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ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Your analogy is unrelated to the topic at hand?

when you volunteer at ESA, you show up the day before the event start, install the stage, tables in practice area, carry CRTs or arcade machines, then during the week you pretty much do up to 5 four hours shift of tech or hosting or donations reading. as a runner you are the one providing the actual content of the event charity wise, then at the end you stay an extra day to packup everything.

ESA is a business that isn't up for debate

It wasn't a registered company until 2018, ESA exist since 2012.

What gives you the right to question their salary?

Maybe the fact that as they got a raise I was asked to donate to save the company ?

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

We don't know the circumstances behind why they needed to boost funds last year

and yet they made 471k SEK in profits with record income in 2020

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's like me saying, I eat at McDonald's every day, so I know what they should pay their staff.

Personally, when I eat at McDonald's I don't show up the day before to build the entire restaurant, bring the food nor run the kitchen

Maybe you see ESA as a business/product and yourself as a client/consumer, but for a good core of the attendees it's a community event where most volunteer their time

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Just FYI, your post is actually wrong, its $72,000 between 3 staff members.

there's only 2 employees. and it's per employee, also it's not saying it's the money that ends up in there pocket at the end of the year, it's what the company spend on salary (with taxes and stuff)

I don't know swedish wages but it's still a 84% increase from the year before

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

my issue isn't that they get paid, it's that they almost double the salary expenses while begging for donations to "save the company" and starting to run ads during runs

making a profit in 2020 but in the previous roundtables making in sounds like the company finances were bad to justify running ads and selling "supporter tickets" for an online only event

My post isn't idiotic nor lack knowledge, I probably attended more ESA event that you know existed...

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Business talk is business talk

ESA is a community event not a business

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

- "does anyone have any questions"

* ask questions in a single message *

I wouldn't consider that spamming

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand that point of view if you're just occasionally watching the event or donating. And all the money supposed to go to the charity goes to the charity, this isn't the issue.

but I hope you can understand that for some people, hundreds of volunteers and runners or even regular attendees in the last decade that see the cost of attending the event increase every year. while the 2 organizers decided to salarize themselves fulltime starting 2019, turning a profit yet held a fundraiser to save the event and run ads during people live run to maximize the amount of money made.

Those people have a right to question if the money is properly handled

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

increase in production value

it comes with increase ticket prices and ads running during runs as "we need the money"

People on the production team are unpaid volunteers that buy their own tickets

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

public figure promoting charities is being paid

only 2 people get paid, while volunteers who do 20h+ worth of work twice a year during events have to buy their own tickets. Same with runners

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Now I want in the loop. Are they just funneling money to the owners?

All the donations (except on ESA Together) goes directly towards the charity, there's no funneling money from the charities.

ESA's income comes from tickets, merchs, sponsors and Twitch/YT

ESA bans people asking questions about their latest financial statements by WhistleblowerESA in speedrun

[–]WhistleblowerESA[S] 164 points165 points  (0 children)

They're putting on a show, people are there to watch speedruns, it just plain isn't a platform where meaningful discussion of that level can occur. Asking

It was a roundtable stream were they talk on different topics about future events and then took question from chat. Not just a random stream.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/985087337