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Quote from: yosemitemike on April 21, 2024, 07:59:56 AMThe people who hired her are still there though.

Bingo! None of the C-Suite midwits will lose anything from this, which all the more terrible as they're just as retarded as Williams. The CEO of Hasbro certainly won't get ousted for running the company into the ground. The only thing that is saving them now is Monopoly Go, but whether that can turn it around or not is still up for debate.

Quote from: Theory of Games on April 17, 2024, 12:37:13 PMThose diversity hires just 'aint paying off as imaginated.

I wasn't aware that former Microsoft executive was considered an underrepresented minority category.

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 01:18:06 PM

Quote from: Theory of Games on April 17, 2024, 12:37:13 PMThose diversity hires just 'aint paying off as imaginated.

I wasn't aware that former Microsoft executive was considered an underrepresented minority category.

Greetings!

Williams is a WOMAN. Therefore, she certainly qualifies as much-needed diversity for the staff at WOTC. Especially so for being represented as a woman in the upper echelons of executives. It is well-known that within the patriarchal, misogynistic systems that dominate America, we need more WOMEN represented within the executive levels of every company.

You are slipping there in your consciousness and awareness there of properly promoting Feminism, comrade. You may need some additional instruction and training at the Feminist DEI summer camp.

Apparently, you have forgotten how "The Future is FEMALE!" Perhaps you are being corrupted by toxic masculinity and patriarchal thinking? There cannot be any wrongthink, COMRADE!

How dare you!

*LAUGHING*

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Yeah, I'm sure they hired her because she's a woman, and not because she's a former Microsoft executive with experience specifically chasing revenues from gamers and trying to monetize the human reward center of the brain.

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 02:16:22 PMYeah, I'm sure they hired her because she's a woman, and not because she's a former Microsoft executive with experience specifically chasing revenues from gamers and trying to monetize the human reward center of the brain.

  Given what I've observed of WotC, I imagine both were considered positives on her resume.

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 02:16:22 PMYeah, I'm sure they hired her because she's a woman, and not because she's a former Microsoft executive with experience specifically chasing revenues from gamers and trying to monetize the human reward center of the brain.

And yet she didn't do anything but make shit worse. Maybe her 'experience' wasn't all that was it cracked up to be and she was a 'Diversity Hire' at Microsoft?

Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on April 21, 2024, 04:06:52 PM

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 02:16:22 PMYeah, I'm sure they hired her because she's a woman, and not because she's a former Microsoft executive with experience specifically chasing revenues from gamers and trying to monetize the human reward center of the brain.

And yet she didn't do anything but make shit worse. Maybe her 'experience' wasn't all that was it cracked up to be and she was a 'Diversity Hire' at Microsoft?

The rationale for hiring her was destined to make things worse. Squeezing games like they were turnips full of gold coins was never going to work, long term.

Just to be real here, the fact that people are chattering about "diversity hires" is proof you are paying attention to what they want you to, and not at all what you should be. These people are not looking out for your bests interests. WotC is currently under a regime that is thinking purely on a quarterly basis, and does not care about its long-term business, or its customers, at all.

So yeah, keep talking about diversity hires, and not on hiring from a world where it's normal to rely on 14 year olds stealing their parents' wallets so they can spend $60 on some click game, as a business model.

Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on April 21, 2024, 01:00:30 PM

Quote from: yosemitemike on April 21, 2024, 07:59:56 AMThe people who hired her are still there though.

Bingo! None of the C-Suite midwits will lose anything from this, which all the more terrible as they're just as retarded as Williams. The CEO of Hasbro certainly won't get ousted for running the company into the ground. The only thing that is saving them now is Monopoly Go, but whether that can turn it around or not is still up for debate.

You need to remember that to the corporate masters EVERY property MUST be producing an ever increasing stream of profits.

Else they'll fire the middle to lower level employees (to reduce costs), give themselves a fat bonus and rinse and repeat.

UNLESS some megacorporation really turns back to profit I don't see anything changing for the better any time soon. You still need to see Blackrock et all power to diminish before that happens any other way than a mega corporation deciding to stop chasing the ESG score and turn back to profit.

Quote from: SHARK on April 21, 2024, 02:01:04 PM

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 01:18:06 PMI wasn't aware that former Microsoft executive was considered an underrepresented minority category.

Greetings!

Williams is a WOMAN. Therefore, she certainly qualifies as much-needed diversity for the staff at WOTC. Especially so for being represented as a woman in the upper echelons of executives. It is well-known that within the patriarchal, misogynistic systems that dominate America, we need more WOMEN represented within the executive levels of every company.

