Executives and politicians very commonly "resign" rather than be fired. It's a way to let people save face. I seriously doubt that his departure was coincidental.Mr.K. said:
Unless you work for Bioware, where it's high-fives all around.Zombie_Moogle said:
Indeed, you can be an asshole and say stupid shit but that doesn't mean you aren't going get your ass beat for it! :3TIMESWORDSMAN said:
Callex said:
You have to keep in mind that companies such as Microsoft rely VERY heavily on their public appearance. If you have one of your executives going around saying essentially "If you don't have good internet by now, fuck you" - even sarcastically or jokingly with a friend - in a VERY public manner...well, do the termms "PR Nightmare" mean anything to you? It's the same as that asshat that worked for the 3rd party game controller company, that guy that went around saying that he knew celebrities, game studio CEOs, and even mayors while insulting the customers. Granted, his douchebaggery was in emails, but as soon as those emails went public he got kicked to the curb.IronMit said:
I heard that as well but conversations like that shouldn't be had on Twitter. The downside to being in a position like his is that you have to be careful with what you say while being publicly recorded.Ultratwinkie said:
Sounds a hell of a decision to make. Resign so you're not fired from a job that future employers will be aware of, or be fired so he can actually have a severance package...JemothSkarii said:
His fault. He should have lived somewhere with a better connection to the employment server. #DealWithItGrouchy Imp said:
Usually I'm against holding things people do on their own time against them, but I think you're right that in this case it's justified. Twitter is a public forum, it's not like Facebook where most people have an expectation of privacy. If a high level employee of a company posts something about that company on twitter, it comes across as an official statement, whether it's meant to be or not. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of holding twitter against people without looking at the circumstances[footnote]for example, that 17 year old in the UK who got fired from her job for something she posted when she was 14, that shouldn't have happened.[/footnote], but this is a case where it looks justified. Whether it was for upsetting the customers or letting the cat out of the bag about the always online DRM, that was a dumb move on his part. Especially because it came off as really insensitive and out of touch -- there's wide sections of the United States where the people are spread too thin to justify anything faster than dial up to the service providers, unless you want to pay through the nose for satellite internet, which is only marginally faster. People on the coasts have a bad habit of forgetting that about the people in the middle of the country, and I say this as a Floridian. We have great internet, by US standards. Which are terrible by international standards, but I digress.Ken Sapp said:
Well for me the choice was easy enough; Resign so I'd have another reference. Granted I worked in a customer servicey kind of place and the circumstances which lead to my resignation were completely different (health reasons), but considering the reactions that he got to himself...I'd say that was the choice he got considering the absolute shitstorm he kicked up.Binnsyboy said:
I'm sorry, but regardless of how he may have tried to save face after the fact, the guy still acted like an idiot and basically caused a PR nightmare for his employer by all but publicly saying that their customers could go fuck themselves if they didn't like the sound of an always online console.Callex said:
My suspicion is that yes, always online was in fact part of the core design of the New XBox. But MS is in a state of quiet panic over that after seeing the disasters that were Diablo 3, and in particular the pure evil that was the SimCity release, and the public backlash against the concept. So they are scambling to either spin the feature or figure out a way to rip it out this late in development. Regardless they do not want to talk about it this close to the Simcity debacle, because their is no way that that benefits them. Tying their systems functionality to Simcity's flaws in the consumers minds will increase Sony's PS4 sales. As I said, they have been trying to lay low and not talk about this in any way until gamer outrage over the concept of always online dies down a bit.GAunderrated said:
