EA sucks: proof

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:22 pm

No, Kash, you like a game that bears the Irrational Games logo. There's a difference.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:24 pm

yeah lets not play a game because it's on a certain platform/by a certain publisher/whatever lol

burnout 3 demo was good so eh, who gives a shit.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:30 pm

Spazmo wrote:No, Kash, you like a game that bears the Irrational Games logo. There's a difference.

So you're saying EA didn't publish it then?

I agree with Pyro.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:59 pm

I think we might see an official response from EA about this, as the livejournal entry is getting quite a bit of press coverage.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:16 pm

or perhaps they'll just shut it down and be like, yeah...who gives a monkeys?

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:30 pm

http://www.livejournal.com/users/joestraitiff/368.html

another pissed employee, this time going under his real name

and EA are being sued for unpaid wages as well.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:42 pm

EA's got some 'splaining to do...

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:57 pm

jeez you guys wake up and smell the dogshit. companies do this all the time. Well not all the time. But some time. s. Does it make any difference if it's GOODMAN'S PLASTIC weed-WARE INC. or some other big company or whatever. People only give a shit because it's OMGGAMESLOLEASUCKS. What next, making fun of micro$oft? :roll: way to go guys, way to fight the power way to rage against the machine eh

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:03 pm

Not all companies abuse their employees the way EA apparently is....oh, right. You don't like reading. Never mind.

Doesn't the US have any employee regulations?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:11 pm

Look jerkface, I can't be bothered about reading some other little pissant whiner's problems unless you can put them in easy-to-read quotes okay. And take your head out of your fucking ass and realize that WOW people break rules and shit all the time. Stop reading the news arse-face and start listening to...THE WORLD! GAYA!

you know what I mean. sorry i forgot you're a drunk. w/e but you know what I mean mabye. hopefully. well in dont' really hope because I don't care with it being the internet and whatnot. but yeah, the world is funny eh. not everything goes to plan. not everything happened the way it's written.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:20 pm

Tough shit, just quit working at EA and find another job. OH SHIOTE UR A GEEK and can't do anything else than program bits of bytes of games.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:18 pm

Megatron wrote:Look jerkface, I can't be bothered about reading some other little pissant whiner's problems unless you can put them in easy-to-read quotes okay.

Why should I take the time to draw you a damned picture? Are you six years old? Guys, let's put everything in easy-to-read tidbits so that poor widdle Megatron can understand. He doesn't like to read stuff, you know. He doesn't like context. God, you're annoying.

Megatron wrote:And take your head out of your fucking ass and realize that WOW people break rules and shit all the time. Stop reading the news arse-face and start listening to...THE WORLD! GAYA!

In THE WORLD, "arse-face", companies have to follow regulations for their employees. They're not allowed to schedule employees for more than 40-or-so hours per week without overtime pay, and they're not allowed to make them work more than 8 hours per day, unless there is a written agreement between employer and employee and again, overtime pay is included. This is how they do it in Canada, but I'm assuming there is something similar for US employment.

My point is that I'm suprised nobody complained sooner, and that EA has been apparently doing this for a while.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:20 pm

That made really little sense. I'm stunned and in awe of your aliÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©nation.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:26 pm

How did that not make sense?

US Department of Labor

Teh Act wrote:Unless specifically exempted, employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than time and one-half their regular rates of pay.

The site also explains required health benefits, minimum wage requirements, etc.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:29 pm

EA isn't in the world?

The employees probably signed some shit wheh they got hired and now they're noticing how stupid they really are. Like I said earlier, TOUGH SHIT, you're not alone suffering.

This belongs to Feelings Online.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:30 pm

A really good film to watch is called 'swimming with sharks', it's sometimes sold as 'the buddy factor'. it stars kevin spacey, it's about a guy who works at a job and is treated like shit by his boss (kevin spacey), it gets so bad that the guy goes into his boss's house at night and starts torturing him, then... er, goes mad and shoots his girlfriend dead.

But it's really good, and his boss, whilst being tortured, says stuff like 'you can walk out of the job', and.... yeah.
very good film though.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:11 pm

They can kill, torture, suicide, just as long as they don't whine and cry on live journals, goth style, like attention whores.

Voluptuous Pachyderm · Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:17 am

Subhuman wrote:
US Department of Labor

Teh Act wrote:Unless specifically exempted, employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek at a rate not less than time and one-half their regular rates of pay.
.

For what it's worth I agree with you.

However I seem to remember that recently (last few years) you could clamp down on paying the 1.5x OT as reclassifying as "professional services" so you could work them without the pay due.

The other problem is that a large amount of people in the programming business, especially these days, would give an arm and a leg to work on computer games. This gives you the ability to pick up a new employee rather quickly and you gain the power to fire almost anyone and replace them on a moments notice.

This isn't that uncommon, illegal, probably, unethical, definately, unique, far from it.

I hear that EA has a pretty high turnover rate even for what it is. The current situation is that if an american company like EA wants to it generally can pull crap like this.

It's a shame, quite a few companies had a crunch time near deadlines, even having employees work 12 hours a day six days a week, however it used to be that you got a nice period of rest afterwards, a bonus and the pay that was coming to you. These days some just abuse their employees without the niceties at the end.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 1:34 am

Subhuman wrote:God, you're annoying.

yeah well at least I'm not a dickhead huh

Megatron wrote: companies have to follow regulations for their employees.

yeah well it happens anyway, get used to it. No pain no gain etc. if it bothered someone so much, why write about it in a journal that everyone can see huh, you want attention? you want MEDIA attention? you want MEDIA ATTENTION? well strike then apeshits? what? you dont want to? WELL QUIT YER BELLY-ACHING! Oh no you can't have 2 holidays and drive an SUV FUCK THIS IS THE FUCKING COLLAPSE OF THE FINANCIAL ECONOMY THINGY THING. whatever dudes, shit happens. suck it up and get another job.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 1:47 am

Megatron wrote:yeah well at least I'm not a dickhead huh

OMG PWNED!!!!111!!!!! Shut up.

Megatron wrote:yeah well it happens anyway, get used to it.

Never said it didn't. I said I was suprised that those employees put up with it for so long. I would have said goodbye at the first sign of EA's abuse. Of course, these people probably didn't want to just up and quit without having a backup plan, which is why your "OMG SHUT UP WHINY GEEKS GET ANOTHER JOB OMG" doesn't really hold water. It takes time to a) find another job, b) get an interview for said job and c) make the necessary preparations to leave your current job and set up at the new one.