Cold Uber eats means Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks moves entire company to Boston and dumps life-long employees right before Xmas?https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2026/10/22/hasbro-ceo-explains-pawtucket-to-boston-move.htmlHere's the entire interview without a paywall.https://www.wbur.org/events/1107224/wbur-breakfast-club-chris-cocks-hasbro"If you're in the business of Fandom you have to care about communities." That dude doesn't care about his people OR the community.
>>11928182Why can't he just live in Boston and leave everything else where it is? CEOs are so stupid. Do you just lose all common fucking sense when you reach a position of power?
BasedHe needs his slop
>>11928194There is probably some subsedaries he can access in Boston. >>11928182>and dumps life-long employees right before Xmas?Let me guess he proposes that they just can move with the company?
>>11928203He's dumping anyone that won't go to Boston WITHOUT severance or unemploymentHe literally contacted the media to say its NOT a lay off and these people would be resigning. https://www.wpri.com/business-news/hasbro-laying-off-nearly-600-employees-in-pawtucket-ahead-of-move-to-boston/
>>11928216didn’t they also fire a bunch of people who did move? Imagine uprooting your entire life only to be immediately let go kek
>>11928182>just got through raising prices AGAIN for the second time this year>while cutting corners and lowering costs by laying off established employees to replace them with cheaper new hires. >also named "Cocks."
>>11928182What a dick.
Kenner had a 50 year history in Ohio with many of it's employees having worked there for decades;many of the people working on Star Wars toys in the 90's had worked on the 70's toyline.Hasbro didn't give a fuck and closed the offices down, they "offered" Kenner employees space in Hasbro, RI knowing that a bunch of 50+ year old men would not uproot their whole lives They just wanted Star Wars and a few boy's toylines and for them to fix Transformers for them. Once they used them they then poached young talent and dumped all the old guys. This is just what they do. It'll happen again when they finally dump the last American employees who aren't execs.
>>11928221meanwhile korean and chinese toys keep getting cheaper and better. No wonder mutt companies keep closing, nothing of value lost
>>11928269Based Cardbot enjoyer.
Why is someone his age worried about uber eats?
>Hasbro is going to have an 8 foot Optimus Prime animatronic powered by Ai in their new Boston lobby while their customers take out high interest credit cards/lay away or [just plain hide til they can afford] to pay for figures that cost $1.25 to make.
>>11928279they probably mass order a bunch of food to the office.
>>11928279"Theres nowhere to eat and it takes 40 minutes for food to arrive... Walmart hates getting off the plane in Boston and driving..."
>>11928220They laid off some people, some of their best people. They fired the people that moved to Boss Fight when they gave their notice.
>>11928269>>11928275over designed slop
>>11928285>he thinks collectible action figure lines like Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black Series, and GI Joe Classifieds are more than a blip on Hasbro's income radar.The collector toy space doesn't attribute for much of Hasbro's and other company's profits. For Hasbro, their real money maker is MtG.
>>11928194Yes. You lose touch with reality, and most of them are already barely functional sociopaths.
>>11928331Right now the blip on Cocks radar is MONOPOLY GO because he's an idiot. He doesn't realize Monopoly Go is just a Gambling/Slot app reskinned and marketed to kids
>>11928358I kinda laughed during the interview when He mentioned playing D&D with his family. I tried to picture doing that with my wife and kids and quickly was like "yeah he lied."
>>11928317AHAHAHAGAY FROG OLD MAN TOYSAHAHAHAH IS THIS WHAT STAR WARS IS NOW AHAHAHHAHAHA
>>11928182This motherfucker looks like he's got a few too many chromosomes. His eyes are too close together.
>>11928360So is Magic. Card packs are just gacha, and any good cards are always chase rares.
>>11928366Monopoly Go is just Coinmaster reskinned/rethemedMagic (and Anything TOPPS now) is cashing in on the gambler addiction as well with their pack breaks bull.
>>11928182I've seen some bs in my time but holy fuck. Who's jewing who here at hasbro?
>>11928361That's right up there with that McDonald's exec eating the "product" on camera, kek.
>>11928390Aside from the only world superpower, I guess. What has Singapore made, Chungusfurry?
