I always get a giggle reading about gaming corporations doing stupid
stuff. Unsurprisingly, Activision is a frequent offender.
Activision, of course, has been having a rough year. It is being sued
for sexually predatory behavior by its executives, it has ongoing relationship problems with its employees, it is under FTC review for
its potentially monopolistic merger with Microsoft, and it isn't even
all that well regarded by its customers. You would think a company
with all those problems might try to stay out of the limelight. But
nope, they're in the news again.
This time, its for its on-again/off-again decisions about mandatory
employee vacinations.* I'm not going to get into the why and what of
that choice t - it's a topic that has stupidly become far too divisive
for me to get into on a gaming newsgroup - but it's the sort of thing
a good CEO really should have avoided. They made a decision months ago
to do one thing; fine. It caused an uproar then, but it had to be done
and the eventually people stopped talking about it. And that's where
it should have been left, but of course Activision had to go and
dredge up the issue a second time... and then a third when they
reversed course with a third change. When there is so much bad news associated with your company, the thing to do is stop kicking up a
stink, and instead huddle up and do nothing. But again and again,
Activision manages to do anything but that.
You really have to wonder who's running the circus there... and how
the board can continue to justify the eight or nine digit salaries
those people are earning.
I mean, in the long run, this issue doesn't change anything, not for
the employees, not for the games, not for the customers, and not for
the merger. It's just an amusing indicator of the top-down
incompetence of a company supposedly worth billions. It's equal parts
amusing and pathetic. It's - I'll be the first to admit - barely worth reporting, except it's so ridiculously stupid that I can't help but
comment. So consider this post my overly loquacious equivalent of a
face-palm as, once again, Activision fucks itself over.
I always get a giggle reading about gaming corporations doing stupid
stuff. Unsurprisingly, Activision is a frequent offender.
Activision, of course, has been having a rough year. It is being sued
for sexually predatory behavior by its executives, it has ongoing relationship problems with its employees, it is under FTC review for
its potentially monopolistic merger with Microsoft, and it isn't even
all that well regarded by its customers. You would think a company
with all those problems might try to stay out of the limelight. But
nope, they're in the news again.
This time, its for its on-again/off-again decisions about mandatory
employee vacinations.* I'm not going to get into the why and what of
that choice t - it's a topic that has stupidly become far too divisive
for me to get into on a gaming newsgroup - but it's the sort of thing
a good CEO really should have avoided. They made a decision months ago
to do one thing; fine. It caused an uproar then, but it had to be done
and the eventually people stopped talking about it. And that's where
it should have been left, but of course Activision had to go and
dredge up the issue a second time... and then a third when they
reversed course with a third change. When there is so much bad news associated with your company, the thing to do is stop kicking up a
stink, and instead huddle up and do nothing. But again and again,
Activision manages to do anything but that.
You really have to wonder who's running the circus there... and how
the board can continue to justify the eight or nine digit salaries
those people are earning.
I mean, in the long run, this issue doesn't change anything, not for
the employees, not for the games, not for the customers, and not for
the merger. It's just an amusing indicator of the top-down
incompetence of a company supposedly worth billions. It's equal parts
amusing and pathetic. It's - I'll be the first to admit - barely worth reporting, except it's so ridiculously stupid that I can't help but
comment. So consider this post my overly loquacious equivalent of a
face-palm as, once again, Activision fucks itself over.
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