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Penny Arcade - Comic - Spacebobs
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Spacebobs
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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A CEO? Yeah, "least important person there" is absolutely accurate.
Please explain. I could use a laugh.
Gamers don’t want him because holy shit the quality of the games has gone downhill.
Employees don’t want him because pay is bad, job security sucks and the place is toxic.
Investors shouldn’t want him because he’s lied to them about how bad it is, been utterly gluttonous with his pay/bonuses and the stock is cratering.
Either fire him or blackmail him into quitting. Either way everyone else is better off with him gone.
This comic is not "lol capitalist dumb, managers useless" nonsense you see on other social media sites. This is "Bobby is a useless CEO who's actively harming the company he's supposed to be making money for. Getting rid of him would be a net benefit."
If wanting Bobby Kotick to be fired is communism, then literally everyone on Earth except Kotick and apparently you are communists.
Well, sometimes people are "asked to resign", which is a nice way of saying "we're going to fire you, but we're giving you a chance to keep [insert benefits of doing so here]". So there's probably some contracts, especially with higher-ups, that allow them to keep things like pensions if they resign.
And I'm sure he has enough friends who are also getting rich to keep that from happening.
What that usually translates to is "We will allow you to save face by saying you quit and by providing you with good references to your future employers. If you say know we will do everything we can legally get away with to make you miserable until you do."
I also like the shading in panel one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/11/17/bobby-kotick-resignation-shareholders/
At this point, even horrible right-wing organizations want him canceled:
https://kotaku.com/right-wing-group-wants-bobby-kotick-removed-from-coca-c-1848141069
(Okay, yeah, they have their reasons, but they at least agree with it as a fact that Kotick has done these things.)
Kotick: Who?
Handler: I think they run a blog, sir.
Kotick: Ugh. What are they saying?
Handler: They want to shoot you into space, sir.
Kotick: ... get Bezos on the line.
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That won't amount to much if the stock keeps tanking
I think it will come out to... carry the one... 30+%.
I know some of the other execs did some terrible things, and they got the boot, and now other mechanisms are in place to try to prevent it from happening again.
You missed some things. Kotick is also alleged to have fired someone in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment, and to have committed harassment himself, including a death threat.
Uh, what is 30% of zero again? Is is zero or more than that? Maths were never my strong suit.
Given that his mismanagement is cratering the stock value I’m thinking his “rich friends” are getting pretty pissed.
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As of right now the board is unanimously behind him... Which is usually the status quo with any board of directors until they "suddenly and unexpectedly" unanimously boot him or sell the whole company for scrap.
As usual, ignorant people's go to is that everything is a witch hunt.
The ole coach has the owners confidence until he's fired. Though again this is splashing on to things like the coke board which he sits on (its not surprising when you find out the mega rich insulate themselves and their friends from this kind of dance where they all sit on each others boards).
Also it seems especially idiotic considering Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all called for him to be removed. When the people you make games for want you gone that would scare a normal person but not a shit bird like Kotick.
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https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2021/12/03/bobby
to be honest I'm amazed they haven't done this already
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
The problem with ego is stepping down even to put a shadow person in place is admitting fault and clearly Bobby doesn't do that.
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The board chairman doesn't hire the CEO alone. It's a vote by the board. I have no idea how many seats he has captured, but I'm pretty sure the same people who want him out as CEO would want him out as chairman (or any board position).
That announcement came out before he was outed for covering shit up and personal liability (IE harasment he engaged in himself) and as such I'm willing to bet that they're wishing they'd waited a few more days before lashing themselves to the mast.
Boby Kotic [sic] is on page 36.
The issue with that is that the guy was incredibly well connected politically and also put about everyone he came into contact with in that book without any clear logic as to why. There's over 1500 names in it. And they're often incredibly mundane or counter-intuitive. For example, this bit from a Mother Jones article where the reporter tried to call everyone in the book:
There's plenty evidence of Kotick being a sleazebag without having to go that route.
Maybe if anyone could actually decipher the shadow marks he had next to all the names in the book something useful could be gleaned, but even people who cooperated with prosecutors claimed to knowledge of his private code. Without that, the damning connections are in his guest books at the island hideout and the pedo plane, which as far as I can tell Kotick hasn't been connected to.
But hey, Kotick is the guy who assaulted an employee, reached out to the board to help cover it up, and threatened to have her killed if she went to police. Why does anyone need to spin supposed connections to the Pedophile King? Is what we know somehow not enough? Is *that* the only line that still counts?