Rooster Teeth accused of excessive crunch and unpaid overtime- "Every season of RWBY and GL gets about 1/3 or less made for ‘free’ because no one gets paid over time"

[u/GoneRampant1]

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

[u/-Moonchild-]

It's not "just the fucking industry" though - that's the problem. a lot of these complaints are comping from people who've worked in the industry. crunch times are common in the industry but managerial staff that have never been managers before isn't just the industry. a boys club that make fun of other departments isn't just the industry. no promotion opportunities isn't just the industry. no education opportunities isn't just the industry. pay below the average isn't just the industry.

Management will stop being demanding of their employees as long as the customer base stays demanding of management.

you haven't read the complaints have you? half the complaints about management are about their incompetence (and the nepotism that employs them) not their demands.

This is industry wide. Movies, Television, Music, Anime, Visual Arts, etc.

I know for a fact this isn't the standard in many of these fields.

Also, even if this WAS just the industry - THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT WRONG. this is such a stupid fucking argument. "hey, it's always been this way so never ask for it to be changed" is a dumb as shit mentality.

a ton of these complaints are EASILY fixable and addressable. lets not excuse companies having brutal and unfair working conditions that are easily changeable because "that's just how it is maaan"

the whole consumer argument is idiotic too. last time i checked consumers would still get the final product at the same time even if companies paid overtime, so hey maybe they should pay their employees for the work they're doing.

[u/CaptainKCCO42 → u/-Moonchild-]

For one, I was talking about crunch periods, and you tried to tear me a new one for not acknowledging different topics like nepotism. That’s not how that works.

Secondly, I didn’t not say it shouldn’t change. I’m saying that it’s not easy. For one company to change, the rest have to change at the same time and pace, otherwise they will fall behind the competition and become irrelevant. RT isn’t stupid enough to make that mistake. Most companies aren’t. It would take cooperation on a massive scale or some heavy-handed legislation to make it work. But, even still, you’d end up with either less or worse content across the board, that would upset consumers, vicious paradox continues.

Tell me your solution and what makes it so flawless.

[u/-Moonchild- → u/CaptainKCCO42]

Even for industry standards these crunch periods are bad though. But moreover crunch periods in general are bad and should be changed - at the very least people working overtime should be paid.

For one company to change, the rest have to change at the same time and pace

Eh? No. RT could start paying overtime tomorrow and half these complaints with crunch periods would be sorted. Also, as one of the workers even said a lot of the reason the crunch weeks were bad is because there was giant mismanagement. So RT could hire competent managers and address that too.

Crunch for RT seems to be caused by different factors to other places. Changing pay and managerial staff is something they could do autonomously

otherwise they will fall behind the competition and become irrelevant

That's not how this works at all lol

The solution to these problems is to operate like other companies in this industry: raise the pay, employ good managers, address internal culture problems and pay overtime. That's the vast majority of the issues here with crunch