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IIRC it's because the AC doesn't work too well in the summer, so they don't run it as it's too hot. Or something like that?

The number of submissions has increased over time so I wonder what the breakdown of first-time submissions looks like

You gonna hire them?

Well, you see, one boycott is politically inconvenient to acknowledge, whereas the other one...

This is ex-Jungle Cruise skipper Cap'n Josh!

I'm sorry, you're leaving out the line right above that one lmao

Jesus Christ, I'm so sorry. That is MISERABLE pay. I heard they forced devs to work customer service (registers etc.) at Blizzcon too? At least that was one of the stories I heard

I've heard that bamboo can grow up to 6 stories tall. I personally think one of them might be 7 stories tall, but that's another storey

There's a story of a girl who literally died in her car. Just didn't show up to work one day. Instead of checking on her, calling friends/family/etc. to figure out where she was, they just fired her for a no call/no show. She wasn't found for months. It is sad that corpos value money over human life

Yeah, at Disneyland people were living in their cars. Disney being a multi-billion dollar corporation, the Disney Parks being the most profitable. I later worked with a finance guy who was formerly at Disney, and he said Disney's cost-per-dollar at the parks was crazy low compared to e.g. animation

I am very aware. We were very poor. We lived on credit cards and skipped meals. I'm a little sad I got put on blast by an account 5x my size because I was asking a question since I'm sympathetic to the situation, since I was in a similar situation myself in the same area! Nobody should live that way

She worked part time (10ish hours/week, whereas I was FT). But I assumed that folks at Blizzard were making more than $15/hour; when I joined EA as an intern I was making $25/hour. I've heard horror stories about Blizzard but if it is THAT BAD then that's even more horrifying than I thought

I'm sorry. Would you like me to delete it? I will if that's what you want. I swear I was just trying to ask a question since I was in a similar situation

I absolutely do! I joined EA in 2019 for a studio that got shut down, I moved to Respawn and got my game cancelled - twice - and now I'm on Apex, which also has a miserable RTO policy. I'm sorry it came off poorly but I swear up and down I am sympathetic and it was an honest question

I was living with my fiance, and we were poor! I am in the industry myself, I am not defending it! I'm sad to see this is taken not at all how I intended it

I'm in the industry too, I get it

That's not at all what I meant! I totally feel for you, I agree you were underpaid; I was just wondering if there were reasons why it had to be that apartment and there were! Sorry

Although I guess $1800/month is more expensive if that $3000/month was split across a roommate (since it was a 2 bed). Still, OC rent prices are wild and that was one of the major things the unions at Disney pushed for. Happy to see the Blizz unions talking about it

Not to defend it in any way, but when I was working at Disneyland ($15/hr) I lived across from South Coast Plaza (Santa Ana/Costa Mesa) and was paying $1800/month for a 1 bedroom. Would've been like a 20-30 minute drive to Blizzard; was there a reason why you couldn't go out farther? No car, etc.?