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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know, people in 2024 have gotten soft and sensitive and being a boss in 2024 is a nightmare. |
0:07.6 | And I'll give you an example. Like me as the boss, if I made it a mandatory company policy |
0:11.2 | that you have to naked sauna with me and your coworkers, some people now are going to say that's |
0:15.8 | inappropriate. That feels like it should be illegal. When in reality, I'm just trying to set up |
0:20.5 | my employees for success. |
0:22.0 | And at this point, if you're going, Phil, you sound like a crazy person. |
0:26.1 | Well, boy, did I get you, Final Fantasy, Heart of Darkness, |
0:38.6 | The Tourist, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, which is kind of a strange edition at the end, but whatever. |
0:42.8 | But rather, because the company's creative director, Yassik, Pierkowski, he had, we'll call it, a very |
0:47.3 | eye-catching back and forth with a narrative designer and writer on LinkedIn. See, because he |
0:51.2 | offered her a potential job to which she replies, hey, you must not remember we've actually already spoken before explaining. |
0:56.0 | From what you said, you considered naked sauna sessions a part of work responsibilities in your studio. |
1:01.0 | I told you, that's a deal breaker for me, and we've called it a day. |
1:04.0 | And understandably, a lot of people saw that and they were like, excuse me, what the fuck? |
1:07.0 | Mandatory naked sauna sessions? Okay, Harvey Weinstein? But, well, as it turns out, |
1:11.4 | the game's main character will be a sauna master and will be in charge of performing in various |
1:15.2 | saunas. Right, that's according to a help wanted ad for the studio, which explains that |
1:18.2 | attending the sauna sessions is, quote, not negotiable because the entire team needs to understand |
1:22.9 | the product. And as Pierskowski noted elsewhere, certain saunas are so humid that your towel just get drenched in seconds, which could lead to a fungal infection. |
1:29.3 | And so for those, he says that you should be naked with nudity optional for the dry ones. |
1:33.3 | And with all this, when he was pressed on LinkedIn, he defended himself saying, |
1:36.3 | My narrative girls had to go to sauna with me to come up with amazing script for proof of concept. Technically, it's possible to do it without it, but I absolutely adore the |
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