It is starting to feel like an industry famous for horrible workplaces is starting to be recognized as an industry famous for being a horrible workplace.

Working in a kitchen as celebrated as this takes a huge amount of dedication, discipline, and desire to stick it out. This echoes across all creative pursuits that become businesses. From video games, to film, VFX, cooking, writing. The desire to be a part of something incredible can subsume a sense of self respect.

https://apple.news/As-xtnLv8QZGmpXJGm396IA

Napa Valley’s famed French Laundry sued for alleged labor violations — San Francisco Chronicle

A former French Laundry employee has sued the three-Michelin-starred restaurant over lost wages and several other alleged California labor code violations.

@Gte maybe thats not your intention, so I apologize in advance for my bad English reading, but “The desire to be a part of something incredible can subsume a sense of self respect.” Sounds like victim blaming…
I’d start with people in power using that power to make themself feel more grand by stomping on people around them that dont have power to stop them…
@kviksilver “We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. You’d be surprised how hard people work over around here. They work nights and weekends, sometimes not seeing their families for a while. Sometimes people work through Christmas to make sure the tooling is just right at some factory in some corner of the world so our product comes out the best it can be. People care so much, and it shows.”
@schwa @kviksilver Just so we’re all clear here: I intend “subsume” to be akin to “drown”. It isn’t a good thing.
@schwa yup, people with power… 🤷‍♂️