EA Faced With Another Employee Lawsuit

GamesIndustry.biz has the news that EA has been slapped with another employee-filed lawsuit. He's part of the engineering staff, and feels unfairly targeted by the "creative staff" laws in CA. From the article: "...in the midst of a storm of unwanted publicity about EA's employment practices, and provoked a response from the firm's vice president of human resources, Rusty Reuff, who admitted that 'as much as I don't like what's been said about our company and our industry, I recognize that at the heart of the matter is a core truth.'"

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Re:Employers Need to Be Smart

[Golias]

Hey, if you are a good enough programmer to get a job at EA, and don't like the treatment, go work for a bank or an insurance company or a med-tech company or something. They will pay you more and work you less. You lose the "sexy" ability to say you make computer games for a living, but that's the trade off.

Seriously. I work for a medical software company in the midwest, and we get phat recruiting bonuses for finding reliable new hires. If you are an EA programmer who thinks he's getting the shaft, let me know. You can probably do very well with us. Otherwise, quitcherbitchin!

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. There are a lot of fresh-faced college kids who would kill for the chance to be exploited the way you are right now.