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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9287290" data-attributes="member: 18">So? That doesn't mean they're not an organisation trading on their name having horrible historical connotations. Also, I thought you were like a university/college or school guy, is that wrong? If it's not wrong what the heck is a Pinkerton doing at a place of learning?Hiring the Pinkertons for any kind of investigative or similar work is always a bad call unless your goal is intimidation. Period. The reason you hire them is their name and the intimidatory and predatory aspect that name gives them. It's the same reason you hire them for close protection or the like - it gives the people they're protecting a sense that these guys are "dangerous badasses", even though they're just the same ol same ol rentacops you could get from a dozen different agencies (indeed they're owned by Securitas, the most generic of rentacops), and for some people that vibe matters.WotC made a mistake by doing it - it's easy to guess the chain of events - some exec thought it was cool/badass to hire the Pinkertons, didn't even consider this might be "bad optics", because his head was too far up his own bum, and whoops, what should have been a quietly-handled, unsensational "Don't do that" to the leaker turns into sensational negative press. Even just turning up at someone's door identifying yourself as a Pinkerton is de facto intimidatory. No amount of lying to yourself about the Pinkertons being "normal" will change their reputation or how the public views them, and again, they maintain that name for that very reason - it benefits them because certain clients find it darkly glamorous.I don't expect Hasbro to not do layoffs when it's making a loss (even though I know it's mostly a performance rather than a practical measure  - it's something publicly traded companies are expected to do, a hair shirt for the company only the only people it hurts are actual workers, the real execs are left alone). I do expect them to make more reasoned and targeted layoffs - and that's flatly not unreasonable, because plenty of other publicly traded companies do manage it. It's also fascinating that they ditched so many people from D&D when they still seemingly have over 250 people working on the 3D VTT, which is basically just an app for D&D (indeed new hiring messages went up during the layoffs and after them for the 3D VTT).</blockquote>

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