Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "WoW Dev Instantly FIRED After Adding This To The Game" video.

@nailinthefashion "Like Bungie did?" You mean the company that went on to work for fucking Activision so they could make GaaS pseudo-MMO shooter games that they could monetize for infinity? Yeah, clearly a virtuous company.
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"Don't you guys have Hearthstones?"
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@ne0nmancer That has been a meme for eons, dude. It has nothing to do with Bobby. "Buying a yacht" is the most vanilla way to express that an executive is keeping money for themselves instead of putting it back in the company.
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@MasterGhostf Virtually any position at a company like this will offer severance. I have yet to be laid off from a company that did not offer it and I'm a programmer. My first job I only worked there 6 months before being laid off and they gave me 3 months severance. It is actually better for society if things are done from the grassroots up instead of if the government mandates it.
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No it won't. You need proof that they terminated him wrongfully and undertaking that lawsuit is equivalent to sinking your own career. No one will hire you even if you win the lawsuit. Nobody wants to hire the guy that is not afraid to sue the company. I know a guy that was cheated by his old company, as in they provably breached contract, and he didn't do anything because he wanted to get a new job.
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@HauntingSpectre "They can just get away with whatever they want." Not if you quit. The most powerful thing you can do as a worker is have valuable skills. You're ignoring that part of the equation. If you're stupid enough to work for another awful company after getting burned, nothing will help you. Personally, I would never trust a lawyer (or the judge, for that matter) to give me what I want or need. It would only be in the most desperate of situations that I would use legal action. The guy in question now works at one of the top defense contractors in the nation making way more money than he did before. The contract breach I referred to was done at the last possible moment (they only paid him part of his agreed severance). The money he lost in that breach of contract is probably barely a memory to him now. "I know a few people who have sued employers, got a big pay day, and found gainful employment elsewhere." What industry? The one I was referring to was telecoms. There are no good companies in that industry.
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@Metaknight180 Retaining and hiring are very, very different things. It is my experience that very few companies know how to hire software developers. People almost always represent themselves differently in an interview, either consciously or subconsciously, than how they work on the day-to-day.
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