Unity closes offices due to ‘credible death threat’
www.polygon.com
The closures come after a week of controversy around a new pricing model

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5340114

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Original Discussion[1]

San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unity’s San Francisco office “regarding a threats incident.” A “reporting party” told police that “an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media.” The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.

  1. https://lemmy.world/post/5057297 ↩︎

    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
      90·
      9 months ago

      People with passion wanted to work on a great project only to see how the vision was corrupted and turned into a monster.

      Like, the regular employee isn’t excited about shit changes either.

    • muse@kbin.social
      381·
      9 months ago

      Either someone hates to see their company burn to the ground and responded in an extremely immature way, or a higher up went “let’s get this public town hall canceled in a way that people feel sorry for us. SIMMONS! MAKE A DEATH THREAT NOW!”

      The former seems the most likely, but I always hold out hope that it’s middle management being a dumbass as corporate’s gonna corporate

      • Kichae@kbin.social
        30·
        9 months ago

        Oh, I imagine working conditions there have gotten worse in recent times, too. The kind of leadership that fucks over their clients like this don’t start with those clients. They treat everyone as a resource to be exploited, and employees are the ones they can abused most readily.

        The public furor over the pricing model is the opportunity, not the motive.

      • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
        19·
        9 months ago

        The CEO and his cronies don’t understand that people work for more than money. They think all people come into work just to do what is required to get money or, if there is ambition, to rise through the ranks and make more money or have ideas that make more money.

        However, there are people, especially in projects like this, that are also there because they believe in something. Believe that they can help creating something special that helps people. Unity has it’s dominance among other things because it’s an easy to use and easy to learn tool that enables people to create games that would’ve otherwise had trouble getting into development.

        • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

          Be passionate about your work! Right up to the point where you start disagreeing with how I am bastardising it… then you can fuck off.

          • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
            13·
            9 months ago

            Are you working something you hate?

            A lot of people are fine working what they love for a company, surely there are issues, but not all companies are batshit and ruin their product.

            • scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              6·
              9 months ago

              It’s not so black and white though. Passion jobs are often exploited because people will put up with it more and there is higher demand for those types of jobs.

              Your best bet is to find something that is interesting and nice enough to keep you content and not bored to death but not so enthralling that you feel like working unpaid overtime or what ever. Bonus points if it’s paid relatively well.