Nonsense. Bethesda employees do not have families or go on holidays. They are always tied to their desks making games, occasionally pausing to take a sip of water from the communual trough or hunt rats for food.
Yeah, they're a couple of floors above the moderators. Anyone who doesn't meet the productivity targets feeds the cyber chinchillas. Its a very effective motivator -- manhandling trolls is both physically tiring and mentally painful

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EDIT: Forgot to say that the targets increase every time they're met.