Hopefully this gets Valve to buy out showings of the Rise of Skywalker.
PSA Epic rents out theaters for employees to see Endgame so we can stop talking about how they actually treat developers now
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Hopefully this gets Valve to buy out showings of the Rise of Skywalker.
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Epic is committed to the 88/12 split.
88 hours developing Fortnite and 12 hours watching Endgame in your 100 hour work week.
88 hours developing Fortnite and 12 hours watching Endgame in your 100 hour work week.
Smart move, by renting out the whole theater they won't have other movie goers complain about them working during the film. 
In all seriousness, this is nice but the timing is just too convenient.
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Yeah, it really does seem like it's timed exclusively to to distract from the crunch story.
I mean, we know Epic loves flooding the debate with misleading talking points. As is the case with topic of third-party exclusives, I don't see them being able to hand-wave away the problem unless they address the source, either by reduced work hours or better wages.
Smart, it's cheaper to rent a theater than adequately compensate every employee for overwork. Sweeney keeps showing off his galaxy brain.
better wages won't fix people essentially having to work 80-100h weeks ... not unless they can use that extra money to clone themselves
that's why upper management always gets pay rises - it's MUCH cheaper to pay few execs a few hundred thousand more per year than to raise everyone's salary ... and on top of that - those execs have the added "benefit" of keeping everyone else under them in check ... in case they want raises or something equally ridiculous like humane working conditions or unionization (gasp!)
First forced to crunch, now forced to watch marvel movies, i'm really sorry for the devs.
So Epic also does not have taste in movies, not surprising though 
Tastes burned away by all those hours spent in the office working on Fortnite.So Epic also does not have taste in movies, not surprising though
The irony here is that that is some Darkseid shit.
"Ahaha, just kidding, we'll go right back to the office after this and get right to work on that fortnite event."
Pfft, they go through that theater door and it's just a theater lined with desks in stadium seating. The movie plays in the background while they work. Tim watches and has a good time though. Probably browses twitter the whole movie.
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This is super common in the industry. and frankly its so over done I try not to attend.
Would rather go see movies with friends.
Within less than 3 months on my new team, we all went to see some movie, in the theatres that serve food and drinks.
only reason i went to that was the free drinks lol.
Would rather go see movies with friends.
Within less than 3 months on my new team, we all went to see some movie, in the theatres that serve food and drinks.
only reason i went to that was the free drinks lol.
yeah, stuff like that always seems so weird to me .... like company parties, or watching movies in a cinema etc.
why would i want to do that with people i (mostly) don't even know? that's the kind of stuff i want to do with my friends, not some randos (or, god forbid, my boss ... that's literally the last person i would want to be seen having fun around, lol
because you have morale budgets , and its use it or lose it.
movies are easy to plan, accepted by everyone for the most part, i mean you wont offend anyone, and theatres are close to most work places.
also easy to book for lots of people.
my buddies and i always joke these morale events are supposed to be for helping the team bond outside of just work
instead we all go sit in the dark (we work in the dark), and continue not communicating with each other lol
I guess that makes up for all the terrible things they did to their employees, and the Epic Games client and it's one year exclusivity shenanigans.
Who knew that dumb publicity stunts where the solution to everything.
Who knew that dumb publicity stunts where the solution to everything.
Thinking critically outside the office, but together, that's going to cause dissent among the ranks. Can't have that.
Joke's on them I can see the movie too and I don't have to work 100 hour weeks to do it. I'll also be awake enough to actually watch it when I'm in that dark room too.
Also, maybe I'm too cynical and bitter about stuff like this but I would rather have a day off than a 'group activity' forced on me.
Tbf it is probably not forced, but...I dunno man. My coworkers are not my friends, I don't want to 'engage' them on non-work topics.
Tbf it is probably not forced, but...I dunno man. My coworkers are not my friends, I don't want to 'engage' them on non-work topics.
So, uhm, I work in a 100% remote company and so it's not really the same, but we have several "bonding" situations over the year (team meetups, full company retreats, meetups at conferences, etc.), and I honestly enjoy them a lot.
I wouldn't mind going to the movies with my colleagues, even though, of course, I don't like all of them.
Even in previous experiences, I enjoyed spending time with my colleagues outside work, and in some cases with my bosses as well.
I mean, it all comes down to how much you like the people you work with, I wouldn't read too much into it.
I wouldn't mind going to the movies with my colleagues, even though, of course, I don't like all of them.
Even in previous experiences, I enjoyed spending time with my colleagues outside work, and in some cases with my bosses as well.
I mean, it all comes down to how much you like the people you work with, I wouldn't read too much into it.
Epic should have bought exclusivity for the whole movie for the first year, so you can only watch it if you're an employee. What a wasted opportunity.
I think most people are saying a lot of these comments in jest. I'm sure the rank and file at Epic get along well enough, and would even enjoy seeing the movie with coworkers.
But it does seem like a cynical move from an outside perspective given the public persona of their CEO and the recent articles discussing the disgusting crunch being forced on those employees and contractors by that CEO..
Yup, I've been to my fair share of after office/end of year parties, so this doesn't seem like a ridiculous thing (not counting all the countless hangouts and such with my work friends, I'm talking about company-organized stuff only). Of course, that was after a regular 8 hours day, so I probably wouldn't want to see anybody if I had been at the office with them for 12 hours straight.
So yeah, a cinema evening with coworkers sounds normal to me, even though it's not the best setting for socializing.