‘Not mandatory’ is the same thing as ‘mandatory’ when missing every non-mandatory meeting, night, or weekend shift quickly results in punitive action, being passed over for promotions, or termination.

This is... not a great idea to build a business on.

You hear that, folks?

I seem to recall playing Nine Men’s Morris.

-All- of them are like that, more or less, save the very late-stage ones.

I can say ‘full stop’ about things, too.

Doesn’t matter.

I’m not misrepresenting the facts.

God have mercy on us all for having read this drivel.

‘We’ll introduce an opt-out, which says on-paper that you don’t want Riot to own you fucking whole. At this point, we can either choose not to hire you whatsoever, abuse you constantly by starving you for wage increases, forcing you to work a schedule which means you need to hire childcare without appeals, or just…

And here’s the deal: up until our current SCOTUS, it was fucking illegal (not to mention morally incomprehensible) to coerce someone to sign away their rights, which is precisely what this is.

People ask for shit they don’t understand is going to fuck them over all the time.

This is a nonsense argument.

I mean... mostly, yeah. :(

His bail

Bail is a hold, not a charge; you give them $35k and they only confiscate it if you don’t appear in court. It’s not a payment, it’s an assurance that you will return in lieu of jail.

This is predicated on an assertion that’s not really true, though; assuming that a game 4 years in production will now take 8 if unionization efforts succeed and significant advances are made in worker’s rights makes horse sense, but that’s a drastically simplified version of things, and does not take into account the…

I mean, it’s super easy:

Harassment, coupled with forced arbitration clauses which make it more difficult for individual employees to seek justice re: members of upper management who abuse them.

(And also have serious sexual harassment issues, which is why they have to take steps to reduce their employees’ ability to respond legally when harassed, abused, or fired, but yes, that’s Riot.)