This is probably the only answer to save your game and perhaps the company as a whole. Pete Parsons as well as the other higher ups at Bungie need to step down immediately.
Under paid staff, not holding your end of the bargain, producing less content in your game, bundles that are pure scams, and bragging to your under paid staff about your car collection while they can’t even make enough to meet ends meet? Seriously?
This game is in complete shambles because of Parsons and the other higher ups at Bungie.
You also did not, by law, give your fellow employees 30 days in advance a “heads up” regarding this wave of layoffs. If I was in their shoes, I would hire an attorney. A severance package is not enough.
I knew Bungie employees had issues working under Pete Parsons, but something deeper is going on. It needs to be shared. Pete even turned his X page to private. What does that tell you?
There’s a lot of unanswered questions about this whole situation. Hopefully we will have a clear answer soon.
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1 AntwortenFirstly, it won't achieve anything. You and everyone else calling for this need to understand that. If he quits, he doesn't have to give any of his retention bonus back, nobody will get reinstated and nothing will change. Secondly 'bragging to your under paid staff about your car collection' has already been debunked - the employee in question had ASKED to see his car collection and did so back in 2022, before Bungie had even been acquired by Sony (not two days before as they claimed). Their salary was also $72,000 plus bonuses and healthcare - above the national average and better than most in her position in the industry. Thirdly, if you honestly believe that 'This game is in complete shambles because of Parsons and the other higher ups at Bungie.' you are naïve beyond belief and I'm willing to trade you some magic beans for that cow of yours. Screwing up [u]this badly[/u] is a real team effort. We are talking about abject failure from the ground up. After all, what did all that Sony money get spent on? Hiring staff. Bungie are still ridiculously overstaffed for a single live service game and an in-flight project so I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see more layoffs before the end of the year (and if Parsons is anywhere near competent he'll stop trying to be everyone's buddy and start cutting away some of the REAL dead wood). Lastly you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the W.A.R.N. act and if any of those employees hired an attorney, their first job would be to sue you for bad legal advice. Under the W.A.R.N. act: 'The WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act requires businesses who employ over 100 workers to either give their employees 60 days’ notice in writing of a mass layoff or plant closing, or to pay the employees if they fail to give the notice.' However, in order to qualify as a 'mass layoff': 'A mass layoff occurs under the WARN Act when: at least 50 employees are laid off during a 30-day period, if the laid-off employees made up at least one third of the workforce; 500 employees are laid off during a 30-day period, no matter how large the workforce; or an entire work site is closed down and at least 50 employees are laid off during a 30-day period.' None of those conditions were met, because it wasn't a third of the workforce, it was less than 500 staff and they didn't close the work site. People on this forum need to understand that there is a vast difference between what they believe is 'right' and 'fair' and the actual realities of life. Pete Parsons is a bad manager, but Bungie is rotten to its very core.