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.

 

[Oofta]

That's a real stretch in logic.

I don't see that implication at all. He was talking about shareholders, not co-workers. Why assume otherwise if you're trying to be objective?

I wasn't the one who made the statement that he said bad things about other employees, just explaining the logic as I see it.

I have a lot of issues with capitalism that I'm not going into here, and it has more to do with implementation than anything. It's also pretty unavoidable for most people. But I have known people that have this holier-than-thou attitude because I worked at a publicly traded company and by doing so I was supporting what they consider a broken system.

 

[OptionalRule]

That's a real stretch in logic.

It is not. It is a common and basic tennant of management that you don't crap on the company out the door like that because of what it says to the people who worked for you and the people who worked with you. The most fundamental baseline expectation of any manager is that you act with consideration toward the people who work for you and give a thought to how your actions effect them.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It is not. It is a common and basic tennant of management that you don't crap on the company out the door like that because of what it says to the people who worked for you and the people who worked with you. The most fundamental baseline expectation of any manager is that you act with consideration toward the people who work for you and give a thought to how your actions effect them.

Do you expect WotC did that with Tito?

 

[OptionalRule]

Do you expect WotC did that with Tito?

I expect they were that way to him. What's your point? That you're justsified in being inconsiderate toward the people working for you because the people you work for are bad to you?

 

[Micah Sweet]

I expect they were that way to him. What's your point? That you're justsified in being inconsiderate toward the people working for you because the people you work for are bad to you?

I don't believe complaining about shareholders means you are being inconsiderate to your co-workers.

 

[R_Chance]

Neither is Tito; he has one.

I noticed. Washington state government. That was a general comment referring to anyone who does what he did.

 

[bedir than]

Again, crapping on everyone he worked with by implying that they are are just shilling still, now that he's above it. He wasn't some low level employee. He was a Directory. Out the door and crapping not just the people he worked with, but the sabordinates that worked for him. That's trash behavior.

Tito's anger was directed at shareholders, which in the US almost exclusively means the top 10%.
His coworkers at almost every level are not those people.
He certainly was not targeting people who worked for him.

 

[OptionalRule]

Tito's anger was directed at shareholders, which in the US almost exclusively means the top 10%.
His coworkers at almost every level are not those people.
He certainly was not targeting people who worked for him.

I think it was directed at them, but it lands on everyone. That's why managers don't do that. You take responsibility for more than yourself. Again, a basic tennant of management.

If what you said were remotly true, we wouldn't be having these conversations around this here and everywhere else online.

 

[bedir than]

I think it was directed at them, but it lands on everyone. That's why managers don't do that. You take responsibility for more than yourself. Again, a basic tennant of management.

If what you said were remotly true, we wouldn't be having these conversations around this here and everywhere else online.

We're having this discussion because people have misrepresented his words to mean that he's angry at his coworkers, which isn't supported by his statements.

 

[LordEntrails]

We're having this discussion because people have misrepresented his words to mean that he's angry at his coworkers, which isn't supported by his statements.

His words are also being misrepresented to say he's mad at his former bosses.

Seems to me there is a whole lot of "interpretation" going on concluding what Tito really meant and not what he actually said.