Just came across this and thought it was pretty funny. How much of this is actually true? Maybe some employee can tell.
This video conflates quite a few things likely because heās working with second or third-hand information depending on which article he used as his source. For example, he put up a picture of Scott of Plex when talking about being stress with fixing everything when that was happening to Sean of Moniker.
That aside, yes these things did happen (albeit mostly not in the way this video reports).
Interesting. Well, so was it fun or not? Seems a bit of both 
Plex doing something nobody asked for or wanted and it turning into an absolute disaster despite all the glaring red flags visible from the outset?
Seems on brand
Mostly it was fun.
Plex has done these āretreatsā (we call them Plexcon) every year except for 2020/21 (and apparently this year wonāt have one). For a remote company, the employees wouldnāt often see each other in person without it and it does foster friendships among the employees.
In every trip, there will be a few things that go wrong but this one seems to have had more problems than all the others I went on combined. Most of the problems were due to the location/venue. The former seal had other activities planned but equipment was not allowed past Honduran customs. The sand fleas, mosquitoes, fire ants, heat/humidity, porcupine, illness from eating a salad, etc were due to the being in that country. The people were stuck on Utila because a runway lacked lights and so the planes couldnāt fly that late in the day. Most everything else was due to the venue losing its manager about 2 weeks before we arrived. Perhaps the conclusion is donāt take a trip to Honduras?
