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Bam.

You are instantly out of a job due to a fuck up on your employer's part. As a result, your coming paycheck for the previous two week's worth of work isn't going to be able to be issued on time and we're not sure your next one after is coming either.

You and EVERYONE in your company are potentially looking for work in an already crowded industry. You will have the reputation of a rat fleeing a sinking ship if you bail as soon as things get rough.

You're living paycheck to paycheck or damn close to it as most industry professionals actually do. Everyone you know is competition for a different job. Everyone else is reeling from how bad it got at Sony and wanting to lock things down and therefore have no inclination to bring anything into their offices associated with the massive clusterfuck that is Sony.

You think you're going to easily find another job? Times tens of thousands of people?

It's not "poof, bad company gone." it's "oh shit, a lot of people are truly fucked right now if it gets any worse than this."

Have a little fucking empathy, asshole.

The "asshole" in the end was wholly unnecessary.

Did it occur to you that for a moment scotty79 was truly asking an honest question and didn't think of it from the angle of the effect on employees and was probably agreeing with you up until you called him an asshole?

Not in the slightest based on his commenting history.

I was really curious and your answer was very informative. Thank you.

> oh shit, a lot of people are truly fucked right now if it gets any worse than this

Seems weird that in America people are so opposed to a socialism (which helps the individuals when a badly managed company screws up and dies, ensuring that nobody is ever "truly fucked"); but a government which gives money to corrupt managers to keep the corporation alive is fine (because "think of the individuals!")...

If you want corporations to be run on a survival-of-the-fittest basis (capitalism wants that, right?), surely letting the company die and having the government step in to avoid undue suffering for employees is the right thing to do?

(Though in this specific case, one could argue that the punishment of company death is disproportionate given the crime of allowing one security breach; or would capitalism say that that's an acceptable and necessary consequence to set an example for other companies in the same position?)

You could defend any company with this reasoning, no matter what atrocity they commit.

Company that jails people for profit? No we can't let them out because all those poor guards and their families will be left without a paycheck.

Drone strikes? We need that! Where would drone operators get their paychecks? And all thise poor engineers and tech crews!

Having empathy is one thing. Saying that people need jobs no matter what is another.

You could condemn anyone by rhetorically equating their actions with murder, no matter how innocent they are.

Dude seriously? I think you've lost the plot… Sony is a company that does a million things, and nothing that I'm aware of that would deserve the term 'atrocity', unless maybe you count some of their movie plots.

What company do you work for so that we can thoroughly vet that you are not a part of any global conspiracies? If we do find something that could be a problem, you will be tried for crimes against humanity as a lowly employee trying to make ends meet.

Everything you responded to me with btw, has nothing to do with Sony. Your strawman, burn it.

Sure, that sucks for the people involved, but isn't this how Capitalism is supposed to work? Bad companies fail and go bankrupt, and new better adapted ones rise up and take their place.

And damn the consequences for the workers? They're nothing but disposable bags of meat?

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