I'm stunned at how EA appears to treat its employees like slaves (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/):
If I could get EA CEO Larry Probst on the phone, there are a few things I would ask him. "What's your salary?" would be merely a point of curiosity. The main thing I want to know is, Larry: you do realize what you're doing to your people, right? And you do realize that they ARE people, with physical limits, emotional lives, and families, right? Voices and talents and senses of humor and all that? That when you keep our husbands and wives and children in the office for ninety hours a week, sending them home exhausted and numb and frustrated with their lives, it's not just them you're hurting, but everyone around them, everyone who loves them? When you make your profit calculations and your cost analyses, you know that a great measure of that cost is being paid in raw human dignity, right?
While I can't prove this is true, it certainly rings true. Shame on Larry Probost, Shame on EA. I certainly won't be buying your games anytime soon.
Found via Larry O'Brien
Update: Just in case you want more reading on this try http://snarkyspot.blogspot.com/2004/11/ea-spouse-speaks-out-against-game_07.html, finally the ubiquitous slashdot has picked up this story. Good luck to everyone the employees at EA.