I am being confronted with stark realities.
i must not afternoon nap. afternoon nap is the mind-killer. afternoon nap is the little death that brings total obliteration. i will face my afternoon sleepy tired and permit it to pass over and through me. and when it has gone i will turn the inner eye to see its path. where the afternoon sleepy tired has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain
I MUST NOT AFTERNOON NAP. AFTERNOON NAP IS THE MIND KILLER
Sega is unionizing
Tumblr refuses to show links, so I'll reblog with a link to their tweet, but Sega is unionizing and they need all the help they can get.
More context about this.
What Sega is doing is standard practice for the games industry. Other game and tech companies are doing this too. Nintendo, Microsoft, Google, Meta, the list goes on.
Many folks in the games industry work "contract" jobs via staffing firms, which means that they don't get the same full-time benefits as other employees in their company.
Most contract employees work on an hourly (not salary) basis. Sometimes they don't even get to take the same holidays off, or they might get less paid time off (if any, depends on the company). They are not allowed to be treated as full-time employees, and some companies treat them as second class citizens (read stories about Amazon, Meta and Google for example).
Contract employees also are usually unable to work more than 12 - 18 months on a project. This is due to a lawsuit against Microsoft years ago, who still heavily utilizes contract employees to this day. The lawsuit was brought against Microsoft because these contractors would work years on specific projects, but never be brought on as full-time
So instead of bringing these contractors on full-time, Microsoft instead restricted how many months they could work at their company at a time. For example, a contractor cannot work more than 12 - 18 months with Microsoft, and then they have to take a 6 month "break" (where they leave Microsoft), and then they can work another 12 - 18 months.
Contractors are also the first to go in most company layoffs, and the benefit (for the company) is that the company doesn't have to report contractor layoffs via the WARN Act.
This is just one example of how this industry treats employees. Salaried full-time folks are also overworked. And they don't get the benefit of overtime hours like hourly employees (most of time, depends on how you are classified as salaried).
Crunch is a huge issue, constant layoffs are a huge issue, burnout is a huge issue, etc.
These employees at Sega are very brave, as these large companies are not above union busting. I hope that they can set the stage for larger unionization efforts across the games industry as a whole.
hate how most of my problems are abstract or systematic i wanna fight more of them with a sword
It didn’t get talked about that much, but one of the things the railroad workers were demanding was that they reinstate an old rule that there have to be at least two engineers in the locomotive at all times, in case one falls asleep or has some kind of emergency. Because that’s often the cause of these type of crashes! Some railroad worker’s been awake for 22 hours, staring at nothing but landscape for the last four hours, he falls asleep and there’s no one around to wake him up.
Reblogs to tell your mutuals you love them but don't know how to interact
the ruling class will do whatever it can to snuff out what little power you have, and to render you inescapably and utterly enslaved
Case is Glacier Northwest v the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, more here
I post this every year but it’s worth it to remind myself to plant flowers, in the garden and in my mind and whenever I get a chance, in the hearts of others.
Here is a copy of the original from 2017, with the artist’s name! @geopsych
The source for that New Years cartoon I posted. Thank you, @godsbyanyothername !
had someone ask me like “why are you guys unionizing? just cuz?” and it threw me so bad i didnt even know how to answer
acts of service bitches when someone doesn't Need Something from them but wants them around anyways and they have to think about the fact that they could possibly be wanted for who they Are rather than what they can Do
everyone who rbed this you all deserve someone who will grab your little face and say to you "on purpose! i am going to care about you on purpose!"