Seriously guys all this stuff is just Bloomberg making any workers look spoilt try treating the developers with respect.
Majority of CDPR devs speaking out speak out against this gaslighting and try to explain the human rights policies present in Poland which isn't present in EA or ND.
Look at the stuff assumed about this, folks are saying this is 14 hour a day when by law it's 8. Devs when asked say it's 8, 48 hour week limit by law, 48÷6 is 8.
People say this won't be paid, everything is under contract, in a country with no lobbying and very strict laws.
People say these workers have no protection under law, Poland has multiple worker protection agencies which start and enforce laws under even a single anonymous complaint which'll then look into every aspect of the company and can arrest a CEO if contracted hours are breached or wages aren't paid, agencies with no black marks or failings to their name.
In addition to this same point Poland's workers rights laws are from EU directives which allows every single individual worker to petition the EU human rights courts in a system that had so many limits on how you treat your workers it drive the UK out of the EU.
People are saying this comes from an uproar of workers nor wanting to work their low hours in a low hour company, when most developers speaking up about how they feel intimidated into not being allowed to be proud their game went gold (is finished, this time is quality assurance), that they get threatened by death threats by the Shrier fans which you can all find, that they get emotionally blackmailed by Americans working 60 hour weeks whom refuse to look into the situation more deeply.
People say this is the same as the 100 hour weeks from EA crunch and other American industries when an extra 8 hour in a week for 6 weeks for a bonus equating to 50k which is 10 years wages in Poland.
You can fact check all this stuff, in fact I beg all of you too, this situation puts us back a couple of years already, but if this continues it will not only set us back to square one it'll create a large entrenched defenders if real crunch which'll recruit and stick to using 8 hours days to gaslight you unless we disown Shrier's malpractice.
Yes Shrier was right about Bioware, if a clock is stuck on 12 it'd be right at midnight and noon.
The truth of the matter is Shrier admitted publicly he didn't ask about hours, pay, the poll etc. All he did was base it on an email which'll prove temporary paid overtime but not this whole 14 hour day stuff.
By factchecking constantly primary sources I have done more research than Shrier has admitted to or this article which damages the anti-crunch campaign by only using secondary sources, the Twitter comments from someone admitted to not using more than that one email, but treats them as absolute fact and extrapolated bizarrely from it.
Look at what the general public has started saying about crunch due to this to be completely honest illegal defamation campaign of saying random unresearched, non-backed stuff in order to cause their games to be failures (and deprive workers 10% of sales).
We have oil workers in the US working 14 hours most days mocking us for acting as if we're all claiming that working a 10 to 6 in an office on a Saturday is some great stretch now assuming all crunch stories such as EA and ND are just workers being lazy because that's what you have insisted to them.
We have folks responding to say Nobina saying that a temporary 8 hours dominates your day, the responders are typically people struggling with often only 2 to 4 hours in the day to eat or spend time with their kids now assuming we're all claiming that having 8 hours to do life stuff and sleep 8 hours coinciding with how much of life school dominates for their children of 7 to 3, claiming these folks must not want to work at all.
The reached these conclusions because that is what say Nobina is insisting so I can't cast blame on the pro-crunch folks you guys are misleading.
Finally we have apologists for ND and EA whom you have now given massive ammunition to justify the absence of workers rights in the US. They are currently on an unchecked rampage by feeding into your unfounded claims both often simultaneously saying Polish companies do the same as driving workers to an early grave with 100 hour weeks, as well as saying that crunch is a myth and that it's the same as paid, contracted, limited overtime.
These folks use you to use defenders of Polish human rights to insist that there should be 'no double standard', 'every company relies on crunch, so are you going to live as a hermit' all based on your claims that 48 and 100 are the same number.
There is so much more damage done to the anti-crunch campaign I just figured I'd try to give you some idea of what you have done and the work ahead of us.
Each of those strawmen need to now be dealt with separately as a seperate branch of the campaign constantly referring to every source we can to break down the misconception which have been built by you.
This wasn't meant as an open letter originally but please just stop jumping through all these hoops and look at the primary sources.
Not the secondary sources of the tweets of someone whom has admitted to not caring enough to do research.
Is this 5 year long smear campaign against CDPR really worth the human cost?
The moment I'm presented with a single actual piece of evidence against CDPR I'll tell them to eff themselves.
After all look back I never once defended CDPR as untouchable or whatever, I simply described the context of every aspect of the situation, if the situation were to involve actual bad stuff on CDPR's side it would've included that.
And here is a promise, I swear that if any developer from CDPR is driven to an early grave like with the EA and ND which you've given so much power I will off myself.
In return I'd like you and this journalism-site-with-no-sources-other-than-twitter to look at the actual numbers, the pay, the hours, the human rights first world countries have etc.
Please help the people hurt by crunch by drowning Shrier.
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