Your contention is noted. Can we move on now, please?
'Everything Is a Story' Inside Wyrmwood Gaming's Narcissistic Funhouse
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Your contention is noted. Can we move on now, please?
Nor do I; that doesn't make it a non-issue.
In general, I don't hold my tongue just because I agree with someone. If I feel they could be doing something better, I say so. As mentioned earlier, with what she covered in this article, the revelations speak for themselves, and she should have let them.
Particularly because now that I think on it more, I think she actually did do this for the Bobby incident, in that it was relayed (assumingly verbatim) from the victim and left to speak for itself, but she did not take this approach with everything, and I don't think that was a good idea, for reasons Ive already been over.
But, as also said, none of this surprised me. You can still go watch videos of the CEO ranting about health insurance and safety regulations and all that.
It would've been a miracle if that was genuinely as innocuous as their media team wanted to portray it as.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
Most of the time, when I'm rolling physical dice, it's in public. When I'm at home, I'm usually using an app's built-in dice roller.
Even if I was using it at home, I still would feel bad using one of their products. That's why I got rid of my Zak S. and James Raggi penned books.
Citizen Mane
The bitters are excellent for your liver.
If you ended up buying one and don't mind saying, who did you end up buying a table from? My wife and I've talked about it on and off, but Wyrmwood is the only company we're aware of.
Echoing & amplifying that.
I’m interested in some of that kind of stuff, but realistically, not likely to buy any in the near future. But knowing of quality alternatives- and boosting their signal- would undoubtedly help me and other po customers find them.
The Myopic Sniper
Adventurer
If you have ever watched any of their cringey reality show inspired videos none of this should be much of a surprise. Linda's prose was less damning than the stuff that they put out their on their own, but Linda does a great job of connecting the dots and filling in the Paul Harvey rest of the story.
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Sacrosanct
Legend
Wow. I mean, even outside all the illegal business practices and skeevy behavior, as a woodworker myself, the stuff they do in that shop blows my mind from a hazard and safety perspective. It's a wonder someone hasn't been hurt badly.
Cordwainer Fish
Imp. Int. Scout Svc. (Dishon. Ret.)
Back in college one of the workshops in Engineering had a sign on the door: "If you think Osha is a small town in Wisconsin, you're in trouble."
pogre
Legend
I was in the market for a gaming table a couple of years ago and did some looking around and found wyrmwood and then their video series. It was their own published videos that made me decide against using them. People in the article call wyrmlife propaganda - man, it failed in my case. I cannot imagine anyone who has worked with wood or in manufacturing watching wyrmlife and thinking it is a well run company.
Sacrosanct
Legend
A few years ago I made a game table (lots of lessons learned there lol) for a friend. Maybe I should start selling them lol. (ignore the legs, they were just temp in this photo)
The article speaks to someone who was seriously injured by equipment they seemed to know was faulty.
Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
More particularly, the person was injured, and when they returned for light work .... they were laid off.
That's a lawsuit.
Yes... but they don't pay very well, and that person was off work for a time while incurring medical bills. Can they afford the suit?
Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
We will find out- per the article, the lawsuit is already filed. Because OF COURSE IT WAS.
You never terminate someone returning from injury. To me, that's yet another red flag of an incredibly poorly-run company.
Sacrosanct
Legend
I don't know about the particular state laws there, but here in Oregon we have BOLI which will handle those complaints for you. Most states have something similar.
Any by serious injury, I meant permanent, like losing fingers, or serious, like breaking a hip from tablesaw kickback--something you need a hospital for. Things like this (it's ballistic gel, not actual body parts so it's largely SFW)
BrokenTwin
Biological Disaster
Nearly fifty sources? I'd say they've done their homework proper.
Just finished reading that article. If even half of the facts represented in it are accurate... yeesh.
Just finished reading that article. If even half of the facts represented in it are accurate... yeesh.
Sacrosanct
Legend
And what's worse, is the guy decided to film himself making these comments about sexism, OSHA, HR, etc. Talk about making it easy for the judge.
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