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Its like GMs employed by blizzard all totally addicted to wow so willing to work for low wage to play for free

[ez64]

Its like GMs employed by blizzard all totally addicted to wow so willing to work for low wage to play for free

Nice idiotic statment there, GM'n for blizzard is pretty much a dream job.

Working in the south of france for a very very decent wage, ive personally known a mate that did it for a year and he said it was more like a gap year than a job.

just a small snippet of what all blizzard personal get if you didnt think working in the south of france was enough,

Blizzard will provide accomodations for one month to make it easier for you to move to Paris and get settled in.
Blizzard will also provide you with the services of a specialized relocation agency that will help you with all the administrative tasks of moving, such as finding an appartment, opening a bank account, getting a phone line, and much more.
You will be granted a 50% discount on tickets for the Parisian public transportation system.
You will be given a 50% discount on restaurant coupons that can be used in almost all French restaurants and sandwich shops.
Blizzard employees also receive many secondary benefits: discounts on membership fees for fitness centers, large discounts on PC and video games, private health insurance, and much, much more.
The offices of Blizzard Europe were designed with the comfort of our employees in mind. Our large rest area features a kitchen, soda and snack machines with two free drinks per employee per day, and of course video game consoles with a frequent rotation of the latest games.
A large shopping mall is within short walking distance. In this mall are restaurants, supermarkets, pharmacies, electronics stores and many other businesses.

Oh and they never release general wages, he wouldnt tell me at the time as its part of the contract and I dont keep in touch with him anymore since he was a work friend.

[Isphera]

Its like GMs employed by blizzard all totally addicted to wow so willing to work for low wage to play for free

I couldn't find out how much they get paid, but it is described in a way in which the minimum working time is 40 hours a week, with overtime, weekends and nights when required.

Assuming they work the standard 40 hours in the usual Mon-Fri 9-5 format, plus 12 hours of overtime/night/weekend pay, at the British minimum wage, with a 20% bonus on overtime pay, the final yearly wage would be £16, 209 (2080 standard and 624 overtime hours in the year, under the assumption that they only have one day off, and any holidays are paid). They also gain in-game benefits, such as free game time and have the ability to give themselves stuff such as skills, mounts etc. (Not T6 gear on play-for-fun characters).

However, I estimate that their wage would be about £7.50 an hour with 15% bonus for overtime, with a lot more overtime being done. Therefore, factoring a standard 2-week holiday policy and all other days worked, that makes 250 days of weekdays and 100 of weekends. Assuming they work 8 hours a day on weekdays, that makes 2000 hours. With overtime, I would expect most of them to do an average of 25 a week, thus doing 1250 hours a year of overtime (may seem excessive, but the job is described as full time contract with the near-compulsory element of nights and weekend shifts for all GM's a week. This also assumes nights get the same as weekends.)

Therefore, this makes their yearly wage, using my (assumed) more realistic hourly wage, to be £25,781. This may be too high, but using my assumed values, this is the total. The main difference will probably be the base wage, as this is difficult to judge, and the overtime multiplier, as this will vary country to country and company to comapny (they are based in France and Ireland, and the base multiplier is actually averaged to be higher than those used.) Also remember, they gain the free game time and objects, as well as expected other perks.

EDIT: Ez, I would appreciate if you get your mate to tell you what the wage was, to see how close my estimate was