"They want us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear" – Bethesda union members organise protest in response to Xbox layoffs
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Bethesda employees say HR made them remove a small memorial they created for coworkers who were laid off during Microsoft’s recent Xbox job cuts.
According to the Bethesda Game Studios Union, employees in Rockville, Maryland, put together a “Celebration of Service” display with photos of former coworkers to thank them for their work.
The union says HR had it taken down almost right away because it was in a shared office space.
“Unfortunately, HR made our office manager take this down almost immediately. They said because it’s in a common area, it had to be removed.”
“We’ve used common areas for many things as a team, including fan works, but HR seems to believe that a Celebration of Service is inappropriate.”
Thinking a bunch of people getting fired from a TES project by an entirely different studio is going to speed up the release of Elder Scrolls 6 is next level brain decay, by the way. A bunch of devs are losing their livelihood AND you’re not getting Skyrim 2
@verminjerky NGL, I have seen so many comments in reddit and Twitter that I feel like it's just bots because I see the same talking points all the time
Or maybe they are just actual bootlickers, which is sadder
Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.
This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.
Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.
A list of people we know who have been laid off at ZOS and Bethesda:
ZOS
Community Manager Gina Bruno
Lead Dungeon Director Mike Finnigan
Writer Designer Andrew Siañez-De La O
Writer Designer Julianna Comstock
Senior Writer Designer Jeff Grubb
Project Art Director Marc Hudgins
Senior Concept Artist Christina Cornett
Senior Animator Ami DeLullo
Animator Evan Van Biert
Senior Tools Engineer Robert Bailey
QA Tester Page Branson
Producer Ethan Koltz
Environmental Artist Brandon Rush
Associate Sound Designer Andrew Jordan
Senior Sound Designer Daniel Costello
Associate Sound Designer Sebastian Theodoro
QA Tester Trevor Bream
DevOps Engineer William Novak
Realtime FX Artist Jacob Wynn
Senior VFX Artist Anelise Mize
Lead Designer Ed Stark
Senior Encounter Designer Morgan Goin
Encounter Designer Erinn Fecteau
Senior Encounter Designer James Audet
Tools Product Owner Sydney Thibeault
Senior Software Engineer Dustin Thurston
Live Game Lead Gregory Roth
Content Manager Milo Webb
QA Manager Erik Marby
Narrative Director Bill Slavicsek
Lead Narrative Designer Richard Baker
Writer Designer Alexandria Baker
Writer Designer Ameya Vinayaraj
Bethesda
Community Manager Jessica Clark
Game Designer Simon Préfontaine
GRC Engineer Wayne Saunders
Associate Quest Designer Griffin DeClaire
Quest Designer Stephanie Zachariadis
Systems Designer Jean Paul Salman
Gameplay Engineer Anne Barrett
Monetization Designer Kevin Benavides
Lead Systems Designer Jacob Naasz
Senior Build and Release Programmer Anthony Ford
Lead Quest Designer Joshua Moretto
Senior QA Tester Steven Hoyle
Microsoft layoffs hit The Elder Scrolls Online in ways I can barely describe.
Gina is gone..? Finn? I am scared to find out who else.
These devs have put most of their adult lives into making ESO what it is. The game and its community CANT EVER be the same without them 💔
@softle0 Tienes otra computadora? Descarga los sims en otra computadora y inicia sesión y has lo que tienes que hacer
No tienes que bajar ninguna dlc, con el juego base basta