Instead of “The Great Resignation” I prefer “The Fed Uprising”.

I don’t give two shits about the “takes” in the replies to this, but reminder, VOTE folks, and clearly don’t vote for any of these nut jobs. I don’t care if you’re not too hot for Biden, staying at home like many did in 2016 is not an option if you’re eligible to vote.

You have three choices, sink to the bottom and…

"Crunch" if instituted by management, is a failure of management to set expectations to the publisher, or getting bullied by marketing to deliver something not originally spec'd out. It's of course not always that simple but when management comes in and states we all have to take one for the team, I start laughing,…

Isn't that essentially just a well-organized union though?

I don't like how you decided to pretend ignorance.

This is one of the reasons I've often advocated for a programmer's guild like the actor's guild, whereby those who don't play along get shunned completely.

This is why I don't want to work in the game industry, no one has actually read anything about the history of unions or how much they improved things until the great Outsourcing of the 80's. Income increased to employees multiple times over, safety measures massively increased.

Btw, in my experiente in software development, if you finish your job in less then 40 hours, you wont go home earlier, they will give more work!

If it were the price of specialized work and necessary, yes.

I will absolutely not chill. It might not be the same everywhere, some places might have figured out how to treat their workers better, but there are still people working insane hours for terrible remuneration. Fuck, there are people working 27 hour days regularly. 27! the day only has 24!

Haven't you heard, they are evil and destroying our economy. Seriously all Target employees have to watch this.

You know, when I first started I was like "woohoo free dinner!" And then I actually thought about it. If you're salary, you do not get paid for crunch. A $15-20 dinner is not worth even an hour of a low paid developers time.

Definitely not exclusive to the games industry, but generally you get compensated for OT in other fields. You don't in games.

And workers that are willing to be "exploited".

You know who else isn't part of a Union? Every worker in China. It's great that you can make a decent wage and get to work reasonable hours without the need of a Union. But unfortunately, there are many employers who love to exploit their workers.

Too many egos in game development for that. If you were an all-star developer, would you want a bunch of lazy developers dragging you down?

People are not doing that, they are critiquing the fact that crunch was glorified by the game's publisher.

This article flew a little too high over your head.

Whatever happened to unions?