Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit

As a follow-up to yesterday's story about a frustrated EA employee's spouse, several readers wrote in to report that EA is now facing a possible class action lawsuit from disgruntled employees. Besides the Gamespot coverage, Kotaku has a discussion of it as well. To add to the "frustrated EA worker" momentum, a former employee named Joe Straitiff has posted about his experiences as well. From his post: "So I'm posting under my real name -- you have to stand up to this type of thing or it will continue. And every company will become EA so that can compete... Remember, you can't spell ExploitAtion without EA."

Comments

Re:Excuse me sir, but could you please evolve?

[Mr Guy]

While I agree that we have laws for this sort of thing, we also have contracts for this sort of thing. Has it ever occured to quitting a job is ONLY not an option for people who make their decisions entirely on the criterion of lifestyle? People generally have two options in life, live within your means or adjust your means to your lifestyle.

If the company is breaking the law, they should be punished. If the company is simply enforcing contracts that people agreed to when the dollar signs overrode their common sense, the employees should shut up or consider a career change.

You either do what you need to do or you shut up about it. That includes changing lifestyle or changing careers.