Exaggerated or you think its crazy and justified to call her out ?


TECH
Ex-Employees Reveal Alleged Workplace Abuse At Recently-Shut Indonesian Gaming Company

The animation studio has worked on games such as 'The Last of Us Part 1' and 'Final Fantasy VII Rebirth'.


Former employees of Brandoville Studios, a now-defunct gaming art studio based in Jakarta, Indonesia, are taking to social media to reveal the alleged abuse and exploitation they suffered at the company


Brandoville Studios, a Triple-A game animation outsourcing studio, prided itself in contributing works to renowned publishers of high-profile, high-budget games such as The Last of Us Part 1 and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

However, weeks after its sudden unexplained closure in August, anonymous postings have emerged regarding the company's toxic working environment, especially centred around one manager, the chief executive officer's wife, Cherry Lai.


A former employee, Christa Sydney, has compiled a Google Drive filled with screenshots of internal messages revealing the abuse she and her colleagues suffered under the management of Lai


These incidents included:
- Verbal intimidation, indoctrination, and shaming of employees in the team's group chat
- Use of inappropriate language, profanities, and frequents threats to fire employees
- Denying employees of leave when sick or a family member has passed away
- Cutting employees' pay or demanding parts of their salary back as a form of punishment
- Encouraging employees to work overtime, including past midnight, weekends, and public holidays, without additional compensation
- Forcing employees to pay for their own courses, work trips, and tools

Christa also detailed her own experiences of alleged abuse from the moment she joined the company in 2019 to when she left in July 2024.

She highlighted many moments of manipulation and mistreatment, culminating to an incident where she had to slap herself 100 times and send proof of it to Lai through a video on WhatsApp.

The company was even called out in 2021 for its exploitative work conditions by investigative video game journalism YouTube channel, People Make Games


The channel interviewed former and then-employees of Brandoville Studios, as well as Malaysian company Lemon Sky Studios. It found how such gaming studios exploit their workers by encouraging them to work 70-hour weeks and not paying them overtime.

Many employees admitted to sleeping and living at the office to meet absurd deadlines.

"You have to do it or leave," said one former artist. "I worked OT almost everyday, between 10 and 30 hours per week."

A Brandoville representative admitted to the YouTuber that they do not pay their employees overtime as their resources are spent on these entry-level artists' training. The company also argued that the extra hours are voluntary and that the employees worked hard at their own pleasure.

According to the video, the employees were only paid between four and five million rupiah (RM1,100 to RM1,400).


Drillz inside


https://says.com/my/amp/tech/ex-employees-r...-gaming-company

This post has been edited by Raddus: Sep 14 2024, 11:26 AM

This milf not bad, anymore picture?

useless husband

This woman gone completely mental abusing her position

In general, women should not be in positions of power. This kind of lady boss abusing employees is very typical.

Even got ktard here complain about his lady boss before. LOL

U sure?

I get your point.
Malaysia politics is full of heaven to you then.
It's dominated by men.

Rosmah

pretty

got more pics?

Now PMX in power, Malaysia will become great nation, right? 😊

Keyword not found...
Is woman a keyword?

Men are better than women. Men are XY. Women are only XX.

This difference results in a huge difference....

Inb4 #CrazyCatLady



This post has been edited by Hobbez: Sep 14 2024, 03:37 AM

Lolyat.id
This crazy biatch from PRC?

I guess this mental woman is from SG

PRC from Shanghai?

macam sial, sohai PRC

Wow this level of giler... I multiply x10 punya lahanat on my pattern on Bharat people also cannot match her 1 whatsapp message... Damn me level so low now.

asli dari medan ke lol

ccp lady
english berterabur

Tukar company je la. Kena bullied like this ,still wanna work and then complained like a bitch on the internet to get sympathy point. Game dev thinks like the world is obliged to care about them.

I want to see Christa

Crazy shit, throw in jail and throw the key.

this is why some women should just stay in the kitchen and some can be top in managements. but for this case better just stick back and be a humble wife.

Salahan DAP versi Indon.

Joking, just typcal wimminz bos

Spent some time to read, the boss is from MLM background nuskin

why the fuck all the employees fucking weakling?

chow chi bai

Damn i bought ff7 rebirth wo. Accidentally supported slave labor

Working for a psychopath never ends well.

This is wild

For people who wonder why employees stick around - it’s probably because of financial constraints

I hope justice is served here, looks like plenty of supporting evidence and witnesses

This is why you don't let women work.

Extremely sohai boss who leave trails for employee to retaliate using it

Anyone from the video game industry wants to comment on this?

For many of us folk here it’s workplace oppression, but not sure if this is a norm in your industry?

Because I heard many other game companies complaining the same toxic culture

This is crazy

Wtf

🤬

Drunk on power.
Its addicting

Run business like that, ego much.

She's quite pretty if she's 45.

Anyway she's a sociopath. Batshit crazy too.

