Gameloft Pushing Staff into 120-hr Work Weeks?

[wild9]

[citation][nom]jcb82[/nom]I have a degree in Computer Science and I've considered the field as well, but hours like that are not for me. Honestly, having enough off-time is really important, connecting with other human beings is important. I heard the guys who program Gran Turismo have beds under their desks so that they can sleep in the office to meet deadlines. I'm sorry, that's the not the life I envision for myself. No matter what the compensation.[/citation]

In response to those companies..I like You Tube.

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

[citation][nom]sykozis[/nom]Yeah,...just look at how great UAW did for GM. They were directly responsible for GM filing bankruptcy. Due to Union demands. UAW is the reason there is no longer a Ford F-Series assembly plant in Norfolk, Va. Unions serve no purpose but to damage companies financially.[/citation]
Ans some copanies like to screw their employees... So the coin can be flipped either way

 

[K-zon]

For the fact of deadlines and efforts made, how anything was felt in the process should of determined its actual worth or work done afterwards. Obviously when you are working somewhere, you are kinda stuck to say, but in terms of like managers and those who run that dont quite say maybe work there. Should find these of quite un-interested choices of things to do.

Unions fail on this facts here. Otherwise would probably almost if not completely always work. Deadlines are suppose to be when work has been applied and finished. Not when work needs to be applied and finished. You dont need to work in a Union as well, or be Manager to know this either. Cause what do you think all that money paid goes for? To work in a Union( Getting paid more for the work) ? Or why they get paid more?

The bigger benefit at times, i think would be this, cause usually voided of many thoughts.

Otherwise to say, its just keeping with just that probably , a thought or interest of work applied. Which usually yeilds results, rather persectively or not.

 

[hoofhearted]

Are these guys even hourly or are they salaried? If they are hourly, then this has to be a waste of money. Why not hire more employees and work em less hours?

 

[Guest]

I and a team of 4 I was on did this for three years in the consulting sector. Multiple 31+ straight hour sessions at my desk in the office living off of Five-Hour energies and Diet Pepsi. Hard core modeling and analytics. The results: incredible total production but an incredible amount of errors and time spent fixing those errors from sheer exhaustion. But here is all that mattered to management - Total Production was higher even net of time spent on errors working at this crazy pace. I eventually cancelled my rental and lived in the office (in secret) for 8 months before I finally cracked, led a mutiny and forced senior management to fire my boss and sign an 'understanding of rights and responsibilities' contract with my team. It is now a year later and I still haven't recovered - I resigned and my last day is Friday.

 

[turrbo]

A friend of mine works in the Romanian division of Gameloft. From time to time he takes the luggage with him and sleeps at the office. And this is not the excuse for his wife to go out with the guys )

 

[Guest]

This is why we need socialism in New Zealand. None of this capitalist bullshit.

 

[Guest]

And guess what else ... If you change your phone number, Gameloft won't re-send you your games. If your phone breaks and you don't get the same phone, Gameloft won't re-send you your games. Even FREE apps can be re-downloaded in either of those conditions. But apps you PAID for? Gameloft says, "Thanks for the donation. Screw you."

Boycott Gameloft.

 

[DjEaZy]

... Gameloft Pushing Staff into 120-hr Work Weeks, But The Games Don't Get Any Better...

 

[bungaman57]

I know some people programming in Silicon Valley (specifically for subbed out Mac OS testing) and they get the same treatment. Screamed at if they refuse to work the hours, threatened with firing. A close friend of mine quit on her Dr.'s orders because of the musculo/skeletal problems it was creating for her. She may be permanently disabled: she's been told by her many physical therapists to work in another profession to keep from getting more permanent damage and alleviate PTSD symptoms.People had cots in their cubicles - they couldn't even spare the time to go home. A 53 year old programmer two cubicles away dropped dead of a heart attack in his chair.

Unions? They aren't perfect, but if anyone's got a better answer to stop this kind of modern day sweat shop slavery, put it out there. But this stuff is widespread now, and unconscionable.

