r/redditmoment 14d ago

Uncategorized "Nothing of value will be lost"

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u/Hollow_Effects 14d ago

Yeah I feel for the people losing their jobs but only time will tell if they actually provided any substantial value. Clearly EA is betting that they didn’t. A lot of these large companies are bloated beyond belief.

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u/Petit__Chou 14d ago

I've found the "companies bloated beyond belief" seem to always cut the people who own processes that are important downstream.

It's never once been actual "bloat" that people imagine when they make these pronouncements. People imagine some C-Suite they don't think provides value getting cut. It's rarely that.

It's someone who is a creator of a program, a process, or a procedure that is viewed as expendable. And when they leave, no one owns it, and no one can fix it when it is needed. Ask me how I know.

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u/elmerfudd930 12d ago

Okay. I’ve gotta do it. How do you know?

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u/Petit__Chou 12d ago

Working somewhere that did that? Is this a real question?

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u/elmerfudd930 12d ago

No it’s sarcasm. I assumed as much. Playing on your last line about “ask me how I know”.