>>11928390yeah it's kinda trolling but it is funny that they're putting up a giant animatronic based off a toyline they licensed and re-marketed and didn't actually invent themselves.
>>11928182>>11928194>>11928216>>11928243This all sounds like a big deal until I read that current hasbro headquarters is in fucking Rhode Island. The way people were talking about this I thought it was in California or something. It's moving barely an hour away. Literally anyone could just fucking drive there from their current house, and for anyone wanting to move it would be a minimal move where they are still totally familiar with the area. This guy is a massive faggot and Hasbro can suck my ass but this is the biggest nothing burger ever. Why don't we focus on them absolutely fucking most of their toylines and customers and not some meaningless corporate headquarters move that will probably be closer to half the people that work there anyway.
>>11928537Don't worry anon OP is obsessed with cocks.
>>11928317The fuck are you comparing it to? It's literally more simplistic than modern Hasbro stuff. It just has better paint aps and plastic separation.
>>11928537An hour away is still an hour away. Not something most people would want to commute from 5 days a week(1 hour is going to be 2 in rush hour), still going to have to uproot spouses, kids, leave family, etc. It's a move easier for younger, single people. They're not planning on keeping every employee. It's a tactic to make sure people resign without having to pay out. They want to shake off a bunch of senior(i.e., better paid) employees. They do some tactic to oust people every few years. Hasbro probably doesn't want too many employees with over 15 years experience.
>>11928390Furry.
>>11928564literally so many people commute an hour for work. Any suburb of a major city with people working in the city have a 30-60 minute commute. Most people that *live IN a major city* have an hour commute. This is a fucking nothingburger. If living 10 minutes away from your job is so important then move- again, very easy since you're already familiar with the area- or get a different job(hard because they already live close to one of the only major toy companies in the US with a large workforce and corporate office). Nothing about this move is uprooting anyone who isn't willfully a lazy dumbass. Also the guy calls out keeping Walmart happy, ie the company responsible for like 50% of all their revenue. Piss them off and everyone is losing their jobs anyway. I have absolutely no sympathy for this move being "hard" on anyone at the company because it's literally the closest possible move they could make.
>>11928537I would just find work elsewhere If my current job wasn't 15 minutes away.
>>11928182Why does Hasbro even bother making toys anymore? The majority of Hasbro's revenue comes from their WOTC holdings. That shit could be run by like 15 people, 5 and some secretaries if they completely sell-out and design all the cards with AI.
Guess they should have delivered his food faster.
>>11928587Lmao I just googled how far the new office is from the old one. It's literally a forty five minute drive from one building to the next. You're absolutely right in that this is a nothing burger. No one is uprooting their lives and moving because their office is now less than an hour away from the old one. No one is going to quit their job over a forty five minute move. These articles are such clickbait and you fucking idiots fall for it like clockwork.
>>11928537So if your job told you to move to a different state you would be fine with it right? And you would make zero complaints? Because it’s just like forty five minutes away maybe even thirty minutes if you drive really fast
>>11928756If that office was only 45 minutes away from the current one, no I don't think I'd complain. What if it's closer to me? You're acting like a less than hour drive is a big deal.
>>11928756Are you some angry low tier hasbro boomer who was gifted everything their entire life and lives 5 minutes away from the current office or are you some 25 year old whiny bitch who has never even had a job? These feel like the only two options. Literally almost everyone commutes to work. This will likely be closer for many of the people who already work there. It's also actually in a city now so new people will be more likely to come work there, which if you see the current state of habsro you absolutely want new blood in there because of how fucking shit they've become.
>HASBRO IS UPROOTING THEY'RE ENTIRE EMPLOYEE BASE AND FORCING THEM TO SELL THEIR HOUSES AND UPROOT THEIR ENTIRE FAMILY>new office is 40 minutes awayThe Hasbro hate around here is so forced it's kind of outrageous.
>>11928182This isn't what he meant dummy
>>11928587>>11928738>literally so many people commute an hour for workanon I realize on Google maps it says about 45 minutes to an hour as a commute, in rush hour that time easily doubles. It's a 50 mile commute. My job is about 20 miles away and in peak traffic can take about 40-50 minutes or so getting there. And considering how many people Hasbro lets go of yearly it's a big question of the move even being worth it.
