EpicRandy on 26 October 2018
| John2290 said: How dare they ask people that they are paying to work, to do more work. These poor employees who have to sit warm, dry, fed for longer periods of times when a deadline draws near in an industry known for deadlines and crunch and not a 9 to 5. Rockstar need to lay these overworked people off, it's totally unfair that they have a time consuming and demanding job or give them all half their hours with half their pay and double the team size! That'll solve it. They shouldn't be allowed to choose to work, it's a social injustice and these people need to be laid off! I'll never understand why people thinks it's alright to butt into other people life and career choices. Now rockstar will be forced to cut peoples hours to avoid backlash in the future and people who need the over time will be shot outta luck. Also, never believe a 'previous' employee of anything, they may not be exactly truthful. Fire them all and make sure they have to break their backs with labour intensive jobs in the future with less hours and less pay! We can all agree that their lives are better when we choose their career paths for them? Right? How dare they choose their own way in life. |
Except that it's a common pratice in the video game industry not to pay employee for their overtime. They're paid 40hours/week even when they do 100+.
this link contains some devs that shared their experience with overtime https://www.quora.com/Do-video-game-developers-get-paid-for-overtime
There are tons more if you google it.
Now, I don't know if it's the case at Rockstar. but I know for a fact that a lot of well talented programmer choose not to work in the video game industry because of these conditions. And as a result many studio have given up on recruting talented employee and just hire whowever they can.
