Bethesda Workers Go On Strike Against Microsoft

As a person who has worked in the office and knows many people who has worked in the office as well. Let me explain to you in the most basic and short way possible of why they are so hell bent on wanting to get remote work.

First of all, the main point of ever being at the office is that the office offered you tools equipment, and supplies that you couldn't get yourself and was outside of your budget even if you worked at the job. That was the main reason so many office workers worked at the office in the early 2000s and further back. Nowadays technology has advanced so much that all you need is a few hundred dollar computer (versus a few thousand dollars one back in the day), a few monitors (which only costs a few hundred dollars), and a stable Internet connection (which literally everyone has even in the poorest parts of the US). All of this can be purchased for about $800 to as low as $400. This is on top of the fact that a lot of the physical media that you would have handled at an office back in the day is completely obsolete. No papers. no physical documents, and flat-out no physical content to be handled between coworkers at all. Also, most people just have this type of setup at home off the cuff.

Second, the commute to these jobs is even more of a pain in the ass now than it was back in the day. Because there are more cars on the road than the 90s or 80s let alone the Seventies 60s and 50s, and I'm not even going to get into the 40s. Plus, this leads to the Third Point.

Third, productivity isn't even up when people work at the office over working remotely. As a matter of fact, a lot of workers can work better from home than they work at the office. Because office workers are less stressed out than when they're at the office. Because they usually have management breathing down their neck to meet productivity goals. Which does a reverse effect, and makes workers less likely to hit those goals.

In short: if I can buy the equipment with my own money for cheap that's just as good as what they would have given me at the job, I don't need to handle physical documentation at the job, I can get to work faster because I don't have to drive there, and productivity is the same if not better from home. Then why the hell should I even be in the office, over working remotely?

Riddle me that.

I don't see how having to go into the office two days a week is all that onerous. It wasn't that long ago that people didn't have remote work options. I think they got spoiled and that's why they're fighting it. In some cases, people from different parts of the country (and the world) were able to get these positions, but since it is at-will employment, they have the right and the ability to make this change.

I don't get it, EVERYTHING Microsoft touches becomes and issue. The OG xbox is one of my if not my favorite console of all time. Ever since then their quality has gone downhill over and over to the point i don't know why they even exist except for software. After going through nine 360's due to rrd, 3 xbox one due to disc read issues. To now have 0 exclusives, its really a bummer because I had high hopes for them. Between poor marketing and leadership from spensor and destroying high quality acquisitions I'm really concerned. I hope they get their stuff turned around, We need more then Nintendo and Sony.

Bethesda has a Quality Assurance department?

Starfield is a good game, it has some boring stretches. The only thing I didn't care for was the ending. I'm sorry people are so critical these days if you think you can make a better game then get to it and stop complaining.

they need to be in the office two days of the week and they are complaining that they need more flexibility?
this is really gets out of hand, I say if they don't want to do their job, fire the lot and get new ones.
if someone doesn't like the requirements of their workplace, they should just quit and look for another job, simple as that.

Oh no!

Anyway.

/clarkson

Like all big tech bros, remote work is finished by jan 2025.

All MS needs to do is stall for one more month. They can strike all they want since there is nothing on bethesda pipeline, great opportunity for people in the area to snag average paying office work with benefits.