Days per week (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Monday, August 07, 2017, 23:50 (2904 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I have a question for anyone who would know.

You say 80-100 hour weeks. Does this mean people are in 7 days a week? Or is the 80 hours over 5 days (16 hour days)?

You know what discourages crunch in my industry? The Union contract. A sixth day is 2x. A seventh is 3x. Anything more than 5 consecutive is 2x. More than 6 is 3x. Anything over 8 per day is 1.5x. Over 12 is 2x. Over 14 is 2.5. Anything over 40 per week is 1.5x. Over 60 is 2x.

An acquaintance made 20 grand in three days because Michael Bay worked him for 72 hours straight. And even then he said he'd never do that again.

Not saying there is never crunch, but it's not really perpetual. Unless you are on a comic book movie.

Most developers are salaried with no overtime potential. That's part of why the system gets abused. Standard contracts are rare, but developers don't have a ton of power.