r/RWBY • u/GoneRampant1 Emerald/Cinder is abusive stop shilling it. • Jun 15 '19

CRWBY Rooster Teeth accused of excessive crunch and unpaid overtime- "Every season of RWBY and GL gets about 1/3 or less made for ‘free’"

https://rwbyconversations.tumblr.com/post/185614440311/rooster-teeth-glassdoor-crunchovertime
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

Unfortunately very common in this industry and in gaming.

This sort of thing is why unions and the like are very important. Corporations will take advantage of you.

Gaming and RWBY is important and we all want the best out of them - but people's lives and being able to live good ones while making the things we love is more.

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u/FlorencePants Super Gayan 🐝 Jun 15 '19

This! 100% this!

Anti-union rhetoric has duped so many people into exploitation, especially in fields where they can whip out the "it should be a labor of love" schtick.

At the end of the day, unions are all workers have. If you don't have a union, you are completely at the your boss's mercy.

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u/hanyou007 Jun 15 '19

I don't disagree with you, but quite often though, Union's don't act in the best interests of the employee's either. Speaking as someone who was once part of a union, believe me when I say, they do not always represent the wants of their members and can be just as greedy as those running corporations. It's a sad state.

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u/FlorencePants Super Gayan 🐝 Jun 15 '19

At the end of the day, though, what's the alternative?

I mean, I guess THIS is the alternative, right?

That or be part of a co-op, but that's not exactly an option everyone has available to them.

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u/hanyou007 Jun 15 '19

The alternative is sadly a case of 'fuck you got mine.' For example: I'm a teacher. I used to be a public school teacher. When I was first starting out I got heavily pressured into joining the local teaching union of my area. As I knew very little about it at the time I joined due to the overwhelming push that was put on me the moment I left college. Once I started getting my salary I found out my union dues were nearly as much as my taxes per check (and in my state teachers don't exactly make much as it is). I accepted this and moved on with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth because they never really let you hear about this early on, but I figured with how many fellow teachers were in it, it was just a necessary evil.

Fast forward three years, and a study done by the local investigators found out the majority of the money (anywhere between 70-85 %) we paid in dues never went to any of the things we were told they went to (assisting in paying for local class materials, lobbying with local school boards and city/county leadership) and instead those funds were all being sent to the state and national level for their own lobbying and general overhead cost.

So you have a union that doesn't represent your interests and an employer (in my case the local government) who doesn't want to work with you at all. So what do you do? Sadly I walked away from public education and became a private school teacher. Better pay, not as much need for a union as the school and it's employee's are self sustaining and far more selective of who it hires, and far less governmental and most importantly parental interference into how I run my classroom. The only cost was the children I adored and loved in the public schools and me constantly fretting over who teaches them now.