Are we ready to have the conversation about games media folks working on their days off/vacations and the managers who let it happen bc the workers "wanted to!"

Bc that shit is toxic.

"So and so is off today but they really wanted to jump on this piece of content so we let them!"

It's not supportive or empowering to let people work on their days/time off. It just means you don't enforce boundaries.

Games media is built on exploiting the passion, work ethic, and desperation of the workers who line the pockets of companies that consistently tell them they're struggling too much to treat them any better/pay them properly.

And let me not even get into the fact that the only thing shielding staff from even more crunch are freelancers willing to die for a few hundred dollars.

Also being independent does not make me or anyone immune to these issues because now I am just the boss AND the worker. It's a hard industry with no easy solutions. My beef is some of you won't admit there is a problem at all.