• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    151·
    1 hour ago

    So they’re just announcing they have either incompetent product managers, executives who refuse to believe reality, or both.

    I hope their developers all find better roles.

    For record, as a developer, I have worked many a weekend in my career during crunch. I was never mandated to do so, and I always made up the time afterwards. Only once in my entire career was it 2 weekends in a row, and it’s because it was a big that was because of me.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
      32·
      1 hour ago

      Crunches are regular and common in game dev. The difference here is star citizen devs are well compensated and given time in lieu

      • fibojolyEnglish
        6·
        50 minutes ago

        Crunches are regular and common

        … and that’s not good and needs to change. You forgot to write the important part.

  • elgordino@fedia.io
    8·
    1 hour ago

    The email continues that UK employees “need to be mindful of the hours they work and are asked to have 11 hours outside of work in each 24-hour period.”

    This is an attempt to stay within working time regulations in the UK but they are violating this bit

    By law (The Working Time Regulations 1998), employees and workers have the right to the following rest: …. between working weeks – 24 hours every 7 working days or 48 hours every 14 working days

    By having a 19 day unbroken run which, as I understand it, is not legal.

  • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
    61·
    1 hour ago

    Don’t understand the negative response, all devs are being compensated for it and being given extra leave

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      7·
      1 hour ago

      it’s about consent. asking people to volunteer is fine, but mandating it isn’t. People have lives, kids, obligations, which might be worth more then two days of time in lieu.

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      12 minutes ago

      Oh? What gave it away? The unassailable fact that this “project” has sucked up millions upon millions of dollars and dragged on for years with fuck all to show for it, and now they’ve added violations of labor laws to their pre-event ramp up where they’ll, yet again, show “teasers” for a somehow still unfinished game with no release date, et al?

      Maybe something in there was a clue that this is a sham, and always has been? 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      2 hours ago

      Because the owners have grifted all of that away to private accounts already of course.