D&D General WotC is hiring for the Dungeons & Dragons team

[ECMO3]

I'm pretty sure the execs at Hasbro do it for money, and they're not more important than the people who work for them. Everyone deserves to be compensated for the work they do. If you want high-quality products, monetary incentives induce people to make better stuff.

Regardless, people ought to know how much they're going to be paid when they apply for a job.

And I am pretty sure the execs at hasbro would be a lot happier if they were game designers making far less money. There is a reason they are paid more and it isn't because they are more important, it is because others either will not or can not do their job.

My bet is they will get a bunch of applicants, for this, even though they have no salary listed. They will find someone qualified they can pay a low living wage to and if he or she turns it down they will move to the next person. It is not like there are not thousands of qualified applicants that will put in for a position like this.

 

[RangerWickett]

I mean, there aren't thousands of qualified applicants. You might have dozens of people who have the requisite experience.

And if you consider how unhappy people are when they can't afford their bills, and the cost of living in Seattle, I dunno, I bet the execs who can take fancy vacations and, y'know, have their own houses will be happier than the struggling game designers.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm pretty sure the execs at Hasbro do it for money, and they're not more important than the people who work for them.

They do the boring jobs.

Everyone deserves to be compensated for the work they do.

And people are compensated, buy doing something they enjoy. Wealth is not the only form of compensation. If it was the number of teachers on Earth would be zero.

If you want high-quality products, monetary incentives induce people to make better stuff.

Enjoying wat you do encourages people to make better stuff. Money encourages people to clock on at nine, put their feat on the desk for the day and clock of at five, collecting pay packet.

Regardless, people ought to know how much they're going to be paid when they apply for a job.

If you want to do it for the money you are not the right person for the job, so there is no point.

 

[humble minion]

Enjoying wat you do encourages people to make better stuff. Money encourages people to clock on at nine, put their feat on the desk for the day and clock of at five, collecting pay packet.

Being paid inadequately for your actual full-time job makes it real hard to enjoy what you do. Money means that people can concentrate on putting their best work out there, without stress over finances affecting their mental state, or without having to constantly wonder whether they should quit the industry and work in something less enjoyable but more renumerative so they can afford to make rent and put food on the table.

Seriously, it's pretty mindboggling to see people still peddling the 'starving artist' line, in 2021.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Being paid inadequately for your actual full-time job makes it real hard to enjoy what you do.

I'm a teacher. I've never been paid adequately, nor has any other teacher, ever. It not a full time job. It two or three full time jobs.

 

[humble minion]

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[Paul Farquhar]

Being paid inadequately for your actual full-time job makes it real hard to enjoy what you do.

Yet we still do it.

 

[RangerWickett]

Yet we still do it.

Well s&&& man, maybe if more teachers demanded higher pay, y'all'd be better off and not so stressed out.

Like, um, we have the money in this society. Until we have teachers earning a starting salary of 70k working only 40 hours a week, and we have class sizes no higher than 15, we're not adequately funding education, and we're misinvesting in our future.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Well s&&& man, maybe if more teachers demanded higher pay, y'all'd be better off and not so stressed out.

No, we would have a majority of children without any education.

Like, um, we have the money in this society. Until we have teachers earning a starting salary of 70k working only 40 hours a week, and we have class sizes no higher than 15, we're not adequately funding education, and we're misinvesting in our future.

Tax payers decide, and they decide that would rather pay less tax than have educated kids. It's the same the world over, so unless you humans stop being human it aint going to change.

 

[RangerWickett]

Time are a'changin'. Lots of groups are unionizing, demanding raises, and forcing some changes in how things get run.