Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package::Roblox CEO David Baszucki told remote employees that they’ll have to start coming to the office Tuesdays through Thursdays.

  • RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I agree this is probably an attempt at veiled layoffs.

    But I wish I could understand why executives are so desperate to have people back in an office. It’s like class warfare or something.

    “Don’t let the proletariat spend more time in that box they already overpay for; make them come to the box that WE overpay for!”

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      I really think it is connected to the fact that many managers never had to think about how long something takes and how much work they actually need out of someone. It used to be, that if you stare at your screen from 9-5 you probably did all the work you could. But now they can’t see you stare at the screen and they fear they don’t get all the work out of you. For the first time management has to figure out how much work they need instead of going by time spent in the office. That scares them.

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        It’s because they all have assets in corporate real estate, have massive amounts of debt that they just refinance latter and get more investors on board so they can ignore the problem. Now we have real pressures that would kill their inflated corporate real estate assets turning that balance sheet upsode down and they are in a panic because they haven’t been effectively doing the job they are supposed to. Fuck them

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      Extroverts are disproportionately in places of power and authority and CANNOT understand people who don’t like being in the office. So if they don’t want to be in the office it’s because they’re lazy/anti-social/working multiple jobs. These extroverts are convinced that their preferences are the BEST way, because hey, they’re successful and that’s how they became successful.

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      Every time I hear some government tries to destroy privacy “for sake of kids”, I think “where have all you been when roblox exploited kids?”. When I was a kid and went to municipal children library(most of books are for childern or about children) to play Minecraft do 100% legit research, I’ve seen some kids play Roblox and hear them talk about them spending insane amount of money. Thank Faust it wasn’t me, this is really scary.

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    1 year ago

    I am of the mind that one should always take the package. Clearly, some are working paycheck to paycheck, which sucks.

    If you don’t take the package, then start applying for other jobs like mad.

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      https://www.levels.fyi/companies/roblox/salaries

      I refuse to believe that anyone at Roblox is working paycheck to paycheck, unless they literally burn the cash to heat their homes.

      If you can swing a different FAANG-level gig, then sure, take the package. Otherwise it might be a pretty bad move as far as compensation goes.

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      1 year ago

      They actually carved out a part of that for key staff. Basically anyone they deem to have deep knowledge doesn’t have to return back.

      This is one of the worst RTO requests I’ve seen because it’s just so obvious what it is.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      I hope they go down the crapper completely TBH, with their predatory practices targeted towards young people who don’t know what they’re being pulled into.

      That and the various gamedev companies on that site exploiting child devs who truly deserve better than that

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Roblox has always been complete garbage. If they don’t give a fuck about kids gambling, they sure as fuck don’t care about their employees.