Twitter Thread: Employees Have Meetings On Red Dead Redemption

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May 22, 2020 4:00 PM EDT

Wow, this sounds like quite the fun and engaging way to run a meeting. Viviane Schwarz described how she'd grown tired of the infamous Zoom meeting format, so she and others that she worked with mixed it up by having meetings on Red Dead Redemption. We love it. 

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    Text - Viviane Schwarz @vivschwarz Zoom sucks, we started having editorial meetings in Red Dead Redemption instead. It's nice to sit at the campfire and discuss projects, with the wolves howling out in the night
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    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 4h Replying to @vivschwarz Sometimes the game forgets that the camp exists and suddenly your just in the dark woods with the wolves, but that's kind of invigorating. 1 27 5 209
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    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 4h The main technical hitches we've had is that sometimes the meeting table doesn't exist for everyone, and sitting on the ground is the same button as attempting to strangle the nearest person. Still beats zoom 27 46 410
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    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 4h "I just ordered coffee but it didn't get delivered" "It probably went to the post office, try rejoining the posse" "Ah that worked, and oh that also healed my horse" "Very good. - So, do we know the page count..." "Was that gunshots?" "Don't worry, we got the white flag up." 1 27 4 157 >
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    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 4h "Can you parlay these people, they keep hogtying me" "Where did you spawn?" "Am I not on the map?" "You're miles away... Let me just kick you out from to the posse and invite you again"
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    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 4h Don't edit the shared Google doc or switch to cinematic camera while riding a horse at speed. 27 5 128 Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 4h Since people are asking: you can't have meetings in Red Dead Redemption two until you've done the intro quests in online mode, which takes up to an hour depending on whether the people you get paired up with for staff training decide to sabotage your horse wrangling
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  • 07
    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 3h Friend invite will be greyed out until you've dressed up, gone to raid the bandits, got the treasure map, found the treasure, picked up a job to steal horses, brought the house back and decided what colour the saddle is. Then you can form a posse with your editorial team. 115
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    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 3h A perk of this is that when you agree that the meeting is over you can all jump on your horses and do crime or justice, which is a lot less awkward than everyone smiling at the camera while they're trying to sign off 27 17 173 Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 3h Plus, if you do well in the post meeting, next time you might get nice mismatched chairs by the campfire and don't have to sit on the ground.
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    Text - Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 3h Also the landscape is amazing so you can walk and talk, and if some other posse attacks they only get five minutes to fight you, which is in effect a tea break except you don't have to pretend to make tea, or agree when it happens. 3 27 5 107 Viviane Schwarz O @vivschwarz · 3h Anyway, the book is looking good. 107
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