A Message from a Rockstargames Employee - GTA VI

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AAA devs are obnoxious activists that ruin their source material because they suck at writing, but AAA studios are the scum of the earth and need to suffer. There is no good guy here.
 
HC4CWH said:
Last week, my colleagues who were in the studio were each individually messaged by HR for a short friendly meeting, under the friendly guise of "Hey, are you free for a quick chat?"
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Has anyone ever tried just saying "no" to an unsolicited offer of a friendly chat with HR to avoid getting fired? I think it would work.
 
These niggas fired Lezlie Benzies (and settled a 150 million dollar lawsuit with pocket change).

I don't wanna acuse them of being jeets just yet, since the spanish, italian and polish artists are known to work in British studios and need work visas to do so (Thanks Brexit!).

But these idiots vastly overestimated their value to R*.
 
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Gobermental Supervisor said:
Creating a game is not a long term project like for example creating a steel mill is. From start to finish games can take from anywhere 2 to 10 years, and legacy support barely needs anyone working on it afterwards. What the unions are trying is to enforce an employment structure that is completely unfit for the business and unrealistic in every way, combined with employee rights that have nothing to do with job security and are all about political agendas.
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People say stuff like this and then wonder why every white collar career in existence gets eroded by third-world H-1B hires. If nothing is done to protect something being attacked then it will die. Don't feed me some bullshit about how real white men prefer to work in coal mines or factories, ask the kulaks how that mindset works out.
 
Maybe you shouldn't have used Discord for your meetings or at very least been more careful on who you let in and what you said. Maybe unions dont work for jobs like making video games. Maybe you should have gone to lawyer. Maybe leaking this to this website in order to gain sympathy and or awareness wasn't a good idea. By the way this is coming from someone that doesn't hate video games companies or unions as much as everyone else here. Your better off just finding a better job than fighting this.
 
MrTroll said:
Has anyone ever tried just saying "no" to an unsolicited offer of a friendly chat with HR to avoid getting fired? I think it would work.
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Annecdotally, yes. Sort of.

to tl;dr:
Background: a friend worked at a start up that got bought out. Everyone knew what was coming eventually because they knew they were bought for one or two aspects of their business + patents, not to continue pushing thier product. (but everyone not utterly retarded had their stock options go to the fucking moon so most converstations post-buy out were what they were going to do with their fat sack of cash once they were fired.)

So one day my friend hears a bunch of people's outlooks going off with "New meeting invite has arrived" notifications, and figures its the day everyone is getting fucked and doesn't feel a need to get fucked in person, so just shuts down their shit, grabs their box of personal items they want to save (as well as whatever tech items they intended to keep as "bonus severance") and heads home; no need to stick around and fight traffic, becasue what are they going to do, fire him?

Anyway, about 10 minutes after the meeting time his phone rings, its HR asking if he was attending the meeting, he said he was out of the office today. They said thank you and ended the call. He came back in the next day to see if his badge would still work, it did. His account wasn't locked out. he sees the meeting he skipped was canceled and removed from his calendar.

After some whispering, he got the skinny. Corpo HR had been told to fire a certain number of people from the Startup. They had a list, and just worked down the list until they hit that number and then stopped having meetings and canceled any remaining meetings. He worked there for just shy of another year until they fired him and all the other employees who were still there.

I also knew a guy where there was another mass firing even, he was legit out sick that day. It took HR until the next month before they realized he (and a few others) had been missed.


So in conclusion, it sometimes DOES work, just usually not for very long.
 
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Gobermental Supervisor said:
Maybe because game creation and white collar jobs are not the same thing.
One is project work, the other is not.

Don't compare apples with pears.
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What the fuck are you talking about? Do you think Grand Theft Auto is produced in an open field by manual laborers? Even if it involves contractors it qualifies as white collar work, this is what the H-1B plague is trying to take from you.
 
clickbait said:
Over 250 more to go.
Asking for a soft working environment in like a small indie studio is one thing and demanding it in a cutthroat industry studio is another.

Unions in creative environments cause nothing but delays. You got hired at one of THE studios and you couldn't handle it and wanted to start a union so that your job would be secure and you don't have to work harder or experience crunch time.

Productivity, efficiency, and accuracy is what makes your job secure and without knowing basic human decency and English jeets can and will replace you for a fraction. And they will be replaced for faster and cheaper jeets.

Get better instead of starting unions when burnout begins to creep in. You were in it for the passion, but now it's too much?
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Exactly what you said.
Unions traditionally were formed not just to protect a workers "rights" to things like fair pay & reasonable hours, but more importantly to ensure companies prioritized worker safety over profit.
Essentially they were made so that niggas wouldn't be maimed or die from insufficient safety protocols, like getting ran over by some dude working his 5th 16 hour shift that week, or someone losing their hands because a machine wasn't properly maintenanced.

These niggas are making fucking video games.
It sucks if there are unrealistic expectations, but the reality is starting a union isn't going to fix that.
That's my problem with retarded commies and shit libs. The idea that unions can just fix anything and that every job should have a union.
It basically boils down to "I don't want to work within the capitalist framework, I want my well being guaranteed regardless of outcomes".

It's always annoying to see it in the tech sector too because low level retards will just say it at the most insane times.
I specifically remember seeing on reddit a few years ago on a thread talking about regional pay for IT jobs or something like that? People were talking about how some IT jobs pay utter shit and there's nothing you can really do about it, and some retarded said something like "Yea here we only make $20/hr in tech support and the working conditions are terrible... When are people going to finally wake up and unionize?".
Just the most batshit retarded thing I'd seen that made literally no sense in any context.
Thankfully even the soy faggots on Reddit weren't siding with him on that, and were calling him out for how retarded he sounded.
 
Sean_Igger said:
I read this and my only reaction is "Let the games industry burn!"
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Seriously. Rockstar went out of its way to prevent people from killing Indians in RDR2 and there have been more than enough leaks to suggest the next GTA will be wokified. This nonsense couldn't happen to a more deserving company of fuckwads.
 
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