Its a shame.
I certainly wouldn't want to be forced to work a 6-day week, even if it was for "only" 6 weeks.
I see comments from people saying "Its not too bad, they're getting paid for it" like that isn't the bare minimum.
Honestly, I would much rather that they delayed the game by a further week or 2, instead of taking it out on the employees.
Really disappointed in CDPR, here.
I used to work at a cardboard production plant, we made cardboard boxes for a multitude of different brands. From water heaters for homes, to Little Debbie snack boxes. The plant ran 24/7, and had 3 shifts of 8 hours. The amount of material that went through that plant was insane. And if your counterpart on another shift didn't show up, you had to stay over 4 more hours, and the other guy on the other end of the short shift, had to come in 4 hours early. Doesn't sound too bad, until you consider that some jobs were very specific, and only certain people on the different shifts were double trained. So while my guy on 3rd shift might actually be there that day, he was not doing MY job, as he was filling in for the control room guy, because the other control room guy was on vacation for 2 weeks, or in one case, dead, and they hadn't brought in a new guy. So I had to stay over, to fill his spot, while he filled that other guys spot. And this would go on for weeks. And then it would shift, because once vacation guy was back on 3rd shift, a guy on 1st shift would take HIS vacation, and we'd start the game of musical chairs all over again, but this time, I'm coming in early, not staying late. And it was a hot job. The machines that baked the paper into cardboard ran around 600deg Fahrenheit, flash steaming the material that was going through the feeder at....i think probably around 40-50 miles per hour? Really fucking fast, so it had to be super hot since it was only in contact with the material to bake it for like half a second. So, this machine is putting out so many BTUs of heat, that even during the winter, I'm wearing shorts and a tshirt, and still sweating balls. During the summer, it was even worse, as my post was near the roof of the factory, so heat rises, so I'm even more cooked. During the summer, I would drink probably 8 liters of water, if not more, and I'd sweat so much I would rarely use the bathroom.
The stress of this setup, for month after month, drove me to the point, where I, a guy who really hates any kind of violence or conflict, so much so that I get physically ill when confronted by someone in an aggressive manner, was SERIOUSLY contemplating punching out the Plant Manager, because he was being an asshole on a survey of our shift, and I just really wasn't in the mood to take his shit. I did in fact, cuss him out, but restrained from punching his asshole face. That was when I realized I needed to quit that job. Because I was seriously contemplating physical violence on another person. ME, and, I know you people don't know me, but trust me, that's a tall order to get me to WANT to inflict violence on someone. So I quit the job a week later, since you know, I didn't want to go to jail for assault.
But hey, the pay was really good! So that makes up for all of the physical strain, injuries, heat strokes, having to work with blatant racists (my coworker would seriously call hispanics w-backs, and black the N word, and couldn't understand why I didn't like him saying that shit around me). I've got hearing loss from the noise level, because the hearing protection was shit, and a bunch of other things. *sarcasm*
So yeah, crunch can go fuck off. The monetary compensation does not make up for the other things you lose. The longer it goes on, the more diminishing returns kick in, until you are just a walking corpse, without anything good going on.
