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I can tell you that EA (Electronic Arts) won't hire you without this clause. Their line was "if you work for us, you shouldn't really have time for side project

I can tell you that EA (Electronic Arts) won't hire you without this clause. Their line was "if you work for us, you shouldn't really have time for side projects." I kid you not.

alextingle 13y ago
One more to add to the long list of reasons not to work at EA.
MartinCron 13y ago
Yuck. This is the sort of thing that is nudging me from "I never ever want to work for EA" to "I no longer want to buy things from EA"
- knappe 13y ago
  This is what pushed me over the edge. http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/ http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/
  - BlackDeath3 13y ago
    To be fair, the whole EA Spouse thing happened quite a while ago.
    - knappe 13y ago
      And I haven't purchased an EA product since.
      - BlackDeath3 13y ago
        And that's fine and dandy, but chances are that the company composition is largely different today than it was when EA Spouse occurred. I understand that there is more to a company than a collective of individuals, but it might be a little misleading to still make EA-related decisions today based on the EA Spouse incident.
        knappe 13y ago
        No, I'd say their track record is spot on. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-worst-company-in-america-again/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-w...
        BlackDeath3 13y ago
        Well, to be fair, given people like you, that's really no surprise. That's not to save that they necessarily do not deserve it.
        knappe 13y ago
        "Well, to be fair, given people like you, that's really no surprise." A personal attack? Can we save the ad hominems for somewhere else? I fail to see how being an informed consumer is a problem. I care how/where my dollars are spent.
        huhtenberg 13y ago
        It looks like a personal attack, but it's not. If you read the post you linked to, it quite reasonably says that EA is not the worst employer to work for. It's just that the Internet crowd thinks that it is. And what GP said was that this crowd comprises of people like yourself, which again is reasonable observation, not an attack.
        BlackDeath3 13y ago
        Right. My point is that, given that so many people love to hate EA (for better or worse, and regardless of whether their reasons make sense or not), it's really no surprise that EA is continually "awarded" such "honors". Maybe you, knappe, have other (better) reasons to hate EA than those that relate to some ten-year-old drama that (probably) didn't personally affect you. Maybe you don't. But there is an Internet full of people who will probably never stop hating EA, no matter what.
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ww520 13y ago
That's awful. Are they paying 24 hour work day then?
vidarh 13y ago
I'd love for them to try this in a EU country. (EDIT: Except the UK, which, in its attempt to become the 51st state, have an exemption from substantial parts of the relevant regulation) "So you intend to violate the Working Time Directive? Because if you don't, I will have lots of spare time outside of my contracted hours". Of course if they'd given me that line, I'd told them that if so they'd need to at least triple whatever offer I might have previously considered.
- alextingle 13y ago
  You can always opt back in to the Working Time Directive. You can do it at any time, and the employer is not permitted to discriminate against you for your choice.

I can tell you that EA (Electronic Arts) won't hire you without this clause. Their line was "if you work for us, you shouldn't really have time for side projects." I kid you not.

alextingle 13y ago

One more to add to the long list of reasons not to work at EA.

MartinCron 13y ago

Yuck. This is the sort of thing that is nudging me from "I never ever want to work for EA" to "I no longer want to buy things from EA"

knappe 13y ago
This is what pushed me over the edge. http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/ http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/
- BlackDeath3 13y ago
  To be fair, the whole EA Spouse thing happened quite a while ago.
  - knappe 13y ago
    And I haven't purchased an EA product since.
    - BlackDeath3 13y ago
      And that's fine and dandy, but chances are that the company composition is largely different today than it was when EA Spouse occurred. I understand that there is more to a company than a collective of individuals, but it might be a little misleading to still make EA-related decisions today based on the EA Spouse incident.
      - knappe 13y ago
        No, I'd say their track record is spot on. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-worst-company-in-america-again/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-w...
        BlackDeath3 13y ago
        Well, to be fair, given people like you, that's really no surprise. That's not to save that they necessarily do not deserve it.
        knappe 13y ago
        "Well, to be fair, given people like you, that's really no surprise." A personal attack? Can we save the ad hominems for somewhere else? I fail to see how being an informed consumer is a problem. I care how/where my dollars are spent.
        huhtenberg 13y ago
        It looks like a personal attack, but it's not. If you read the post you linked to, it quite reasonably says that EA is not the worst employer to work for. It's just that the Internet crowd thinks that it is. And what GP said was that this crowd comprises of people like yourself, which again is reasonable observation, not an attack.
        BlackDeath3 13y ago
        Right. My point is that, given that so many people love to hate EA (for better or worse, and regardless of whether their reasons make sense or not), it's really no surprise that EA is continually "awarded" such "honors". Maybe you, knappe, have other (better) reasons to hate EA than those that relate to some ten-year-old drama that (probably) didn't personally affect you. Maybe you don't. But there is an Internet full of people who will probably never stop hating EA, no matter what.
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ww520 13y ago

That's awful. Are they paying 24 hour work day then?

vidarh 13y ago

I'd love for them to try this in a EU country. (EDIT: Except the UK, which, in its attempt to become the 51st state, have an exemption from substantial parts of the relevant regulation) "So you intend to violate the Working Time Directive? Because if you don't, I will have lots of spare time outside of my contracted hours". Of course if they'd given me that line, I'd told them that if so they'd need to at least triple whatever offer I might have previously considered.

alextingle 13y ago
You can always opt back in to the Working Time Directive. You can do it at any time, and the employer is not permitted to discriminate against you for your choice.