 

[bungaman57]

I know some people programming in Silicon Valley (specifically for subbed out Mac OS testing) and they get the same treatment. Screamed at if they refuse to work the hours, threatened with firing. A close friend of mine quit on her Dr.'s orders because of the musculo/skeletal problems it was creating for her. She may be permanently disabled: she's been told by her many physical therapists to work in another profession to keep from getting more permanent damage and alleviate PTSD symptoms.People had cots in their cubicles - they couldn't even spare the time to go home. A 53 year old programmer two cubicles away dropped dead of a heart attack in his chair.

Unions? They aren't perfect, but if anyone's got a better answer to stop this kind of modern day sweat shop slavery, put it out there. But this stuff is widespread now, and unconscionable.

 

[g-thor]

Reasonable people can work things out reasonably.

The reason unions exist - unreasonable people. Sadly, eventually the unions become just as unreasonable, many times because the union gets so big that it is managed by people who only work for the union. They have to pick fights so their members think they are doing something for them.

The contract the programmers had specified that they could be asked to do reasonable overtime, but the requests were for unreasonable amounts of time. That's when you tell a supervisor, please send this request to me in an email, specifying how many hour you are asking for, over how many weeks. It's called a paper trail.

I had a job that told me I had to make so many sales contacts each day (an unrealistic amount) and if I couldn't do it in 7.5 hours (contracted time) then I would have to stay until I had completed the task. I asked them to put that in writing before I would agree - it was a drastic change to our original contract. They declined to do that, but dropped the demand. Why? It was an unreasonable demand that I could have forwarded to the government for investigation, and they knew it. There is a legal authority to whom they have to answer.

We worked it out. Had they declined to write the email and still demanded the extra free time, it still would have worked out - I would have had to walk. It seems that fast food chains are always looking for part-timers.

 

[nforce4max]

Yet people wonder why this world has gradually became a horrible place to live in. I am a little surprised that things have lasted as long as they have but can't go on for much longer. Everywhere one goes there is always someone trying to take advantage of another at that person's expense. In this world people kill over simple little pieces of paper with silly little pictures on them called money when it is literally worthless. As for this company well it is only modern slavery here :s I hope this company goes under soon.

 

[VideoGamer666]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]OMG! Man up! Where's ur balls! They are PAYING YOU TO WORK! $$$ And Im sure these guys aint hurting in the wallet ![/citation]
I would love to see you work 120 hours a week. That is like, 5 hours sleep every night. Dumbass.

 

[leakingpaint]

150hrs - really? so they're working 21 hours a day? lol yeah that's not going to work...

 

[12pak]

No one is "forced" to work 120 hour weeks. You got no one to blame but yourself if you ever work a 120 hour week. Granted, if you say no you may not have a job, but who cares? There are other jobs. Employers will continue to abuse and take advantage of workers till the majority simply refuses to bow. I have refused to work more than 50 hours before, fully expecting to be fired, and was going to make the sacrifice to prove a point. Turns out the bosses respected me a bit more for it and from that day forward, we got along much better. My motto-- "I work to live, not live to work".

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]12pak[/nom]No one is "forced" to work 120 hour weeks. You got no one to blame but yourself if you ever work a 120 hour week. Granted, if you say no you may not have a job, but who cares? There are other jobs. Employers will continue to abuse and take advantage of workers till the majority simply refuses to bow. I have refused to work more than 50 hours before, fully expecting to be fired, and was going to make the sacrifice to prove a point. Turns out the bosses respected me a bit more for it and from that day forward, we got along much better. My motto-- "I work to live, not live to work".[/citation]

I love idiots like you, you live in your own reality bubble that is completely separated from actual reality.

 

[youssef 2010]

Ok, in my case, I'm working 12hour shifts for 25+days with no leaves because my factory is in the maintenance period. But it's not as demanding as 17 hours of coding per day.

I would advise these people to resign and find other jobs. If there's a mass resignation, this company will have to change policies