Just yesterday, it was alleged that Bungie’s CEO Pete Parsons had purchased 24 cars cumulatively valued at $2.5m just before the layoffs. Parson’s Twitter account went private yesterday, too.
Pete Parsons thanks all the plebs who lost their job. If the plebs didn't lose their jobs, Pete Parsons would not be able to buy 24 cars.
Pete Parsons thanks all the plebs who lost their job. If the plebs didn't lose their jobs, Pete Parsons would not be able to buy 24 cars.
That's as many as 2.4 tens. And that's terrible.
That employee needs to get over her simping mentality and sue for the gender discrimination Bungie is blatantly guilty of. I don't give a shit if they happened to be doing a mass layoff at the same time; you don't get rid of somebody right before their already-scheduled maternity leave!
I'm not sure you have a case if the percentage of women on maternity leave in the fired group is roughly the same as in the non-fired group.
If it isn't illegal to fire people taking maternity leave specifically, which I don't think it is in the US, you're out of luck. The only illegal thing is firing people because of maternity leave. Since there was a mass layoff, it can easily be argued that the maternity leave was not the reason.
The US needs better labor laws, and thus unions. An individual can't do anything against it.
There are two possibilities. Either:
The decision to lay the person off was made before the maternity leave was scheduled, in which case I'd argue she has a case for detrimental reliance, or
The decision to lay the person off was made after the maternity leave was scheduled, in which case a prima facie assumption is fair to make that the taking of leave obviously colored the supervisor's evaluation and contributed to the layoff, and the burden is on the employer to prove otherwise.
Or option 3: manager made sure not to discriminate against non-maternity-leave people by not overly firing them compared to people on maternity leave.
If they only fired people not on maternity leave, they could sue about being discriminated against.
In fact, there's an argument to be made that they must terminate her, because Terminating everybody but those with scheduled maternity leave has a disparate impact on employees who are not pregnant.
Seriously? It happened to someone I used to work with (last November). Except they laid her off while she was on maternity leave.
My wife was at home for 3 months before the birth of our child and 2 years afterward. I always considered that not enough.
I can't imagine living in a country where you could be laid off before or even worse during your maternity leave.
honestly it is also hard for me to imagine living in the country i live in
Your former coworker should sue, too.
I've said it once and I'll say it again (even though I'm not a big fan of bungie's sketchy business practices and gameplay decisions). ALL GAME STUDIOS NEED TO FOLLOW BETHESDAS EXAMPLE AND UNIONIZE.
Pete is a piece of shit.
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Destiny 2 is where I stopped giving a shit about anything Bungie does....
That would be destiny 1 season pass for me. Why am i paying for what's on the disc twice...?
I'm not a console player, so I had to wait till the sequel to have that shit happen to me. All I knew was "People like this Destiny thing, maybe Destiny 2 will be awesome?"
With Destiny 2 they kept releasing expansion packs every five seconds and actively removing older content from the game making me not sure which expansion packs will actually do anything, and confusing the shit out of newer players who can't keep up with the lore because older story missions were removed.
I liked the base game, but... then we had like 3 expansion packs drop in 6 months, and in that time we had to migrate the accounts from Blizzard to Steam, and all the packs were about the price of a whole new game....
They dragged me in to the MMOFPS concept, and immediately kicked me out when I didn't want to whale. Or at least, that's what it felt like
Oof. That whole last paragraph describes my relationship with Rockstar and GTA online.
They lost me after Halo Reach.
It was great in the beginning. But yeah I'm not sure why anyone trusts the leadership who pulled a bait and switch on their customers.
Really need to have a clear definition of "stay afloat"
Stockholm syndrome, man...
Right but this was before maternity leave started. I'm saying that promises of mat leave are important at conception and nowhere on earth does a company end up on the hook for maintaining their mat leave policy based on when you conceived
Relying on maternity money from a company is really some third world shit. It should be provided by the state. Now the company is welcome to add further compensation and that's a nice perk but it shouldn't be needed.
If the company offers it the company must make good on the promise come time. That's all I'm saying.
Free healthcare is obviously a requirement for civilization, as is maternal leave.
I'm saying that the companies themselves cannot have empty promises like this. The act of conception was at very least influenced by the company's offer of maternal leave.
They should be on the hook - Make good what you have promised.
Your initial comment reads like the opposite of that.
It was supposed to be a reply in the other chain, idk why it became a to level comment...
Ahhh, makes more sense in that respect
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