Right, because when you start a job that represents a lifetime obligation for the company to keep you gainfully employed.

But we're family, right?

Start your own business, hire people and treat them well. When people keep working for shitheads, the shitheads dictate their lives.

That's the problem: in many fields, you won't be able to compete with the shitheads financially, because they can be much cheaper.

I think their stock has tanked a lot recently in the past month, so maybe there's that.

and shot up after this layoff reporting.

Fuck this * world.

> When will enough be enough?

In the general sense, when governments adopt legislation to outlaw employee hostile practices.

Like it has always been, for all of history.

When factories exploded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, workers were made to suffer and die by capitalists hands for profit by the millions. Decades of suffering later workers fought to get protection in the form of safety regulation, minimum working conditions, paid overtime, and a 40 hour work week.

People seem to have forgotten how much blood was shed to acquire those contemporarily "basic" rights.

> When will enough be enough?

https://www.gameworkersunite.org/

No one is stopping people from making their own game instead of working for scam artist employers. It's a lesson best learned early in life.

Imagine if [insert_successful_indy_dev_here] thought it was a good idea to gun for a 30k/year job at a big box shop because he thought it would impress his high school buddies instead of actually making his own good games.

It's okay, they didn't get fired; they're just being scaled down!

So is it illegal to fire people?