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http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/


An employee's spouse explains what Electronic Art's human resource practices are. This is one of the reasons why I only buy indie games.

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:( Holy shit... this is REALLY bad. It was an interesting read, albeit quite a depressing one. Thanks for the link to this text!

Well, you know I hate those clueless guys who are so left that they would prefer to live in a Communist society rather than in a democracy and who keep repeating all the old Commie paroles without the slightest sense of reality...

but you got to admit one thing: Labour unions and strict laws to prevent such abuse as mentioned in the text seem to be necessary, and a high economic growth rate, which looks great on paper and makes every politician proud, loses much of its shine when you realize at what cost it is bought - and who pays the bill.

Right now, there's a debate in Germany about worker participation in companies... some want to modernize it, some neo-liberals even advocate its abolishment. It's a relief to see that even some leading German CEO's speak in favour of our worker participation rights, which seem to be quite unique in the world.

Btw: I always found "human resources" to be a disgustingly cynical, but at the same time very revealing term. :|

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lol thats funny... i bet they know what it is like to be latino and work in the US... too bad their are assholes that make Mexicans work 12 hour days for like $2.50>:( .....

"EA employees are in fact not in this pay bracket; ergo, these practices"
someone has seen the matrix too many times;)

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Making employees work like this is nothing unusual in the gaming industry, just with most other companies their employees get extra pay and benefits for working themselves to death.


When I was young and naiive I wanted to work in the gaming industry, but thankfully I snapped out of that dream years ago.

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WORD.

http://www.fatbabies.com
Be nosy.


*edit*
who's the gaming industry employee at BU who'll dare to add his participation to this thread ? :P
BTW: I got this link by Count Floyd a long time ago. When he was working for Gearbox... on the CZ bot.

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Heyyo,

Oh sweet jebus, that's horrible... I myself am thinking of getting into the gaming industry... eep... maybe PC support specialist isin't that bad of an idea as a backup carrer afterall...

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The IT industry as a whole is in really rough shape. IT unemployment is higher than the average unemployment rate.

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maybe I need to switch careers... :|
damn companies

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I changed my career because of whats going on in the industry. I'll be in the military for 3-6 years then maybe joining the RCMP or something. Not sure yet what I'll do after.

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the chinese work for 1 dollar a month

and soon in germany....if you are unemployed and try to gget work and dont...the unemployment office will employ you for 1 euro an hour....i will be one of them making 1 euro an hour as a form of forced low-paid slavery

the computer is great....but its killing us too....the matrix is getting more and more realistic :) hehehe