None of the flexed workers receive overtime, bonuses or extra compensation and are still held accountable for meeting personal and departmental metrics. And instead of offering anybody more money to work that job, just keeps pouring people into it from other departments.”Īnother worker emphasised that some positions require special training or knowledge, but nearly all job descriptions are ignored under the daily need to somehow squeeze three to five extra hours of work from each employee’s eight-hour day. People are standing in one spot, shuffling back and forth forever. “These people quit on the spot or just walk out because the job sucks. “They cannot retain staff for the life of them,” one worker said. The repetitive work, lack of ergonomic support and huge influx of orders over the past three years has put particular strain on this department - in one case allegedly leading to the majority of an overnight team resigning together, including a supervisor. Reportedly, one of the hardest hit sections were the overnight teams who fulfil online orders by pulling MTG singles from their expansive inventory, called “picking”. ![]() ![]() The employees claimed flexing has been an issue since at least the autumn of 2021 but grew progressively worse as Card Kingdom’s employee retention continued to deteriorate. Watch on YouTube Wheels runs down a list of great trading card games other than Magic: The Gathering. When another lead would accept this request, their workers “flex” into the missing roles to help fulfil online orders, sort mail or complete other necessary work and then return to their actual positions to begin making up for the lost time. Documents provided to Dicebreaker show supervisors and shift leads from several departments regularly requesting between 25 and 70 hours of additional labour per day through a dedicated internal messaging app. Employees we spoke to said internal emails extolling the “financial highs" the company has achieved over the past three years did not match their pay, opportunities, physical working conditions, nor the excuse that “we haven’t recovered from COVID" commonly used against requests to solve, or at least ameliorate, long-standing issues within the company.Įvery worker who spoke to Dicebreaker described the now-pervasive “flex” system used to compensate sorely-needed labour in various departments. In a statement to Dicebreaker, Card Kingdom strenuously denied that there is any general mismanagement or a culture of unsafe or negligent practices. ![]() The two young boys now strive to become the strongest wizard in the Clover Kingdom, The Wizard King.Several employees of Card Kingdom, one of the largest retailers of Magic: The Gathering singles in the US, have accused their employer of maintaining a culture of severe overworking, unsafe conditions that include inadequate facilities and a general mismanagement that they allege keeps workers stuck in underpaid, dead-end positions.įive employees of various Card Kingdom locations in King County, Seattle spoke to Dicebreaker under anonymity, detailing a shift in the company’s attitude and messaging over the course of the pandemic. ![]() Asta, unfortunately, seems to have been born without magical powers while Yuno is a young prodigy whose magical powers rival that of the strongest magic users in the Clover Kingdom, the Magic Knights. The popular series follows two young boys named Asta and Yuno who are growing up in a world where magic is everything. Yuki Tabata first created Black Clover for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2015. If you wanted to check out Black Clover's anime for yourself, you can currently find the series steaming on Crunchyroll, FunimationNOW, and airing as part of Adult Swim's Toonami block every Saturday. But what do you think? Does the threat of death change the stakes in Black Clover? Let us know your thoughts in the comments or talk to me directly about all things anime and other cool things on Twitter! Death had never been completely on the table for this series before, so these deaths are an indication that the Spade Kingdom is a far more terrifying opponent that Yuno and others really need to be ready for.
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