GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We already know the affected workers were using Discord to organise. My guess is they were discussing work issues there, and Rockstar jumped on that as an excuse to fire them (as it would constitute a breach of NDA).

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That was really clumsy on the side of the workers. Discord is the last App I would use to organize a union. What were they even thinking?

    On the other hand that probably means they use discord for literally everything including communication within Rockstar, albeit unofficially. So yeah if their employer had any consistency in firing people over NDAs they would probably have to fire most of the staff.

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Official internal chat will be either Slack or MS Teams. Using any other app to discuss matters relating to the business would be a contract violation.

      Realistically, game devs do this all the time in private chats with colleagues that happen outside work, both online and in person. But of course R* either never knows about those or chooses to overlook it.

      In this case, I suspect the fact they were unionising was the reason they actually took action on it. It’s not about consistency, it’s about having an excuse to fire these people.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve formed a union within the industry. The trick is a balance between meeting with workers and security for the OC. In my campaign, we used discord as well to be a space to connect with as many people as possible outside of work. We also used signal for the OC to discuss the actual organizing. NDAs are limited only to the direct work. You can legally talk about workplace issues though. IWGB (UK equivalent to CODE-CWA) aren’t amateurs, they very likely trained the OC on all of this.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Talking about issues surrounding work outside of the workplace is not an NDA violation.

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In this scenario I’m assuming they were talking about project specifics, which would absolutely be covered.

      I’m not sure about other industries, but NDAs and similar restrictive contract clauses in games are extremely strict and often quite broad.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lesson here is when you’re organizing, you have to be careful as fuck that you are not breaking any rules. They are tracking your every move.

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    • turdcollector69@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s more that until you’re ready to strike you have to remain invisible.

      It doesn’t matter if you do everything right, they’ll either lie or frame you.

      They can’t counter what they don’t know about.

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is exactly what happened. All corporations operate like this. They know what they are doing is illegal, so they just use words to warp reality however they like. It’s the Republican strategy.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  presses X to doubt

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• WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wasn’t gonna play it anyway cause I don’t have PlayStation, but now I’m not playing it with bells on.

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  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    cause I don’t have PlayStation

    Isn’t it also releasing on PC and Xbox?

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    • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Xbox yes, pc version comes later to boost console sales.

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• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sure bud, sure

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