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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.
      • wpietri 13y ago
        A tsunami is composed of entirely different molecules of water as it travels, but it generally retains its nature and force. If you want to stand on shore and say, "Hey, let's not assume that it's still the same when it gets here," I guess that's your prerogative, but I'll be watching from the hills.
        • BlackDeath3 13y ago
          Water molecules don't tend to have their own unique and distinct set of beliefs and philosophies regarding a near-infinite range of ideas, a structured hierarchy allowing for an uneven distribution over power amongst themselves, nor the ability to actuate their will upon the world around them. This isn't to say that enormous, profit-hungry companies will never tend to act like tsunamis, but I don't know that your comparison is generally valid.
          • wpietri 13y ago
            Ever watch The Wire? The whole point of it, at least in my eyes, is that often, the villain is the system. It is perfectly possible to see a company change every person in it and still have exactly the same behaviors, especially the pathological ones. I understand that from the employee's perspective, managers and execs seem to have near-infinite power. But from the perspective of any one of those people, they are vastly outnumbered; trying to change organizational culture is at best incredibly difficult. Waves tend to hold their shapes. Culture is a wave through individual humans. Or, perhaps more accurately, a standing wave through which humans pass.