Poll of the Day > john riccitiello, unity killer, has been fired from unity effective immediate

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1711480255624417549

Damn wrecked.

Won't mean shit, at his level getting fired doesn't carry any weight, he'll just pop up somewhere else as the head of some other company if he doesn't decide to retire, but his types are rarely satisfied to not be ruining companies and peoples lives.

It genuinely doesn't matter, the dude is a massive sack of shit and that is a positive part of the resume to become CEO for some reason. He'll have another job in the industry in a week and then he will try to think of some way to destroy that company too.

Llloool. Bet they saw downloads of Unity drop off a cliff.

Still using Godot. Too much fun.

BlackScythe0 posted...

It genuinely doesn't matter, the dude is a massive sack of shit and that is a positive part of the resume to become CEO for some reason. He'll have another job in the industry in a week and then he will try to think of some way to destroy that company too.

Yeah, he was already booted as CEO for EA and he landed the Unity gig less than a year later. I've never understood why companies just seem to trade shit CEO's around.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Yeah, he was already booted as CEO for EA and he landed the Unity gig less than a year later. I've never understood why companies just seem to trade shit CEO's around.

Cuz they're "nobility"

Lokarin posted...

Cuz they're "nobility"

Execs have literally never worked a real job in their lives but have successfully duped the world into thinking they're the only ones who can possibly work these positions

I haven't been able to find out what his golden parachute was. Because you know he got one, no matter how badly a CEO runs a company into the ground, they always fucking get one.
Can't say I'm that pleased given that he's going to escape this w/ no consequences nor insider trading jail sentences. Almost wish they had held onto him longer, just so his stock options in Unity would continue to lose more value.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Yeah, he was already booted as CEO for EA and he landed the Unity gig less than a year later. I've never understood why companies just seem to trade shit CEO's around.

These corporate execs all sit on the "executive boards" of each others' companies and circle jerk themselves raises and such. There is no accountability b/c they answer to themselves.

That's an exceptionally soulless-looking picture, even by CEO standards.

You'd think the head of the company would be someone with a lot of experience working IN the company, or at least working with companies like it.
But you'd be very wrong.

Zareth posted...

You'd think the head of the company would be someone with a lot of experience working IN the company, or at least working with companies like it.
But you'd be very wrong.

Nope, typically how it works is someone who has a good idea or is passionate about that industry makes a company with their goal being to provide the best goods/services and they get big off that but at some point the "business" people come in, you know the people who have never worked a day in their life and try to extract as much wealth as possible from customers with minimum viable product and cutting work conditions to the lowest levels they can.

Went to the dudes wiki page, he went from ice dream and sporting goods to EA. He probably has picked some stuff up over the decades but even if he has picked up a little bit he isn't going to care.