naughty dog workers need union to their life
It seems so easy! Look how well it went for Rockstar employees
Why are we pretending people can just form a union right now? Video game developers are terrified of losing their jobs at the best times.
They’re working at Naughty Dog on this, after all.
It’s clearly not as easy as the pithy commenters continually imply.
Good job at having empathy, guys! You’ve all started unions, right?
We’ve tried nothing and we’re all our of ideas!
Gtfo, if you want to eliminate crunch, just don’t have them work more than 40 hours. It’s easy accept that youre gonna miss some deadlines, cause you fucked up the planning. Promise your workers triple pay during OT and suddenly the middle managers ain’t as motivated to try to force unofficial OT
In Germany they brought in a rule that overtime gets paid from the managers pay check.
I never see my German colleagues working late any more.
They did? I never heard of that? Where can I read more about it to show it to my manager?
Yaaay, one more reason to hate Naughty Dog! I cannot wait for the mediocre combat that comes out of this. Will be totally worth it, I bet.
Shitty work results from shitty work ethics? Say it ain’t so!
It’s not like the bosses have no experience, do they just suck at creating realistic deadlines? Everything I hear about the industry is people overworked af
I suggest you look into the history of naughty dog.
Like this?
It’s 100% cultural, a combination of generational trauma (“I did it so you have to”) and pressure from upper management leading to performative effort. We now know from productivity research that overtime periods in game dev get diminishing–and even negative–returns pretty quickly.
“Well you see Geoff, mon neey”
The choice is to extend the deadline and work as normal or crack the whip in a vain hope you reach the deadline. Don’t lie like a fucking cunt and say you had no choice.
