Hey Antiwork,
I've posted here before that Activision Blizzard King was seeking to force workers to return to office. Workers were given different timelines of return to office plans also known as RTO.
Now, sadly the accommodations process has been sending out copy and paste responses at a delayed rate to workers requesting what into they need to meet the accommodation request, to work from home still. I should also stress that “togetherness” has been the touted trait ABK (Activision-Blizzard-King) uses in their wording for why RTO is happening. While on our end all of our metrics have been up.
I have seen over 1/5th of my team in Minnesota either quit or be “fired” unlawfully (pending nlrb rulings). This also comes as ABK is rapidly expanding their Austin Texas Office and hiring tons of independent contractors to replace the current full time testers. Sadly the level of work doesn't meet the same standards as these contractors aren't fully trained and are more play test “storm troopers”.
Sadly more will leave, more will move on.
I've watched the company who's first game I played was World at War on my friends living room floor, turn into something darker than any zombie game's decaying horror lore.
I get it though. People want to rag on workers for the games being bad. People shit on us when we wanted a union because we wanted change and not to just be complacent with the golden carrot of working for THE Activision.
Being here in this subreddit has helped me see my worth.
It's not worth being in a company who truly sees its employees as a number.
The creativity of Activision died years ago in a board room.
Tl;DR: Activision is quiet firing their QA department through a number of practices. Over a 1/5th of the QA department full time testers have left.
Thank you.
Edit: spelling