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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5750904" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>I'm fairly confident in making an educated guess that, for all the layoffs, Greg Leeds isn't taking a significant pay cut or benefits reduction any time soon.</p><p></p><p>How about we have an airline CEO demonstrate what responsible corporate leadership in tough economic times looks like:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AqFxK3GMEkA" target="_blank">JAL CEO Cuts Pay - YouTube</a></p><p></p><p>It strikes me that laying off your senior creative staff, while the management that brought the company to the point of having to lay off people sit rather comfortably in their jobs, smacks of a moral hollowness. Not on the part of the company, of course -- WotC is a construct, not an entity that can have a morality. But on the part of the <em>people</em> in management who make these decisions, for whatever justification they see for themselves. </p><p></p><p>I dunno. Maybe I've just been spending too much time at Occupy and reading <a href="http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">99 Percenter stories</a>.</p><p></p><p>I do get that sometimes layoffs are inevitable, that companies exist to make money, and that staff goes through changes. And WotC hasn't laid off people EVERY year. And there are good folks still working there (I'm fond of Mike and Monte, and Rodney Thompson is a good mind). But it is a bad habit, and one that certainly doesn't bring to mind anything like stability or confidence. </p><p></p><p>It's not like not buying their product will help, y'know? The middle-to-upper management that makes these decisions are well insulated from the consequences of their actions. Ultimately, the weight falls on the shoulders of the worker who puts in an honest day's labor for an honest living wage in something they love for decades of their life. They are the ones who get let go. It is rarely the senators or emperors who face the barbarians at the gates. It is the farmers and the soldiers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5750904, member: 2067"] I'm fairly confident in making an educated guess that, for all the layoffs, Greg Leeds isn't taking a significant pay cut or benefits reduction any time soon. How about we have an airline CEO demonstrate what responsible corporate leadership in tough economic times looks like: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AqFxK3GMEkA]JAL CEO Cuts Pay - YouTube[/url] It strikes me that laying off your senior creative staff, while the management that brought the company to the point of having to lay off people sit rather comfortably in their jobs, smacks of a moral hollowness. Not on the part of the company, of course -- WotC is a construct, not an entity that can have a morality. But on the part of the [I]people[/I] in management who make these decisions, for whatever justification they see for themselves. I dunno. Maybe I've just been spending too much time at Occupy and reading [URL="http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/"]99 Percenter stories[/URL]. I do get that sometimes layoffs are inevitable, that companies exist to make money, and that staff goes through changes. And WotC hasn't laid off people EVERY year. And there are good folks still working there (I'm fond of Mike and Monte, and Rodney Thompson is a good mind). But it is a bad habit, and one that certainly doesn't bring to mind anything like stability or confidence. It's not like not buying their product will help, y'know? The middle-to-upper management that makes these decisions are well insulated from the consequences of their actions. Ultimately, the weight falls on the shoulders of the worker who puts in an honest day's labor for an honest living wage in something they love for decades of their life. They are the ones who get let go. It is rarely the senators or emperors who face the barbarians at the gates. It is the farmers and the soldiers. [/QUOTE]
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