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- gorion
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and this is happening everywhere in the industry, not only at EA.
- digitaldiva0
oddly, the same day those are posted, this news also hits.
"Employees readying class-action lawsuit against EA"
- digitaldiva0
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- jpea0
doesn't surprise me... the dev team at the place i used to work at did similar things, except that the unrealistic expectations came from our publisher, not our actual producers or president or anything.. it's mostly in the publishing end (EA owns it's own publisher, so it's a little weird)
- iDp0
Friend of mine got laid off from EA...he said it was nuts there but I had no clue it was this nuts.
- K_Fresh0
Hmm I'm a designer at EA...and so far...the hours haven't been crazy. If that changes... I'll be lookin' for a new job!
- whoohaa0
they outsource the work to the creative and passionate ones
it's about time somebody is suing the big man
oh don't buy EA games now, use the local torrent or whatever
- ********0
peopel will only screw you if you let them
- jpea0
K_Fresh:
good to know that it doesn't apply to everyonefrom my experience it wasn't too bad either (wasn't with EA, but a developer that published with globalstar). the only people that put unrealistic deadlines on things were the publishers... maybe it works out better if it's a self-contained publishing deal or something
- superbaka0
a couple of pics i shot of EA's new building's garage during construction -
http://www.folio.superbaka.com/s…
thank god i get paid hourly over at sony. same insane hours, tho.
- werker0
"and this is happening everywhere in the industry, not only at EA."
And yet nobody does a damn thing about it. Everyone bitches and complains and just gets another job.
back in the 90s we all did this for stock options, but now, there isnt even that option.
this goes in another direction- anyone notice how multi-nationals are getting around US based class acton lawsuits?
hello china...
- jpolk0
The last company i worked for was basically like that.
they traded in my CD for some corporate consulting slave driver, who canned 2 guys on my team & refused to hire replacements. They refused to accept our feedback on deadlines, and let the clients dictate them.
70-75 hour weeks were not at all uncommon, we hit 80+ multiple times and pulled many all nighters (maybe 10 in 2 mos.). We'd receive promise of comp days, but literally were refused every attempt to take them.
One Sunday we worked from 10AM until 3PM Monday, and i got 4 messages on my mobile asking if i could come in upon waking up.
i started losing it upon doing the math and learning what i was making hourly...
some weeks it was barely above minimum wage + benefits...
funniest part, once i was extremely fed up, they canned me for coming in at 10AM after working until 4AM + having a bad attitude (after 2 years exceptional performance reviews), and made me sue for unemployment. They also filed a lawsuit forcing me to remove any work done there from my portfolio.
pretty sure i don't ever want another job.
- tuig0
werker...isn't your name well saying it all...
agreed at my former workplace i had also crazy hours.it was a company specialized in motion design,but consider it as a drive in mc donalds...you give your order and in 2 days you get yur intro,or videoclip or whatever...that was my first job after graduating,now i'm in a company with also some crazy projects but at least they ask me..how long is it going to take you,is this possible;they also gave me the power(not like he-man) to hire some freelancers if it gets to much...great atmosphere there....
- tuig0
its the result of this consumer driven' society where everything has to go faster,cost less and work twice as good.
you can see it in ecery branch of society.here in belgium the postmen have to follow a geo delivery route now.they heve two(!) minutes to deliver the mail in an entire street.
a friend of mine works as an assembly line employee at ford motor company..he has to assemble 100 cars aday(he h$is in charge of welding the chassis,or something like that)
its getting a bit out of hand guys...
- adamfinger0
That's beyond criminal.
- promqueen0
i remember the web industry just as bad as the gaming industry when it first came out, with companies working themselves to death to undercut the competition. how do we keep this from happening and having pitches for a fixed price instead of time and materials? are web people still working like this?...our company has gotten way better at managing our resources from burning them out.