Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Twitch Is In Huge Trouble" video.

Aren't their VODs extremely limited though? You can host way more on YouTube.
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@SnowMexicann No idea where you live, but employment laws vary in the US. Here in Texas, where I live, at-will employment is law, which means you can be let go for any time at any reason. I received a severance package, which only makes things more confusing. Why all the theater and shady atmosphere just to give me severance after? Why treat me like a criminal? I just don't get it.
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@mantizshrimp That sounds like an excuse used by incompetent executives. I mean we're posting comments on a platform owned by Google. YouTube by itself is much older and therefore, arguably larger than Twitch. Sure they make bad decisions, but not at the same rate, and in spite of people complaining no platform has ever come close to challenging YouTube. There's definitely no mandate that forces Twitch management to make terrible decisions.
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Yep. Same shit when I worked in the IT department for a multinational bank. Rumors circulate, sometimes the company will even make an announcement but not specify who. It's infuriating, really. At one of my previous roles, they called an "all-hands meeting" and herd all the people to be laid off into a separate room. Then they would not tell anyone in the other rooms that the others were laid off until after the fact. I just barely got to say goodbye to (some) of the coworkers I liked. I had about 30 minutes from the moment I stepped outside that conference room to get all my shit and leave, all while some fuck face in a suit stood over my shoulder.
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@thedarthsidious66 Actually it's not cheaper at all. Contracted roles will cost, as a rule, something like 30% more, maybe even 50% more, of what you would pay a full-time employee you hired directly. The cost saved is supposed to be time spent finding a good employee, not money. However, it's a delicate balance. When a contracted employee works for you for a long time, the extra money you spend paying the contracting agency their cut adds up.
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Well, YouTube is owned by one of the biggest corporations in the world (Google) and it's not nearly as bad for streaming. It's corporate, true, but it's also bad corporate management. It's terrible shortsighted decision making that tends to occur the moment a company starts slipping behind slightly. The cost-saving or profit-increasing measures they take burn out their popular support and it starts an unstoppable downward spiral that ends in the company being sold or going bankrupt and the executive staff wiping their hands and walking away whistling to their next company as if nothing happened. Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast made the same terrible mistakes recently. The measures they take tend to increase revenue for a year, maybe a couple of years, then it tends to backfire badly. Alternatively, it can also happen because the company has the most market share and they think there's nothing left to do but implement easy yet extremely unpopular measures that increase revenue. There's a lot of avenues to bad decision making when managing a company.
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Technical departments look bad on a spreadsheet. This lesson is just too hard to learn for managers, especially ones that come from a finance or investment background. They see red number, think scary bad, and fire hundreds of people. They literally think that the money just goes into a hole and no value comes out of it because they didn't do the work to study how much value the work they do on the product or service is worth.
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