>>11928810It's 45 minutes away from it's current offices. Not necessarily from where the people actually live. Again, it's not fucking far and you guys are making a huge deal out of it. People don't live 5 minutes away from the Hasbro offices you dumbass. The new offices are probably closer to the half of the employees. This is bait, and you're a bait eater.
>>11928216it's 40 miles down the road.Only people who were on the opposite side and already making a bad commute are gonna be affected.
>>11928810anon, in real cities, commutes are much, much worse than yours.In Houston, LA, Chicago, or DFW, everyone knows people doing 45 mile+ commutes.
>>11928182Stop buying inflated price shit. They don't make anything in the US and China isn't cheap manufacturing anymore.
>>11928790shill or just a simp?
>>11928848I just like calling you guys retards for blowing things out of proportion.
>Unemployed loser defending forcing people working real 9-5 jobs to surrender an extra 2-3 hours of their day (unpaid) just to get to work because a ginger faggot said soI genuinely hate you cuck faggots. The French riot in the streets if their government raises the price of croissants and you sad gimps say 'Thank you, sir!" when Trump raises the price of gas by $1.50
>>11928863>The French riot in the streets if their government raises the price of croissantsAre we seriously pretending the rioters in France are A: French and B: actually care about anything beyond the chance to loot?
>>11928863the riots were just niggers chimping out
>>11928863It's so funny that leftists look at what's going on in Fr*nce and say "hell yeah!" And then you turn around and wonder why no one wants you literal retards with 10 disabilities in your bsky profiles anywhere near a seat of power.
>>11928863The riots in France are being done by the 3rd world migrants. Not actual French people.
>>11928863Cats.
>>11928863>The Frenchlol
>>11928991Just pointing out actual facts that you seem to be either ignorant of or trying to deliberately misrepresent. Not our fault that it hurts your feelings. Hasbro moving it's office forty minutes away from it's current building isn't the end of the world issue you little retards are making it out to be. So shut the fuck up.
>>11928997And they still want to give them reparations. Literal cucks.
>>11928997I thought the majority went to the boomers on social security and Medicare? Then the military takes a pretty big chunk after that.
>>11928991>>11929170>no counter argument>just invective and ragelolPlease tell us more about your pronouns, xisterTrump won btw
>>11928991>Are the niggers nuking the economy to build data centers that will never turn a profit or generate a single job?Fool! We will set the entire earth on fire if we have to for more Malfoid!
I was going to reply more to this but I see it's devolved quickly into revealing it's just been one tranny retard spamming back and forth with himself melting over the idea that some people from hasbro might have to drive an extra 20 minutes.You know I think it probably is an actual Hasbro employee after all.
>>11928991You are 50+ years old and using this board, look in the mirror.
>>11929210I suspect its somebody who’s been here for 10+ years, that’s all I’m saying.
>>11928182>>11928716Can't he just reheat it in a microwave?
I just get the feeling that Hasbro will eventually streamlines itself into irrelevancy in regarding to toysYes, they have their tentacles everywhere but none of them excels. Just think, how many toy lines can Hasbro in the year of 2026 can say are successful? Joe? MLP? Transformers (the one that is co own by Takara that they got pissed and started to do their own thing again?) Bakugan? Dungeon and dragon? Magic the gathering?
I can't believe people here are actually defending this move.
>>11929272I think the reasons are stupid but at the same time the move in itself is nothing people should take to the streets to either. Now, if they moved HQ to India or some other part of the world where it’ll be cheaper to operate…
>>11929255I'm sorry. I just can't pretend to be outraged over someone I don't even know having to drive an extra twenty minutes to work. I have my own problems to focus on.
