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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?"
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.
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.