You are slipping there in your consciousness and awareness there of properly promoting Feminism, comrade. You may need some additional instruction and training at the Feminist DEI summer camp.

Apparently, you have forgotten how "The Future is FEMALE!" Perhaps you are being corrupted by toxic masculinity and patriarchal thinking? There cannot be any wrongthink, COMRADE!

How dare you!

*LAUGHING*

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Dude, you're arguing with someone that doesn't know the definition of woman.

What companies are finding out is that the promotion of diversity hires (to "kickstart" the numbers of qualified women and POCs) isn't resulting in a competent and diverse company, just a diverse one.  And with the economy the way it is, Blackrock and Vanguard aren't going to be able to prop up stupidity with other people's money forever...

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 04:49:59 PMSo yeah, keep talking about diversity hires, and not on hiring from a world where it's normal to rely on 14 year olds stealing their parents' wallets so they can spend $60 on some click game, as a business model.

You seem to be under the mistaken belief that those 2 things are mutually exclusive. They're not. And I stopped giving WotC money years ago. I'm just waiting for the conflagration to consume them so I can roast my marshmallows over the embers of their company.

Why to you guys continue to interact with Paws?  It's clear that he is a troll that's just trying to shit up the forum.

Quote from: Eirikrautha on April 21, 2024, 06:24:03 PM

Quote from: SHARK on April 21, 2024, 02:01:04 PM

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 01:18:06 PMI wasn't aware that former Microsoft executive was considered an underrepresented minority category.

Greetings!

Williams is a WOMAN. Therefore, she certainly qualifies as much-needed diversity for the staff at WOTC. Especially so for being represented as a woman in the upper echelons of executives. It is well-known that within the patriarchal, misogynistic systems that dominate America, we need more WOMEN represented within the executive levels of every company.

You are slipping there in your consciousness and awareness there of properly promoting Feminism, comrade. You may need some additional instruction and training at the Feminist DEI summer camp.

Apparently, you have forgotten how "The Future is FEMALE!" Perhaps you are being corrupted by toxic masculinity and patriarchal thinking? There cannot be any wrongthink, COMRADE!

How dare you!

*LAUGHING*

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Dude, you're arguing with someone that doesn't know the definition of woman.

What companies are finding out is that the promotion of diversity hires (to "kickstart" the numbers of qualified women and POCs) isn't resulting in a competent and diverse company, just a diverse one.  And with the economy the way it is, Blackrock and Vanguard aren't going to be able to prop up stupidity with other people's money forever...

Not to be argumentative, but from my vantage point all of those "diverse" hires in corporations trying to suck up to Lovecraftian Horror that is DEI have been "divisive" hires. So far, no company that I have seen do this has survived it unscathed.

When Williams was hired, a great deal was made of how she had gone from being the girl who was told that she couldn't play D&D to being the President of WotC in charge of D&D.  Shatter that glass ceiling!  Stunning and brave!  That will show the no one who said that girls couldn't play D&D back then.  There's a reason why people think she was hired at least partly because of the optics of hiring a woman.  I was rather more concerned about her comments about D&D being under-monetized at the time but the Stunning and Brave Woman thing was there and people noticed it.   

Quote from: Eirikrautha on April 21, 2024, 06:24:03 PM

Quote from: SHARK on April 21, 2024, 02:01:04 PM

Quote from: pawsplay on April 21, 2024, 01:18:06 PMI wasn't aware that former Microsoft executive was considered an underrepresented minority category.

Greetings!

Williams is a WOMAN. Therefore, she certainly qualifies as much-needed diversity for the staff at WOTC. Especially so for being represented as a woman in the upper echelons of executives. It is well-known that within the patriarchal, misogynistic systems that dominate America, we need more WOMEN represented within the executive levels of every company.

You are slipping there in your consciousness and awareness there of properly promoting Feminism, comrade. You may need some additional instruction and training at the Feminist DEI summer camp.

Apparently, you have forgotten how "The Future is FEMALE!" Perhaps you are being corrupted by toxic masculinity and patriarchal thinking? There cannot be any wrongthink, COMRADE!

How dare you!

*LAUGHING*

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Dude, you're arguing with someone that doesn't know the definition of woman.

What companies are finding out is that the promotion of diversity hires (to "kickstart" the numbers of qualified women and POCs) isn't resulting in a competent and diverse company, just a diverse one.  And with the economy the way it is, Blackrock and Vanguard aren't going to be able to prop up stupidity with other people's money forever...

Greetings!

*LAUGHING*! Yes, very true, my friend. Thank you for reminding me.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK