>The down votes are flowing but in reality unions can be terrible for a workforce if managed incorrectly. They are sadly extremely important though.

That's fine, but I was just speaking about my specific workplace though. Wasn't commenting on all workplaces in the economy.

Unions might be great for some businesses, but for my previous workplace, it was terrible and I, and other employees who were really damn good at their jobs all left over the next few years.

>Both are absolutely hemorrhaging employees because they have terrible managers that only received their positions because of nepotism.

That'll never work. If you're employing people based on things other than experience, education, talent and fit for the work culture, it's likely not going to work out. Nobody wants to work for a business run by nepotism. Great way to lose talent. I don't know if nepotism is more prevalent in strongly unionized workplaces, but even without the union, they're going to crumble given enough time.

I mean you can look at my post history to see if I'm some sort of troll, which I'm clearly not.

Don't get why people dismiss others experiences for no reason.

Not copy pasta at all, it happened to me.

It's probably a familiar story because it's not unusual for something like that to happen.

Unions ruined my previous workplace. We used to get bonuses depending on performance. I'm on a 6 figure job and I'd get an extra $30-$40k per year with the bonus, which was great.

Then the union movement started at work, employees voted to unionize and the unions negotiated with management for some crappy % salary increase, year on year but in return bonuses were removed and it also reduced promotions.

I ended up leaving because I was making less than I was pre-unionization. Idiots who were bad employees couldn't get fired because the union protected them and they kept getting shifted from team to team because no manager wanted them on their team. People would magically start taking sick days on very important days in our year when we needed the most people at work, again management couldn't touch them because they were protected. Productive workers like me were given more and more work because the bad employees did less and less, so I was having to pick up the additional work, which would have been fine with me, except bonuses had been removed and promotions were gone. So there was no point for me to put in the effort I used to and I'd be better off slacking off like the rest of the idiots, put in minimal effort and just take that 3% pay rise year on year.

Unionizing just totally ruined the culture of the workplace. It turned into a shithole daycare centre for adults rather than a productive workplace.

THEN THEY WOLL BIY SONY AND NINTNEDO AND APPLE AND GOOGLW

WAKE UP SHEEPLE WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!!

>It does not have to be a pure monopoly.

Then it's not a monopoly. A monopoly is the absence of competition. Gaming is extremely competitive with many players in the industry both from hardware (Nintendo, Sony, Valve, Meta, NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, Google etc) and software (the millions of game developers who aren't owned by Microsoft).

Even if Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard goes through, gaming is still extremely competitive with many players in the industry. So it's not at all remotely close to a monopoly.

>Call of Duty alone is normally the top two selling games each year. That’s a huge amount of power.

Just because a franchise might be popular and might be exclusive to a console doesn't mean a monopoly. Are there games available on non-Microsoft products? Yes. Are there other shooters available on other platforms? Yes.

Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Mario, Smash Bros, Pokemon and Zelda games are huge sellers and are only available on the Nintendo consoles. Better contact the FTC!

How the hell is that a monopoly? What market power. Microsoft is third in market share, behind Sony and Nintendo. Even if this acquisition makes Xbox skyrocket in sales, doesn't mean it's a monopoly.

Do Nintendo & Sony no longer exist as hardware competitors? Do Nintendo, Sony, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Square, Capcom etc no longer exist as game developers?

How the hell is this even close to a monopoly? Everyone who wants to buy a videogame has to purchase an Xbox now? What?