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EA Games: The Human Story
An anonymous reader writes "An Electronic Arts employee spouse speaks out against company crunch time practices. From the post: "EA's bright and shiny new corporate trademark is "Challenge Everything." Where this applies is not exactly clear. Churning out one licensed football game after another doesn't sound like challenging much of anything to me; it sounds like a money farm. To any EA executive that happens to read this, I have a good challenge for you: how about safe and sane labor practices for the people on whose backs you walk for your millions?"
What is SLEEP? Is that a new programming language? Does anybody have a link where I could look up some SLEEP resources, so I can get ahead of the game?
...would probably be something like this
"Useless organic meatbag" -HK-47
yet another reason not to get married.
What's that saying?
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Maybe Mr. Moan should seek a job a MSFT. Where deadlines and quality seems non-existent?
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
It's a copy of the article numbnuts.
I know atleast one profession now, where people don't go home and play video games to relax. It must feel like they were putting overtime :O
Libertarian, huh?
I can't say I've heard of that before. This guy is apparently salary the salary was right, I'm a developer who's salary and it's never been a question of do you want to work extra to meet this deadline, it's a matter of you will work as long as it takes. Which in all honesty is fine with me, I don't think you can stumble in to the development business with out knowing your going to be working insane hours more often than not. I knew this back in high school. If I wanted a normal 9 to 5 paid hourly job I would defiantly looked some where else. Notice the dev isn't writting the article, the spouce is.
Then again the Dev could be having an affair and just lying about working late...
500 dollar reward for tip(s) leading to the arrest of the person(s) who stole my sig.
Care to guess at the ratio actors get paid for their time vs programmers? Ha!
"I don't hear actors complaining very often about their long hours."
It's hard to complain when you're getting paid $20 million for six weeks work with all the free beer, coke and hookers you can handle...
Let me see if I understand this right. This anonymous woman is complaining that her husband is "working late at the office" too much?
I mean, just becasue she believes him doesn't mean we have to.
I knew a programmer who did data mining. He died from pneumohexidecimosis, commonly known as bitlung.
Unknown host pong.
Dude - hate to spoil it here for you people. But some people (such as myself) work well more than 100 hours a week, sometimes 36 hours at a stretch straigh, with no break, and people's lives in our hands. And I make about 39 grand a year before taxes.
I realize that your pizza-delivery job might seem to be a life-or-death struggle, but it really isn't. Take some time off.
A German shepherd could figure out what's happening to this organization.
Is the German shepherd available?
-EA Management
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
"You're not a team player, I'm writing you up."
Or, if your contract says you can be fired at any time, "You're not a team player, you're fired."
Or, "Um, yeah... I'm going to need you to go right ahead and move your desk down to Storage Room B..."
- chrish
I have an interview with EA next Thursday. I can't wait to see the look in their eyes when I pull this one out on them. You want to work 12 hours a day for 7 days a week, get paid a minimal salary, and then be "turned-over" after 2 years...I'll point them to your alias.
Actually the purpose it serves to make money for EA. A consumer's temporary entertainment seems to be a by-product lately...
I've been very unfulfilled by my jobs in the IT industry and I'm getting out to pursue a career in medicine.
All my money went to Nigeria and all I got was this lousy sig. . .
Old people fall. Young people spring. Rich people summer and winter.