The suit is being put together by former “temporary employee” Aaron Martinez and his legal team, alleging that Quality Assurance (QA, or testers) workers at Visual Concepts were, during his time there, not paid for all their hours worked. He also claims they weren’t given break periods for rest or meals, and at the time of termination hadn’t been paid all their wages owing.
Take-Two, for its part, denies the allegations.
Take 2 Interactive Is Getting Sued By QA Tester [moop2000 @ NeoGAF]
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 10:39 PMNever treat your QA staff like crap.
“Oh whoops, I guess we missed that showstopper bug because we were too tired from over work.”
Ghazarios
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 11:23 PM^ This.
Never treat people badly, there’s always something they can do to get back at you.
PuppyLicks
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 9:22 AMAlso the simple fact that happy workers work better and harder.
Mic
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 11:25 PMFor those who aren’t aware, Penny-arcade and PvP have been working on a new comic series about game testers, but more interestingly is they are also taking and publishing stories from people who test games for a living. It’s amazing how bad the job actually is, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this one’s true.
If anyone’s interested, search for The Trenches. Forget the comic, it’s the shocking stories that’ll keep me coming back.