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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You got that right...

[tc]

Best quote from the article:

Their case argues that EA's engineers "do not perform work that is original or creative,"

EA games have no orignality or creativity? Say it ain't so!

Re:If the EA suits were paying ANY attention at al

[Golias]

But when a new verson of Madden Football comes out, most gamers with jobs end up going more than 24 hours without sleep, too. Seems to me that all QA should be done by sleep-depraved zombies, to simulate real-world conditions.

To EA:

[DoktorSeven]

If you need to hire someone that won't be a crybaby when you make them work long hours for tons of money, hire me. Programming 100+ hours a week for good money is infinitely better than unemployment.

I'll be waiting for your call.

Thanks,
DoktorSeven

Re:If the EA suits were paying ANY attention at al

[DuctTape]

Force your employees where their sleep debt over the course of a week is above 24 hours, and imagine what you've got.

Um, a doctor?

DT