>>11929272really not surprising considering the amount of corporate cock suckers on this site
>>11928771>It's also actually in a city now so new people will be more likely to come work there, which if you see the current state of habsro you absolutely want new blood in there because of how fucking shit they've become.lmao if you think that>A) they're actually going to hire in-office people>B) the new blood is good for Hasbro and not just fly-by-night kids who can't do proper researchLook at how all the newblood they hired for Power Rangers worked out. They were using fanart and cosplay images for references lmao
>>11928771>Literally almost everyone commutes to work. You seem very unaware of how many roles are fully remote now. When I check job postings its easy to find 100% remote positions. Certain lines of work must be physically present sure, but I definitely would not say "Literally almost everyone commutes to work" anymore. The majority, sure. But not literally almost everyone. At least some of Hasbro's positions could be fully remote. But really, the whole idea of moving their HQ is foolhardy and looks like it's just driven by upper management wanting to be in a posh area where they can get warm Uber Eats and a better restaurant scene. Absolutely brain dead reasons to move a business' HQ. They don't even need to look for new talent as they just laid a bunch of people off.
>>11929404You guys nitpick one little part of an argument and completely miss the point of what the argument was even trying to make. His point stills stands, The majority of people still commute to work regularly and those commutes are often times more than forty five minutes. Now pull your dick out of your ass you gaywad.
>>11929405Don't say something inaccurate if you don't want to be criticized for it.
>>11929404Also>posh areaIt literally isn't. What third world country are you from?
>>11929407>What third world country are you from?America of course. If you don't think Boston is posh, I assume you're excluding almost anywhere in America from being posh. Which is a fair perspective. We are a banana republic now. But from the perspective of an American, Boston is posh, and somewhere upper management would want to move to in order to get out of Rhode Island.
>>11929409No seriously, what South American country are you from? I can tell.
>>11928194We haven't had normal CEOs since they allowed for Stock Buybacks in the early 80s. They have all be legitimate retards since then
>>11928182The title for this article does not make sense I feel like I’m having a fucking stroke reading that shit
>>11929409>>What third world country are you from?>the only first-world country of courseI bet you thought that was real clever when you typed it up huh
>>11928394Lmao that wasn't an exec it was the CEO himself
>>11929404>Has a problem with driving 30 minutes to work 3 days a week>Says a lot of positions are 100% remote work that you can easily getOk then why do you care? If it's that easy to land a fully remote job then anyone who has a problem with 15 extra minutes of driving time can get a remote job, problem solved. This is your own logic at work btw.
>>11928537Yes goyim just accept 20 hours of unpaid labor driving to and from your job in insane traffic so your boss can work in a neighborhood with a kosher deli. If you don't that's antisemitic.
>>11929821It's so performative how you guys pretend to get upset over strangers you'll never meet having to drive an extra 20 minutes to work.
>>11929773>>11929773>Has a problem with driving 30 minutes to work 3 days a weekI didn't say anything of the sort.>Ok then why do you care? If it's that easy to land a fully remote job then anyone who has a problem with 15 extra minutes of driving time can get a remote job, problem solved.>This is your own logic at work btw.Stop assuming everyone who finds a fault with your post and thus responds to it is the same person. The reason the Hasbro workers wanted to stay at the company may have nothing to do with whether their job is in office or remote, but rather the existing relationships they built there, the type of work they get to do there, general stability, or any number of other reasons.
>>11929864Ok, no one was talking about any of those reasons though, we're talking about the office move.
>>11929873That's part of the problem with the office move. Those people are being forced to make a difficult decision choosing between any number of reasons for staying as opposed to a reason for leaving that was forced by upper management unnecessarily, which was based on restaurants and Uber Eats.
>>11929880No one is quitting their job over having to drive an extra twenty minutes to work.
>>11929726>He seriously thinks Nordics don't live better than we do in AmericaCome on, anon, I know they may not get much in the way of toys there (actually I have no idea but I assume since all the toy brands besides LEGO are HQed in America, China, or Japan distribution there is an afterthought), but they don't need stupid plastic heroes, since they have a healthy, somewhat well-functioning society where people actually talk to each other and trust their neighbors. They resist the call of spending time driving to depressing department stores to 'hunt' for toys and posing their hard earned hoard. I would consider the Nordics the last of the first world.
>>11929889we went from this being an hour and a half commute, to an hour, to 30, 20, soon you'll claim they already lived in Massachusetts anyway.
>>11929889If they already drive an hour to work they will.
>>11929910I looked it up two days ago and the new office is a forty minute drive from the old one. It may even be closer for some employees depending on where they live. This is such a nothingburger.
