Mandatory overtime? The games industry is slavery, unionize NOW for fuck's sake.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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Any developer job right now is becoming slavery and all coders should unionize
paid overtime?
"I'm sorry, the working time directive does not allow me to work more than a 40 hour week"
In the UK I've been told its "standard procedure" to opt out of the Working Time Regulations "just in case".
I've had to back out of a job because of it was a requirement to sign even though the job was for 40h/week.
I can condone zionism, but I draw the line at crunch
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The /s tone indicator is doing a lot of heavy lifting in my comment
Do they paid for overtime hours, including double pay for work after certain hours?
Not if they're salaried (payed a set amount per year) which most devs are. At least that's how it is in the US if you don't have a union contract.
OK, thanks for the explanation. They definitely need to unionize then.
For completeness sake, and because workers should know their rights, I just want to add that many salaried employees do actually qualify for overtime. It's possible that these devs don't, but be sure to look into it and know your rights if you are a salaried employee and being forced to do overtime. Wage theft is the most common form of theft, so make sure to protect yourself.
Crunch bad.
But can we talk about the title for that game for a moment? "Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet" damn that's cringy as hell.
I don't know why this article is written as if crunch culture ever stopped being a reality. It has been like this for decades, and it shows no signs of stopping, despite all the criticism (and the only way of stopping it is unionizing, as many here have already said).