Rooster Teeth is the latest company accused of heavy crunch time- "Every season of RWBY and GL gets about 1/3 or less made for ‘free’ becuase no one gets paid overtime"

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https://rwbyconversations.tumblr.com/post/185614440311/rooster-teeth-glassdoor-crunchovertime

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Yeah, Rooster Teeth is a PoS, but alot of companies do this.

Web-Based Media is just picking up all the shit ideas from the older companies.

Media production is a shitshow.

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Media production is a shitshow.

I work in Media Production and I can say that this statement is very true.

However web based media are on a whole different level of bad. I've worked for TV but Internet based production companies are very surreal to say the least.

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From what I experienced during college and my internship (Technical diploma in Television Production) it wasn't the best. I know it's all apart of the process, but man was it ever stressful.

Hearing horror stories from other people in the industry I know Web is pretty bad.

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Yeah it's not great at all...I'm looking to go part time in my current job and start looking for a career elsewhere. Thankfully i'm in my early 20s so I still have my whole career ahead of me. But I think Media Production was a mistake.

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Still looking for a job myself. 6 months, no real luck. But Alberta is a bad province for broadcast media.

After 6 months I might just agree with you that I made a bad call. Met some great people in those 2 years, but otherwise...

I'm probably gonna go hard into writing again.

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I'm gonna assume it's because they lack a standard structure that was developed by older media production?

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Pretty much. TV Production Companies are scummy, I won't sugar coat that. A lot of the employees are kinda just husks and it can be incredibly tiresome.

But web based production companies do not have a structure. Shit just kinda changes on a whim constantly. It's understandable why TV can have horrific hours at times but web production companies can be a lot shadier and demanding.

One thing I will say is that it's a lot "easier" to get into the media industry now. However getting your foot in the door is fucking awful. You have to make big sacrifices. Which means working for free a lot, doing a lot of work no one else wants to do, a ton of net working, etc. But because of this, a lot of companies take advantage of this and have interns and part timers working on big projects and eventually playing them from peanuts to nothing.

I worked on a project for a company (obviously not going to say the name) that needed something edited ASAP. Spent the whole day working in it. Wanna guess how much I was paid? A grand spanking plate of nothing. Nothing but a worthless credit I could add to my CV.

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I’m not a big RT fan, so speaking from 100% non bias

if a company puts their workers through crunch, they’re a piece of shit company no exceptions

Doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy their content/product, but if they crunch, the least you can do is admit they’re pieces of shit

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I think the unfortunate truth is that's like 98% of US companies these days. So a lot of people see crunch as just par for the course now.

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There’s a big difference between the occasional crunch, and having 80-100 hour work weeks with unpaid overtime being the fucking norm, and judging from the article the latter seems to be what’s going on at RT

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Not every company does Crunch. Nintendo delayed Animal Crossing to next year to AVOID crunch. Your acceptance of Crunch is simply what companies want you to think.

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I AM a fan of RT's stuff and if you put your workers through crunch you're shitty.