The standard estimate is that it costs an employer $10,000 per month per employee.  Why pay that if you can just make the employees you have work longer for free?

Sounds like game development is going the way of waiting tables.  Employer pays you shit wages, puts cultural pressure on customers to make up missing wages.

Yeah, when I was creating time estimates as a project manager for some small indie games, I generally counted on 6 hours of work a day. You have to include time for people to collaborate, meet, write emails, research, etc. The actual act of getting a thing done may require 30 minutes, but it might have taken 4 hours…

People have always died in automobile accidents. I drive many hours a day without seatbelts, and I think it’s no big deal if we remove all seatbelts. If you don’t want to get somewhere fast, then walk!

It’s crazy. I know just through high school there was maybe one unilingual person I knew, and this was in Canada, not Europe. Most everyone spoke a familial language in addition to English and French, so even if you were an anglo, chances are you had at least a passable understanding of French. Most of my friends…

So who are you that you feel entitled to listen in to other people’s conversations? It’s a big goddamn world out there. Wish people like you weren’t so proud of your ignorance, and threatened by anyone who didn’t dumb themselves down to cater to you.

Shouldn’t be that way though. I work in non-game software dev. I’ve been here for over five years. I have 5 weeks vacation, and work a predicable 40 hours a week. There have been weeks where I’ve worked holidays, or worked 12 hour shifts, but they are very much the exception. About the only downside is that even with…

Because a lot of place don’t pay them. They get salary and maybe a week off at the end. The old ‘day off in lieu’ compensation. I remember a friend of mine happy that he got a week off after 6 weeks of crunch. I told him to do the math on what he would have earned if they had paid him for his time. Forty hours…

Nah, in recent times how well has it gone for employees who don’t toe the company line in other places? The wonder is that any employee will still speak to customers. Were I working 100 hours a week I would never say anything under my real name, no way. You’d be shown the door immediately.

I worked 4 months where I left for work at 5:30am, and got home at midnight 6 days a week. On Sunday I would go in at 8am and stay until 8pm. Four months without a day off, and only 5 hours off between shifts 5 days a week. I was fucking focused because I was running a manufacturing division and was working pretty…

Oh man, I wasted many an hour on Jumpman or Suspended on the C64.

I think in some ways, it’s similar to why many people like Nightwing, though the characters in their stories seem quite different. Both lost their parents, though Dick ended up the child of a billionaire, while Peter had more humble origins. Nightwing is a regular human, Spidey is a mutant. Etc.

“OMG, woman attacked by creepy paparazzi following her into basement, screaming profanities, paparazzi are terrible”

And if you’re going to claim a lock, then for the love of god, do it right.  We lost a room because our lock claimer input the word lock wrong three times, stranding us at a clue we got correct.

I had a coworker whose girlfriend was, ah, very enthusiastic. He constantly came in to work with hickeys from his shoulder to his ear. It actually prompted HR to have a talk with him about maybe covering them up for the sake of professionalism, and so that people would stop voicing their concerns about him maybe being…

I like the way someone put it in a Day9 stream. I’m old to MtG. I played back when the card borders were still black from around 93-95. I get the idea, I even get the lingo. But man, this game does not ease you into it at all if you are unfamiliar with new mechanics.

I have to say, that compared to Sim3 (more accurately, the modding potential of Sims 3), the world of Sims 4 seems pretty sterile. Unless you go to a bar, you almost never really encounter anyone. I have created about 70 sims in a bunch of families in my game and I never, ever see them? Why? Because the game only…

The last time I moved, I got an itemized bill from the mover.

You know you’re in for a bad time if the first thing they say is “You have such lovely curls, can I straighten them?”

That fucking flying wedge is the reason I stopped going to the hairdresser and just hack my spiral curls into a shag myself. Every single one of them cuts hair like I have straight hair and I end up looking like that, haha.