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If devs aren’t unionized, there’s no such thing as scabs right? Blizzard can just terminate all the disgruntled employees and hire other devs, perhaps more desperate or entry level or morally ambiguous, whatever.

Of course the institutional knowledge lost will be drastic.

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A company full of entry level devs is a company doomed to fail.

Entry level devs typically suck. Source: A former entry level dev.

It's difficult to understand how bloody stupid mass-firing of employees is, in order to protect a culture where a small minority harass and abuse others.

It's also difficult to understand how a billion-dollar business gets to this point, with what seems like zero adult oversight, but it is what it is.

> If devs aren’t unionized, there’s no such thing as scabs right? Blizzard can just terminate all the disgruntled employees and hire other devs

There is daylight between unions and anarchy. In that daylight are California’s general labor laws and the NLRA.

Putting unions and anarchy as polar opposites...you have no idea how pro-union anarchist are, because they're extremely pro-union.

I gotta give the state props for that trick, made the word dirty with a flawed definition, a bit like how the CIA made the term "conspiracy theory" mean nutjob, and not "criminal conspiracy by those in power"

Nobody cares about the technical definition of an obscure political philosophy.

Everyone knew what they meant, when they were talking about "Anarchy". And we dont care about the irrelevant political movement.

I care, so, you're off by one at minimum.

And for an irrelevant political movement, it sure takes up a lot of FBI resources.

Yes, it is pretty irrelevant to this conversation and most everything.

Everyone knew what this person meant, and then you came in and started talking about something that was not what anyone was talking about.

What person in their right mind would go work for a company that just fired all it's staff for demanding better conditions?

People in the QA department that are enduring the terrible conditions just for a shot at a game designer/programmer role.

The video game industry has a real problem retaining talent because so many people glorify how "fun" working on video games must be. There are always replacements, but they aren't always good.

It may be a step up for many. What's a shit-job for you might be a step-upping stone for someone else, who's opportunity selection is more limited than your own.

> If devs aren’t unionized, there’s no such thing as scabs right? Blizzard can just terminate all the disgruntled employees and hire other devs, perhaps more desperate or entry level or morally ambiguous, whatever.

Walkouts of this sort are considered protected activity under the NLRA, regardless of whether or not the people involved belong to a union.

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