So there were cliques, employees getting underpaid and yelled at, a lot of overtime, and people being made fun of? Sounds like literally every job I’ve ever had, lol. Doesn’t mean it’s “right” but this isn’t something that is exclusive to NRS.
Nor is it exclusive to just the entertainment industry.
Yeah I worked 300+ hours a month for about 9 months straight a couple of years ago at my job. It was awesome getting all that overtime.
Maybe people ought to be making some noise about how farmers are treated too. Because neither is right...
Again farmers provide a basic need, do you want farmers to get together and start arguing to sell food at the highest possible profit. I don’t think you’d like that.
I dunno, I think generally speaking people hate Monsanto. Organic local farm raised foods keep gaining popularity. I wouldn’t go so far to say the farmers plight is smaller than the crunch industry. Farmers markets are very popular where I live, despite the higher cost.
What's your point exactly? That this isnt exclusive to NRS? So what? I think most people use what's going on at NRS, Riot, Bioware, etc. to push for and industry wide change.
They’re lucky that NRS is such a big brand and company. Where something about how everyone is treated could have repercussions. Not everyone is that lucky. Most people just have to put up with it with nothing ever coming close to changing no how many people complain. But since it’s NRS it’s a “sexy” story and suddenly people give a shit about the working class.
Don't they do that now? I mean, at least here in the U.S., where capitalism is everything, farmers operate commercial farms as a business and seek to make the most profit they can from their yields. Because...ya know...that's the name of the game.
They kind of do but their are over arching regulations because they provide a service again that is a basic need. It gets complicated but the basics is that there is a hard cap on what they can charge.
Plenty of people advocate for farmers, agricultural scientists, and all walks of the food production industry. They have unions and government associations and corporate backing the same as every other industry. This guy is just soapboxing.
Then don’t take a job with pay that isn’t adequate to your living situation.
Ah right of course how silly. I should take the 20 million a year CEO position rather than the "Grind my life away for nothing" one.
Just pray you get a job where your supervisor doesn't rim you for your depression in the workplace because you have no health benefits and are forced to work 100 hour weeks for months at minimum wage with a Master's degree 4head
That sounds awful. Is this your situation? If so, are you hourly or salary? Working 100 hours a week with a salary wage would be a big nope from me unless there was a big bonus at the end of the road or something.
This implies that the employees have zero power. That isn't true at all.
Unfortunately this is becoming more and more the reality for many undergrad and post graduate students. Primarily because they come out of school assuming that the piece of paper they earned automatically entitles them to a high paying job in the field they studied at school.
Actually it implies that "employee" singular, has limited power. Which is very true. However, you are correct that when employees can band together and form a union to collectively bargain they normally have much more leverage.
Multiple posts have talked about why there's a large supply of cheap labor available for NRS. I don't see anyone saying, "fuck NRS employees, they shouldn't get paid more". I think some people here have enough experience to know that there's a certain amount of "that's life" here. I worked at a printing company in Philly for 10$ an hour, they hired temp agencies to do work that probably never would get done other wise. Not all of those temps were US citizens, some couldn't even speak english. The company would pay the temp agency and the temp agency would apparently pay those workers less the minimum wage.