{"id":87613790,"date":"2004-11-24T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613790"},"modified":"2004-11-24T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T05:56:16","slug":"thats-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613790","title":{"rendered":"That’s it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I understand that EA is wanting to be pretty tight-lipped about what’s going on with EA_Spouse and the Class Action Suit in LA, but this just seems kinda empty in response to Kirschenbaum’s suit for unpaid overtime:<\/p>\n

EA issued a statement in response to Kirschenbaum’s lawsuit, which was filed in San Mateo Superior Court. “We offer competitive salaries, bonuses, stock options, health care and a wide variety of other benefits and work environments that are second to none in our industry,” the company said. “EA remains committed to our customers and our employees and will continue to do all we can to ensure EA is a great place to work.’<\/a>‘<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other portions of the piece from SiliconValley (click the quote above to link) seems to be on the “but they’re paid well” side of this issue.<\/p>\n

I’m still not entirely sure where I stand. As I’ve said before, BC employees can’t have overtime because we’re high-tech workers. Essentially, in BC, if you’re a high tech worker, the assumption is that you make enough money to cover your overtime. When that’s the case, you end up making less and less per hour. I’d do the math myself, but it’s time to go to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I understand that EA is wanting to be pretty tight-lipped about what’s going on with EA_Spouse and the Class Action Suit in LA, but this just seems kinda empty in response to Kirschenbaum’s suit for unpaid overtime: EA issued a statement in response to Kirschenbaum’s lawsuit, which was filed in San Mateo Superior Court. “We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}