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NYT on EA Games
The New York Times has a story investigating the EA Games accusations that we reported on before. They use the phrase "toiling like galley slaves" to describe EA's programmers, and note that EA has a formal policy of hiring young, naive people who are willing to work long hours for low pay.
nice to see that the new york times is keeping up with last weekends UserFriendly
For times liket these I wish there was a new rating
,What the Hell?!
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Where are the eggs??? That could solve some very important nutrition problems in the cubicle...
Wait, ew, gross... eating your own eggs??
OK That's great, now I don't think I can eat dinner tonight. BTW, do chickens in cages get to leave to go to the bathroom? Because that would be gross if workers couldn't leave a cubicle to do that. But, the way some cubicles smell, maybe you couldn't tell the difference...
This suggests that it needs to conduct a survey to learn whether a regular routine of 80-hour weeks is popular among the salaried rank and file.
Next, EA will be conducting a survey to determine if employees like to be fed poison, being impaled or imolated...
how long until
This is Slashdot.
You mean I can get paid for doing this stuff?
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
I for one welcome our new long hour programming low pay overlords!
ItWasFree.com - Take the mystery
Somebody has to win one for Colonel Blair
n00b. Back in my day, we had to crank our Rapiers and Claymores with a winch. When it got stuck in the snow, we had to get out and push it all the way to Kilrah and back, uphill both ways! We also didn't have any namby-pamby Mark Hamill playing our lead. No, sir!
Man, Origin really did "not suck" before EA bought them. Ultima 9 sealed it for me: EA sucks. It's in the game.
I was unaware that stories had investigative ability. I want to see a story running around investigating things. That'd be some story!
We must get rid of this un-American notion that people work to live and are entitled to an enjoyable lifestyle outside of work. If you believe that, move to Communist France or somewhere like that. America did not become the mightiest power on earth by its citizens slacking off for the weekend.
Suddenly, I am hungry...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I'm pretty sure that's just a coincidence, because nobody reads Userfriendly.
How do you get into the building every day? I'd figure your head wouldn't fit through the door.
if you walk into a lightsaber i dont want to hear about it
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
I've been to India and I've seen the dirt and filth a lot of these guys have clawed their way out of to get educated and get to the US
Yeah, so let's decimate the American worker so that in ten years he can live in dirt and filth and claw his way out to get educated and get to India! That'll show those whiny Americans!
You first.
Proud neuron in the Slashdot hivemind since 2002.
/me looks over your new, EA-upgraded resume.
Ah, we'll put him on doomed project X, and see if working him seventy hours a week turns things around. We won't even have to pay him a bonus. He's used to this sort of thing.