Bungie CEO Pete Parsons – Recently, Bungie developers conducted mass layoffs of their employees. The layoffs also involved several staff such as Executives and Senior Leaders. The layoffs occurred due to increasing development costs, industry shifts and difficult economic conditions being the reasons behind the layoffs.
Meanwhile, when the mass layoffs occurred at Bungie, Bungie’s CEO received harsh criticism because he was found guilty.
Bungie CEO Criticized for Spending Millions on Cars During Mass Layoffs
What really happened?
Some time ago, Twitter account DestinyNostalgi discovered a profile named bngpparsons on the auction site, Bring A Trailer. The account is known to belong to Pete Parsons, Bungie’s CEO.
Since Bungie was acquired by Sony in 2022, Parsons has bid on and purchased more than 20 classic cars on the site. In total, Parsons has spent approximately $2.4 million.
You can see tweet-it’s below.
In fact, four of them were purchased after the mass layoffs in 2023 and in total cost around $386,000. In addition, there are also several photos on Flickr showing Parsons inspecting the cars in a large garage.
On X/Twitter, Parsons also posted a photo of a car that looked exactly like the one being auctioned on the Bring A Trailer site.
Former Bungie Employees Are Upset
Many former employees were upset to learn this information.
Despite the fact that the cars were purchased using Parsons’ own money, many have wondered why Bungie didn’t take a pay cut for Parsons that might have saved the lives of several other employees.
Liana Rupert, a former Bungie Community Manager, even expressed her frustrations while working there via X/Twitter. She said that on the Friday before the first layoff, when she and the other CMs were talking about how they didn’t have enough money to go shopping.
Bungie
Then Parsons approached them and bragged about the new expensive car he had bought, and invited them to his house to see it.
You can see tweet-it’s below.
I remember the Friday before the first layoffs, me and another CM were in the lobby and I was literally talking about how I didn’t have enough money for groceries and that employee services was an angel for helping me have food since I was told to drop all of my side jobs when…
— Liana Ruppert (@DirtyEffinHippy) July 31, 2024
That’s the information about Bungie’s CEO getting criticized when it was discovered that he bought an expensive car when many of the company’s employees were being laid off en masse. What do you think about this news?
Also read other interesting information from Gamebrott related to Bungie or other articles from Aroged Author. For further information and other inquiries, you can contact us via aroged.
