G.I. Joe Classified - News & Updates

Ru1977 said:
AND take pictures and tell Hasbro.

I picture two goofballs who have your address flagged so they can make sure the defective ones always get sent there. I know I'm a paranoid person but this pattern is too apparent!
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Take the pictures and submit the receipt through their site customer service. You'll get the mystery gift replacement on top of correcting it yourself.
 
Another Ramen tank for Transformer fans:

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Unfortunately it feels like a lot of folks (like the WotC / MTG team) are hitting the "we need to unionize" moment too late in late stage capitalism. I'm kinda consulting for some folks looking to unionize at their organization and truly right now every corporation is in full on revenge mode for the Great Resignation and like fuck your union, we'll just hire someone who's been out of work because of AI for the last 18 months.
 
Alt said:
I guess when your top guy is a Cocks, it's gonna be as advertised after a while.
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I have heard, but cannot confirm if this is true, that Hasbro leadership is leaning HARD on basically everyone in the company to start using AI in their jobs. This is -mostly- confirmed to be true where WotC is concerned, although it's not the only major complaint the WotC employees have (constant pump-and-dump structure where you force out loads of product and then fire most of the people that made it, treating salaried workers more like on-demand gig workers being a huge problem as well).

But my understanding is that this push on WotC for more AI generated content is just as prevalent on the Transformers, Joe, and Marvel teams being pushed on to use AI for basically any element of their work that it could -in theory- be used for, if AI actually did the things dumb-as-fuck rich people think it does.
 
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Damien said:
I have heard, but cannot confirm if this is true, that Hasbro leadership is leaning HARD on basically everyone in the company to start using AI in their jobs. This is -mostly- confirmed to be true where WotC is concerned, although it's not the only major complaint the WotC employees have (constant pump-and-dump structure where you force out loads of product and then fire most of the people that made it, treating salaried workers more like on-demand gig workers being a huge problem as well).

But my understanding is that this push on WotC for more AI generated content is just as prevalent on the Transformers, Joe, and Marvel teams being pushed on to use AI for basically any element of their work that it could -in theory- be used for, if AI actually did the things dumb-as-fuck rich people think it does.
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I heard the opposite from some folks who do freelance for them when they talk to the fulll-timers. A couple of industry analysts I follow said Hasbro's got the least pro-AI push to the point where their stock dropped based on some statements from the CEO about AI use a few months back.

That being said, Hasbro is in a CONSTANT cycle of hire/lay off / hire / lay off and I'm sure that is just intolerable for anyone working there. I'm constantly seeing jobs on their creative teams I'm qualified for and just ignore them because it's not a dream job if it's just an 18 month contract pretending to be a full time gig.

(EDIT: Also their in-office requirement is dumb as fuck considering how it limits the talent pool. I bet they pushed the Joes team to move to Boston and when they looked at relocation costs started peacing out.)
 
docsilence said:
I heard the opposite from some folks who do freelance for them when they talk to the fulll-timers. A couple of industry analysts I follow said Hasbro's got the least pro-AI push to the point where their stock dropped based on some statements from the CEO about AI use a few months back.

That being said, Hasbro is in a CONSTANT cycle of hire/lay off / hire / lay off and I'm sure that is just intolerable for anyone working there. I'm constantly seeing jobs on their creative teams I'm qualified for and just ignore them because it's not a dream job if it's just an 18 month contract pretending to be a full time gig.

(EDIT: Also their in-office requirement is dumb as fuck considering how it limits the talent pool. I bet they pushed the Joes team to move to Boston and when they looked at relocation costs started peacing out.)
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Fair. Like I said, it's just something I heard and not from a source I'd say has enough perfect inside information to be 'I believe this 100%.' It does track with what so many other companies are doing and all it takes is one guy to think it's really good idea and now that's what the company is doing.
I'm pretty sure it was also mentioned in WotC's complaints that they do not want to be expected or asked to use AI for any element of their jobs. But maybe that's just a very smart preemptive demand.
 
Saw an article yesterday that one of Mattel's shareholders suggested they sell to private equitybor to Hasbro. It's sad how shitty the business of making something that brings joy turns out.
 
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