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?"

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Whiners.

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No one forces him to work at EA. Wal-mart and McDonald's are always hiring. Unless you're too good to earn $7/hr.

Re:WHAAAAAA!

[Flamingcheeze]

There is nothing keeping that person pressed into slave labor. It's called voluntary contract. If you hate your job, quit. Why is that so hard?

(I know it's the spouse doing the whining. What's your point? So I should have said, "WAAAAA! I hate my spouse's job!" Doesn't have the same ring to it, you know?)

Re:good lord

[Audigy]

amen to that... and I bet it's just a matter of time until he's discovered and subsequently fired. Hohoho.

Re:But you libertarian coders are too smart

[hambonewilkins]

Wish I had mod points, you'd get them. Libertarians should go to their Utopia, a place without governmental interference and where the free market rules: sub-saharan Africa or mob-controlled Russia!

Re:WHAAAAAA!

[Flamingcheeze]

Well, since I actually did read the post, there was no mention whatsoever about a contract. Salary and benefits. Sounds like voluntary employment, same as everyone else who works for a salary.

It's interesting to note that other people saying exactly what I said (perhaps a bit more tactfully) are getting modded "Insightful." heheh...

Re:Play games at hom

[IllForgetMyNickSoonA]

You do realize, however, that without that "Wookie", neither you nor your supervisor would have a job, don't you? You also realize that telling somebody that his/hers work "sucks", twice in a row, is exactly the reason why you QA/TQ/ISO9000PaperPushers types have such a low status among engineering departments?

You really make me sick.

LoL!!

[trifster]

what a whiny bitch! I hope her husband's job is offshored. then she'll never complain about 80 hr weeks. This is a free country...you and your SO don't like the company and the job, quit dumbass but I don't give two shits how bad big bad EA is. I hope he didn't screw up any code in my Madden this year.

Re:WHAAAAAA!

[Flamingcheeze]

Wow, did that make you feel better?

So the company is destroying people out of spite, huh? I'm sure that's really high on the priority list of the shareholders.

Tell me this: what is preventing any of those old kids from quitting? Are they literally shackled to their desks? Company holding a gun to their childrens' heads? No.

I absolutely agree that the company is treating their employees like crap. If I worked there, I would leave. What kind of a moron would destroy his marriage and family for a job? I place my family far above any company I've ever worked for.

Welcome to the world. I'm sorry it's so mean and nasty, but that's how it is. Deal with it or don't. Just spare me the whining when you don't have the will to make a voluntary change for the better.