I’m sure the department of labor will get right on this case…
I know you’re being sarcastic, but if does point out the fact that capitalism is only held in check by government. RockStar obviously waited until they knew they could get away with it given the current attitudes in all branches of the US government.
“The Grand Theft Auto maker terminated between 30 and 40 staffers across multiple offices in the UK and Canada”
lol, this is what I deserve for not reading the damn article
Did the USA invade the UK last night and I didn’t notice?
Now, to be fair I got an early night, it was Halloween and the nutters were out in force so I popped the ol’ sleeping plugs in and nodded off, but I think I’d notice when I got up for brekkie and the yanks were marching down the road xD
Pfft…Like y’all don’t know what to do with GTA VI.
Rockstar have been pieces of shit for decades. Didn’t change anything then, and unfortunately, it probably won’t now.
light my beard on fire?
Play it so much that you don’t notice your crew set your beard on fire and left without you?
look up the life and times of Edward Teach.
Roll it up with gunpowder, stick it in my ears, and light it on fire?
Don’t play it?
Pirate it? Yeah, I’ll probably do that.
What a joke. Fuck rockstar.
$49B company, all driven by labor.
just more evidence that you should only support smaller private companies, not corpos
Never talk about unionizing on company time, on company property, or with someone else that is, and especially with someone unvetted.
Keep it private, keep it quiet.
Previously decided never to buy a Rockstar game again (after an unplayable PC port on GTA 4) this just crystallizes that decision
Boycott all of the billionaire owned mother fuckers. Bleed them out of their bunkers.
It was like 5 years ago but I heard a family friend working there was making 27k as a mid level dev.
At a certain point the blame lies with the worker, I am pro union but jesus have some self respect and look for better.
Game dev is predatory because people can and will do it for free. Many “dream jobs” have this issue.
union organising
discordpass, shit news though, unsurprising
I know Discord has it’s flaws, but why would that discredit them from organising a union? Would you referred if they had used Teams or an email chain?
It’s interesting how Discord absolutely nukes its own trust by pretending to be more than it is. I loathe discord, to the point I’d use a competitor (not teams) just to evade it. I’m sick of finding a hobby group using it as a Frankenstein forum / chat / info hub when it’s only built for chat.
Discord is fine for this use, but I’m getting used to the distrusting it so often that it blends into reasonable use.
It’s freaking everyone. Every niche is Discord now. It’s so annoying.
…That being said, this is likely a private chat group. That’s ostensibly what its for.
They probably should’ve used something anonymized with non-persistant chat, but still.
Hard to organize when you can’t look at history.
Not to mention, discord can easily be anonymous, and you can easily kill off viewing history.
True.
Makes me wonder how they got caught? Discord basically not anonymos by default, so maybe no-one anonymized and someone in the channel reported it all to managment?
I wouldn’t doubt they required some sort of “prove you’re in the company” or something, or were shooting the shit publicly in a way that would allow for easy identification.
It sounds like they weren’t being particularly secretive about anything. I think this was not an expected move
