6mo ago

"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says

www.videogamer.com "My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says

A former Bungie employee was laid off just a week before they were due to start maternity leave, they have said.

That Bethesda Union looking even better now.

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6mo ago

"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says

www.videogamer.com /news/my-maternity-leave-was-supposed-to-start-next-monday-and-i-got-laid-off-today-former-bungie-employee-says/

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6mo ago

"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says

www.videogamer.com /news/my-maternity-leave-was-supposed-to-start-next-monday-and-i-got-laid-off-today-former-bungie-employee-says/

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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.
- ✋ I'll bring the Styrofoam and gasoline.
  
  If you form explosives into the cone-shaped bottom of a wine bottle, it will make a shaped charge that can wreck an engine block.
  
  You can also just pour sand into the gas tank.
- He also thinks if they find out they'll kill him which is why his twitter is private so he can brag in person
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Your former coworker should sue, too.
  
  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.

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.

America is a savage country that hates its women.
How come maternity or even better parental leave ever on the agenda?
What about making employers justify layoffs beyond daddy said it's good?
Nothing that would matter to every working person is ever on the agenda, then we wonder how corpos can do this to us.
- America is a savage country that hates everyone that is not rich.
  
  That's more like it. I got laid off last year after 5 years. I work in IT and trying to find a job in my field is a miserable process. They'll string you along for weeks and then be like "no thanks". The application process is a nightmare as well.
- Have you seen or politicians (on the right especially)? They're decrepit, weird ghouls.
  
  Gereatric nepo babies do b like that.
- New law:
  If you got pregnant with an employer's promise of maternity leave they should be on the hook for all 9 months.
  They can either keep you on and get work out of you or they can fire you 2 months in but they're paying you all 9 months + 3 month maternity leave post partum.
  
  Here in France it is punishable by law to fire someone during a maternity leave. This should be the norm, and then some.
- All the old people think women shouldn't be working so they are against pro-natal workplace policies and a disturbingly large amount of young people are doom-pilled enough they think pro-natal workplace policies are unfair to them because they don't want to have kids.
  
  Yeas we should make policy around desires of gereatrics...
  Nothing savage about it!
  Also, I doubt anyone ever considered what 25 year old wany besides if it benefits the regime

Land of the free home of the brave. Welcome to the american dream. it isn’t for you
- "They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
  St. George Carlin

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
- 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...
- That really is understated and underfocused on. They're trying to save face and be hire-able, but the reality is that "stay afloat" means millions spent on vintage cars while people like that family struggle towards their future. Stay afloat my ass. It's the sneering face of evil greed that equates to "staying afloat".
  
  Just trying to survive, man... Paycheck to paycheck (that's thrown into Uncle Scrooges money bin).

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.

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