Typical Shanghai ccp

Anyone not Shanghai is lower than them

I can't think of reasons why the employees were so meek and weak.

what baffles me is that Christa girl, was fired, rehired as intern, got money extorted, physically, verbally, emotionally abused, not being paid enough, I think there's more

but still stayed around for few months? and stayed with family, so I assume financially still ok? at least can survive before finding a new job

but I assume she stayed to collect evidence, good also, don't think those 2 (the ceo and wife) will able to setup a company for some time

Huh? Brandonville is once part of Malaysia's Lemon Sky. Wonder how's the work culture at Lemon Sky is

I give you 2 mins to be very awake and call me in 1.7 minutes. Proceeds to not answer call at all

She drunk messaging or what?

Chainagirl from shanghai

Why am im not surprised?

Drillz for Christa Sydney

Chinaman and wirker abuse x betpisah.

Omg /k gonna be like

U need my permission to quote me!

I'm not happy with the way u reply, try again!

Not polite enough, try again bitch!!

Indonesia like this maybe

Got 1 stupid bitch like this in the property sector in Kuching too.

Don't know why government can't just proactively put these people on a list, routine check confirm will find near slave like treatment

Wow so abusive towards staff, I wonder how she treat her hubby? Maybe more story behind the couple….

Weird why the bitch has yet to be slapped by ppl

Type Cherry ni is the norm la.

batshit crazy woo

Retarded CCP wimmin ☕

mental...summore dunno how to abuse..must learn never to leave record, if want to maki just call...lol

Ccp

Puih

Kohona is land of fire

woman boss and mainland. fuhh ,deadly combination

This kind of boss should be slapped. Bangsat punya perangai

Parking

Er...he realy is tinkin msia is great now. LEL

Job opportunity x total population. Msia n sg dun have tis issue. Try when u have more than 100m population, work shit also u will work in hope can find a breakthru.

indonesia

just like china

high population high competition cut throat pay

with that kind of boss
sure turn her into punk

i like cute BDSM like a lady boss
she got onlyfans i can simp to ?

lel, i dy doubting the first pic on ts post because she doesnt look the same with whatsap avatar

Indon 😅

i don't understand why the employee don't go work somewhere but instead she choose to endure all this bullshit. Job opportunity so shitin her field?

one can only imagine what it's like to work in shanghai

so git good in your job and have plenty of options available ya kawan2?

keyword is Indonesia

Micro managers. All they know is bark. Reminds me of my ex lady boss manager.

sunk cost, stockholm, low opinion of oneself, imagined lack of employment opportunities, plenty

friend's intervention is very much needed at this point for people who are not used to fighting for their own wellbeing

some just love throwing their weight around

i'm guessing it looks good on the resume. so they try to tolerate as much as they can.

same like how animators tolerate low pay and crushing workload at MAPPA, because it looks good on their resume

This post has been edited by cyhborg: Sep 14 2024, 11:27 AM

Probably coz the studio worked for AAA games

Very hot take

If I get good games, I don't care if someone dies in the process making it. Most of us will not feel bad that's a fact. If you say otherwise, you are delusional.

This post has been edited by h0riz0nLine: Sep 14 2024, 11:32 AM

universally true kot

we turn a blind eye on the fact that our luxuries are built on someone's suffering

Gila punya milf jangan main.

Like people said, don't stick the D into crazies.

Even the kangkang was presented Infront of you

Bcc ukeke

he stuck leaw now reaping the fruits of his labour

Cukur wukong no outsource

it's messed up, but you're not wrong

Who knows how many PRC men died in the making of Wukong.

They say at the bottom or inside of the Great Wall of China, got many bones....

This post has been edited by Hobbez: Sep 14 2024, 11:41 AM

yo china so large they have their own bangladesh within the borders

Pandai kolplen in soc med but kena maki everyday. All stop work and see if she dare fire everyone at one shot or not? Mostly strawberry gen ckp besar throw letter but telo kecut.

This post has been edited by pgsiemkia: Sep 14 2024, 11:42 AM

Let them work can.

But don't micromanaging. It's in their DNA.

you got boss like this?

only choice one please

hotdayum doomsday metalfire porkicorgi5588

Red lace OL lady boss can.

Crazy lady indon boss 🙅‍♂️

lmao

i have ladyboss too last time, that micro manage to the point she wants to know your underwear also what colour today.

but i stand firm and she was transfered not long after.

strawberry gen need to grow some balls.

Did you inform her your color of underwear on Monday morning?

I tot wukong took their time and is small dev team

too bad she will never know what colour is it and what hiding inside it.

iron lady type

auntie gila

Ma boss is man

Jennie Mana.

metalfire

Jennie itu HR.
Boss is a man.

I also find it weird that some people kena tindas and abuse for years but only voice out when scandal reviewed by news.

But then again, you see western "liberal" countries, also got many cases like this, Trump also one of them.

I think the problem is, if people rich and powerful, many people too afraid to voice out, it is the nature of most people.

Imagine if you not much education, not much skills or money, no opportunity and only got this job working for them, you may also end up abused and keep quiet.

Malaysia also, look at the Najib case? The latest GISB whatever case?

Most people are not brave, they don't like to fight and take risk, so easy to manipulate, exploit and tindas.

This is the truth that we have to accept.

Worse is some of them if you complete you task without any issue sure kena.

Like boss ask you finish at 6pm, you completed at 530pm.

Still get scold for finish too early, not "discipline" enough.

Tindas few times at start maybe think its genuine mistake and kena scolded also she said she is fresh grad so she may think its normal

Its only when it adds up then it exploded and too much for her