>>11929920Right, Boston has 10x the population of rhode island, it's very likely that a large portion of workers were already living in or right around Boston and commuting to RI to work there, not the other way around. Plus they said they're offering compensation to people who do live more than 40 miles away and want to continue working there, so you will literally get paid to drive to work if it's more than a 30 minute drive. The one or two people in this thread arguing that this is some kind of crazy move have to be among the dumbest fucking retards I've ever seen on this board and that is saying something.
>>11929990>The one or two people in this thread arguing that this is some kind of crazy move have to be among the dumbest fucking retards I've ever seen on this board and that is saying somethingI'm convinced they're third worlders that don't have actual jobs and just sit and shitpost on the internet all day.
>>11929992It's mostly one brown thread farming 4cucked virgin Boliviot in America (LA) on welfare with his mom.>No, you must reeeee>and totally agree>just like samefag sockpuppet Op>about this redditing outrage scree>or from xis hugbox you must flee>before xe mass reports you to the jannie>by hopping many ip>on several devices you see>then having a melty'>and posting cp>while masturbating with a steven universe plushie All documented, by the way. Projection and deflection got him Bonecrushing rejection.
>>11929992no, they're magic the gathering late comers who are mad that the collectable card market that had been developing got upended by Chris Cocks' particular actions before he became CEO.Basically, by 2015, cards had started becoming more valuable than before because of a number of factors (what's allowed to be used, how limited is the production, etc) and cocks came in and said "yeah, but we don't make any money on the aftermarket, and people want more of these cards, or cards like them, so we're gonna make more"and suddenly their "investments" dropped.and now they're super butthurt, and have been raging for YEARS about him.
I was on that area they’re going to for a business trip, I’m wondering if the city is clearing out the fentanyl zombies and bums sleeping in alleys for at least the first few weeks that are there. It was pretty trashy for as upscale as the buildings around there are supposed to be. The Lululemon store was closed as they were hit with a group ran in and ran out with half the store a few days before.
>>11930192>bonecrushingkek
>>11930234Lmao they certainly won't. This is why I don't understand why people are claiming this area is supposed to be "posh". It's filled with homeless. Also what's with the board being extra dead the past few days? Dozens of threads haven't had a post in like days. The board is averaging like a post an hour right now.
>>11930198Not into cards these days, but that’s based.
>>11928249>This is just what they do. It'll happen againanybody can sing a song.we don't need to pay Taylor Swift.just get rid of her and hire a much less expensive employee.it'll be the sameno way will quality drop in the songsit always makes me mad when the boss doesn't recognize the "valuable" employee. even someone like the pack-picker pulling the cart and filling boxes. you have those few people who CARE and rush to do a good job, packing way more boxes than the others, and they want a 50 cent raise? f__ that! just hire a new person! what do you mean production dropped? (the new person does exactly half the good person's work...)
>>11930395>Also what's with the board being extra dead the past few days?A chronic troll got a 3 day range ban and one chatbot got delisted. RIP chatbot.
>>11928182The only thing chris cox deserves to be feed is his own manlet cock on a silver platter
>>11930452Yeah, that's just the Walmart/whale-ship doom spiral of economics. Eventually, the system crashes due to the need to cut corners as much as possible; people lose jobs, and the small folk perish. Eventually, the same fucks who redlined the whole system get to rebuild at a new low price.
>>11930452fixed it for you (hopefully 4chan won't garble the image this time)
>>11932442You forgot about the shareholders and the VP class, little naive one.I know someone who was the #2 manager at a business site. That site had around 57 employees and made some ungodly amount in profit, like $12 million a year, enough for everyone there to make over $200,000 a year each. Guess what? Not one of them even made $200,000 a year. Where do you suppose all the profits go? Hmmm, I wonder...
>>11932495If they did it wouldn't be a profit, retard.
>>11932442Damn, If I made around 1/8th the market price for every machine I designed that my shop sells I'd be fucking retired years ago.
>>11932627Then you can take that >>11932442 image and throw it in the trash since it isn't true
>>11932495>argumentum ad anecdotumWhoa, actual femanon sighting!
>>11932952So you deny profit exists?
>>11932950Correct.
