WotC D&D Hiring New Game Designer Months After Firing Many

The job pays from $86-145k and is for an experienced game designer—presumably much like one of those they let go a few months ago!

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Notably, one of those let go in December in Hasbro’s company-wide cost-cutting cull of over 1,000 jobs was D&D designer Dan Dillon. Dillon posted on Twitter—“Well. There it is. D&D is hiring a game designer, 8 months later. Was it worth it, you soulless f*****g cowards? Did you save enough money?”

 

[jerryrice4949]

Why do people always assume that the people posting this haven't made that consideration, and it's worth it to them to shine a light on this?

Why do you assume I didn’t assume that?

 

[DarkCrisis]

Why do you assume I didn’t assume that?

I assume that he assumed that you assumed.

 

[jerryrice4949]

OK.

I think there is something to be said for speaking up, and actively normalising “sit down and keep quiet” can be problematic. People shouldn’t be intimidated into silence when wronged (as a general principle—not this specifically). While you might be right and it might be damaging for somebody to stand up for themselves, it shouldn't be, and normalising that is a problem in my mind. It would be nice to see a cultural shift there and that begins in small moments like this conversation.

It’s not mutually exclusive. You can speak up without resorting to words like ‘soulless’ etc. you can speak up without being inflammatory toward the company. I don’t care of course. More power to him. I am just saying there is more than one way to go about things like that. But I support him to do what he thinks is best for him.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

The rest wasn’t, though, was it? Please do not attribute made-up quotes to people. It’s disingenuous, and it reduces the possibility of meaningful conversation.

Fair enough. Your emoji seems pretty synonymous with disagreeing with the rest of it though i.e. you disagreeing with 'Being branded a hot head and slagging previous employers... not the best career move.'. My bad if you didn't intend to disagree with that statement!

I am not interested in meaningless conversation either. Please stop trying to play gotcha with me? I did genuinely agree with what you posted about everyone having their voices' heard.

 

[cranberry]

It may just be a "ghost job".

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Easy for you to say, it wasn't your job. Whether or not posting about it in anger is a separate question, but should he not feel angered about this? I'd be kind of pissed off it were me.

Maybe the takeaway here should be more along the lines of "not a thing to police anybody else's feelings over".

I've been part of corporate layoffs several times over my career (on both sides). I understand this person's feeling completely. His reaction was not at all well-considered though in my opinion (but see my other posts and responses on the topic).

 

[Zaukrie]

Is it possible to block a thread from appearing? This is going exactly like one would think.....

 

[Scribe]

Is it possible to block a thread from appearing? This is going exactly like one would think.....

No, I've asked several times.

 

[DarkCrisis]

It may just be a "ghost job".

Isn't that what happened to Ray in Ghostbusters?

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

I expect he feels he can get away with it, considering the particular previous employer in question.

Chummer, I like you, but I don't play that game.