is that the same thing is happening to the Blizzard.
It's no mistery that Activision is rotten till the bone and depends on one or two ip's to reach to their financial results. What brokes my heart is that the same thing is happening to the Blizzard.