Employees need to stand up to this. If managers are slave driving you, then go work somewhere else. Problem is, most IT departments are poorly run by idiots these days who treat employees like dogs by running unrealistic deadlines and code & run process-less environments with no team standards, team collaboration, and a work-life-balance.

I don’t care if we developers get paid “the big bucks”, there’s is a fine line between # of hours required to get the job done and SANITY that employers need to own up to and clean up their act.

Hahahahah. I wish that were true. Part of the reason people are bitching is because we’re being worked like dogs AND not getting compensated for it.

Either give us reasonable hours, or pay us for the time we work. That doesn’t seem like much to ask.

There’s tons of stories out there about how Disney treated their animators like slaves, and even about blacklisting tactics.

I mean, doesn’t it say something about the company when giant Disney executives leave and form Dreamworks because even they realised how bad the internal politics and mismanagement was?

As a result: Disney began to suck and it shows.

Eventually, EA will feel the burn of treating their employees poorly. It won’t be instantaneous, but it will happen.

Happy employees equal productive employees, I suppose.

As for being overworked, underpaid, etc… There’s always going to be plus and minuses to every job, but the point is not to just LEAVE the moment things get rough (it’s like saying you have to immediately move to Canada because you were unhappy with W’s re-election). You want to stay and fix the problem and give it the good ol’ try before/if you go. Relocation, while sounding simple enough, can uproot a lot of people’s lifestyles.

The problem isn’t people hating the actual tasks of their job–it’s the poor conditions they’re given to do it, plus undercompensating. I don’t know why there’s even arguments against this–employers, bottom line, need to compensate their employees for extra/hard work. Instead of complaining and say it’s an industry problem so they should just suck it up–no, it’s a WORK problem, period, and it needs to be fixed.

Companies need to get their priorities straight. Employees are their biggest commodity and best investment.

Take it from Google–apparently it’s like a palace there. Result? Happy employees churning out innovative products and long hours with little complaint. And Google is now a behemoth in tech world.

Or how about even Costco? A recent business article I read about them stated that the employees were one of the best paid in their type of industry. Costco has also recorded significant gains. Yes, I think there’s a connection.