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The Most Memorable Desert Bus for Hope "Moment" Tournament
[Currently Open for Voting] Meta Group, Round of 16 - https://forms.gle/pUad9bNhSL2U5tL16
A couple weeks back, we asked the community for their favorite Desert Bus for Hope moments, and then PJ spen...
![A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows:
Herman (Paul Reubens) meets a charismatic surfer (Patrick Swayze) who is involved with more than water. Tyler: Lori Petty.
7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min.
Riker receives a distress call from his clone, Tom, who has escaped prison. Geordi tells the story of when he had to choose between becoming an Engineer or a Literacy Advocate. Transporter chief: Fran Drescher.
[SCI] MOVIE(CC)—Science Fiction; 2 hrs.
“A Jaws in King Arthur’s Court.” Roy Scheider.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yulpnkidj3dkdip5ma3c3ssn/bafkreidgah645qwkovnnplomnkm3zhiziesyg2q3apzy2b3gi4c5277kje)
![“We really started mobilizing as one Blizzard unit in [the] last couple of months, and I think that really helped put the pressure on,” Paul Cox, senior game designer on World of Warcraft, told Aftermath.
"I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment."
Prior to spring of this year, the WoW team, which unionized in 2024, had gotten the lion's share of bargaining time. Other units found themselves stuck in the mud. Higher-ups were effectively stalling the whole process—unfortunately nothing new for unionized workers under Microsoft’s umbrella.
"For this whole year of bargaining on the Diablo side—and I imagine on the rest of the units as well—we received so few [bargaining] dates, but we kind of had the understanding that whatever WoW was able to win would at least influence and set the floor for the rest of our units,” Diablo senior environment artist Mahreen Fatima told Aftermath. “We adopted this messaging about how WoW's wins are our wins, so we should be out there mobilizing with them. But truly, I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment this last month to finally be able to say, 'OK, yes, we are willing to extend this contract to everyone.' We really did not have any indication that we could get this done until last month."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreih6u6gzajbd63dovnmlnc43z5g6i35d3n735rrdkopipyjopkl72e)
![Comic: Aerospace Engineer Problem-Solving Flowchart. [Start→Could we solve this problem by building giant airships again?→(No)→Try other solutions→(four arrows leading off-panel)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiazznauvx4jxzubkairbedbknh2k66oswplocckj347h4fwlyljyu)
