fucking unionize - 08 march 2024

this post was ported over from my old website. hello! it has been awhile since my last devlog, and no devlog today. i am just here utilizing my blog to share a little bit of good news :) for those who do not know, i am a former activision QA worker who lost my job when the company refused my medical accommodations and tried to force me to come back to the office. i worked remotely for almost 3 years, but then they forced RTO. i had a pending disability accommodation with them for nearly a year with documentation from my doctor, had very little communication (with the one person accommodations team for the entire company, might i add), and they denied it.

when i left in january, i asked my coworkers to do one thing: make it a place that they are overjoyed to work, and that boby kotick (who in 2009 said his goal was to take all the fun out of making games) would have hated.

part of my goodbye letter to my coworkers

today, microsoft recognized their union, the biggest union in game development. i'm so fucking proud of them.