"That's so unprofessional!" "The dirty language wasn't needed!"
Dude's on his personal account, first of all, so he doesn't HAVE to be professional, there.
And second: Expletives are SO USEFUL. And so -powerful-, too, when either used in special situations or really frequently since they can shape public perception pretty hard.
For a guy who works in Communications you can bet your bottom dollar he knows both the power of an expletive and when to drop one to great effect.
You'll see no clutching of pearls from me.
I'm right there with him on the whole insulting shareholders things. They're ruining everything, everywhere, for everyone. And have been for a -long- time.
If he was talking about personal stuff on his personal account, then fine! But he isn't. He's talking about work stuff on his personal account, no longer making it personal stuff.
I wouldn't hire someone like that, someone that will publicly smear the company he worked for. What has happened before, will happen again. So beware next employer! Especially when you don't exactly know
why he doesn't work there anymore after almost 10 years... Only what why he says he doesn't work there anymore.
Also, this thing with management and shareholders isn't new, not at Hasbro, not at WotC, not anywhere. And still he's worked there for over 9 years! That's not just a few months or even a few years in the 'pool of corruption', it's been almost a decade! That sounds like a LOT of hypocritical BS in my book.
Shareholders exist in every company, even those held privately. The shareholder is just the owner. That can be the CEO, the founder, a family, the employees, it can be a bunch of fools, or a bunch of moneygrubbers. Shareholders are not by definition bad, but in certain countries and in certain branches they can be. YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU START WORKING THERE!
Working for small companies can be as toxic as working for large ones, the advantage of large companies: the budget is way bigger and often higher pay (less issues with getting a normal pay). And ANY organization has the potential for politics,
especially bureaucracies and public officials.
That said, for the last ~15 years I've been self-employed. I'm pretty much legally required to act independently from the company that hires me to do the 'IT stuff' they want done. I'm hired to do a job, but they have very little say in
how I do the job. I never want to go back working for a 'boss' ever again. I've spent about 10 years of that working for small businesses (including non-profits) and 5 for large to extremely large companies. These days I prefer large companies, don't care about their structure. I work for the agreed fee, on the agreed project, under the contractual obligations we agreed to. I have no problem doing more then contractually obliged to, but when I say that happens. I stay away from company politics and if I don't like it there, I'll finish the agreed upon work, but will not renew the contract for extension. I'm not joining a family, I'm doing work for money, because we all need money to live life. I prefer to do that as efficiently as possible.
The moment a company uses investors, that company is no longer owned by the founders, that's just the first step to a publicly held company. WotC was sold long ago and one of it's founders left not much later. The last 20 years also have shown what kind of company WotC/Hasbro is, not a good one for employees. All the Christmas layoffs must have become a tradition by now they have been happening long enough...
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