GW Employment Practices

One guy who doesn't feel he was paid enough, and another who found her role had changed when she was off on maternity leave and her duties had been taken on by others in her team - and later got made redundant because of structural/strategic changes at the company. None of that sounds particularly unusual for a large company that's been undergoing big changes in the last few years. There's also two sides to every story, but for obvious HR/legal reasons you can't hear GW's take on these two ex-employees.

Not surprised given all big companies are greedy, stingy and self-centred. Nothing new here.

Not really, given a lot of people run smaller companies not so obsessed with profit or dominating the market, some run not-for-profit organisations and some don’t run companies at all because they’ve found other ways to be successful.



That’s debatable given the prices of Forge World models, Finecast and their most recent plastic kits are excruciating 😖

I know that the desire to see your business successful, maximizing profit and showing excellent signs of susainability are foremost among small business owners minds, as are other aspects, and I'm sure that same drive never really goes away, even after the business has grown large and beyond single owner's ability to run by themselves. These owner hire additional staff to help take on the additional roles in the company who show that drive to keep pushing the company to new heights, and they in turn, do the same, etc.

GW is no different. They're just much, much larger. They wouldn't be where they are if they hadn't shown that same drive. Every single company this size WILL have disgruntled employees, which is what is happening here. Stories will always be spun in the complainers favor. As seen here. Fact is, if someone is spending half their time at work, looking at their phone, or talking about being somewhere else, or planning what they'll do for supper, etc., then, yeah, they'll be fired. And I'm sure that from their perspective, they were an exemplary employee. Question is, would they ACTUALLY want someone behaving in the same manner for them, if they were trying to run their own start-up? Probably not.

All this being said, I'm sure GW has LOTS of applicants who are huge fanboys and just excited to "be a part of the game". I'm sure they take full advantage of this, knowing that there's always more fanboys lined up outside, just looking for a way in. I'm sure most mid-level dept. managers think that simply replacing people who want raises, or climb ladders keeps their budgets lower and more impressive to their bosses, but the lost time from production in interviewing, shifting responsibilities and training, costs so much more. Unfortunately, this sort of story happens all the time in major companies. This is nothing new.

Well GW obviously have made great products as it’s in all time high.

Just because they make what other likes and not me does not make it an evil corp.

Even though I dislike cow elves and shark elves does not mean it is a bad business direction if other do like it.

I just hope enough people buy ToW or GW will definitely think ditching it a good move and leave it as a niche product.

In the end they will produce what we will buy. Only sales can justify bringing it back and have a team keep developing it.