WotC Greg Tito On Leaving WotC: 'It feels good to do something that doesn't just line the pockets of *****'

We reported earlier that WotC's communications director Greg Tito had left his 9-year stint managing the Dungeons & Dragons brand for a political appointment as Deputy Director of External Affairs for the Washington secretary of state's office.

Greg Tito Leaves Wizards of the Coast

Greg Tito, formerly the communications manager in charge of overseeing messaging for the Dungeons & Dragons brand, is departing Wizards of the Coast for a career in the public sector. Tito announced that he would be joining the Washington secretary of state's office starting this week, ending an...

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In a surprising turn of events, Tito criticized his former employers, saying "It feels good to do something that doesn't just line the pockets of a**holes." He later went on to clarify "Sorry. I meant "shareholders".

Tito is now Deputy Director of External Affairs for the Washington Secretary of State office in Olympia, WA.

 

[Deathmaster Banak]

What an unprofessional a**hole. Sorry. I meant "ar**hole".

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

unprofessional

Know your place! Kneel before your betters! We're making an example of someone today and it could be you!

 

[Warpiglet-7]

None of whom appear to be in an industry that Tito works for, for the record.

They could also be raging about his lack of a commercial truck drivers license, for all it matters. (Not at all.)

You are probably right. But it does look like he is going into something different. And social media has a long memory.

I don’t have “sympathy” for WOTC/Hasbro and am not rooting for them. But if it’s a discussion about what happened, cannot see how insulting people with money in general or the general population of stock owners is ever going to benefit the former employee.

He probably/might have some real grievance we don’t know about. But the way he slammed the door and shook his fist at non-company people takes away from his credibility.

Someone saying “it does not matter in the gaming industry” or other countries isn’t persuasive to me.

If for years he is smoothing over for the brand and is covering for WOTC I guess there could be an egregious straw that broke the camels back. Otherwise he went along with and supported their BS a long time and suddenly saw the light?

Maybe something new /big happened. If so it would make more strategic sense to act like he did

 

[Oofta]

You are probably right. But it does look like he is going into something different. And social media has a long memory.

I don’t have “sympathy” for WOTC/Hasbro and am not rooting for them. But if it’s a discussion about what happened, cannot see how insulting people with money in general or the general population of stock owners is ever going to benefit the former employee.

He probably/might have some real grievance we don’t know about. But the way he slammed the door and shook his fist at non-company people takes away from his credibility.

Someone saying “it does not matter in the gaming industry” or other countries isn’t persuasive to me.

If for years he is smoothing over for the brand and is covering for WOTC I guess there could be an egregious straw that broke the camels back. Otherwise he went along with and supported their BS a long time and suddenly saw the light?

Maybe something new /big happened. If so it would make more strategic sense to act like he did

Could just be that he had an opportunity to take a job with the government, one that doesn't include being the focus of ire for a lot of overzealous gamers who were shooting the messenger. That kind of role could be extremely stressful for some people.

Or not. We just don't know. I also don't really care much one way or another, it's his life and his choice. I just don't think it was a good idea.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Could just be that he had an opportunity to take a job with the government, one that doesn't include being the focus of ire for a lot of overzealous gamers who were shooting the messenger. That kind of role could be extremely stressful for some people.

Or not. We just don't know. I also don't really care much one way or another, it's his life and his choice. I just don't think it was a good idea.

I would not want to put up with the customers. But of course I would thank folks for nine years of employment and make the move. Unnecessary…

 

[Micah Sweet]

Could just be that he had an opportunity to take a job with the government, one that doesn't include being the focus of ire for a lot of overzealous gamers who were shooting the messenger. That kind of role could be extremely stressful for some people.

Or not. We just don't know. I also don't really care much one way or another, it's his life and his choice. I just don't think it was a good idea.

He didn't say his issue was with the customers. He said his issue was lining of the pickets of his a*hole *bosses.

 

[Oofta]

He didn't say his issue was with the customers. He said his issue was lining of the pickets of his a*hole *bosses.

He said shareholders.

 

[Micah Sweet]

He said shareholders.

Still sounds more like bosses than customers.

 

[Oofta]

Still sounds more like bosses than customers.

You're literally ignoring what he said. The OP states (bold added)

"It feels good to do something that doesn't just line the pockets of a**holes." He later went on to clarify "Sorry. I meant "shareholders".​

What he thinks of his former bosses is left unstated.

 

[Staffan]

He said shareholders.

And the (major) shareholders are the ones who demand that people be fired because the bosses have made poor investment decisions, because lowering payroll stokes the embers within their black shriveled hearts and allows them to keep pulling money out of the company. Greg's characterization of them is not without merit.