Shirasho

Nobody wants to invest 2 months paycheck into hardware that the developer is going to drop support for in 6 months.

Hardware is too expensive for the average Joe to buy and those of us who can afford it are tired of being burned by companies that provide subpar service then drop support for the thing. Cool, bleeding edge tech means little if there is little use for it or if nobody can afford it.

For a brief moment I worked in that industry as a programmer. The whole point is not to find the most qualified candidate but to find the one that fits into the company culture the most in order to reduce turnover. These algorithms will throw away applications from people of color because they have "behaviors not in line with the company culture" or applications from disabled people because they would "not react properly to certain situations".

Of course they aren't explicitly rejecting these people, but the questions and answers on the tests for applications are specifically and painstakingly crafted to filter out these people without making it clear what type of person the question is trying to filter out.

This doesn't necessarily have to do with the AI in question, but my point is that the entire hiring/firing process is totally fucked, and companies are constantly looking for ways to get around discrimination laws.

Thankfully the game is completing itself so I don't have to play it.

The term betrayal implies they once had the peoples' best interest in mind and were working on their behalf. The party may have betrayed the people 200 years ago, but what we are seeing today is not a betrayal.

I'm not sure if this is really part of it, but they do have physicals every year. They check things like weight, height, and strength.

Look at this another way. If they force you to come in, that is illegal containment. If they yell at you for taking sick leave then that is a hostile environment that you should leave ASAP. Try to look for other opportunities. You should never have to feel guilty for taking off work due to illness unless that illness is caused by sheer stupidity on your side (like overdrinking or running naked in the rain for a few hours).

In game dev.

January hasn't ended yet and we are at 60% of the total layoffs of last year.

Can't just post this and NOT post recommendations.

Opt-in polling is so bad. It means you only get answers from people with strong opinions. They are polls where the results are shaped like a U instead of a bell curve so it rarely represents the actual 95 percentile.

Or how frequently management stops adding new features to address tech debt.