If you’d ever thought to yourself that, “Yes! I’m going to be a game tester because it means I get paid to play games all day, omg!”, perhaps you should think again, and maybe read this.
Don’t believe me? Believe Aaron Martinez, an ex-QA tester for Take-Two Interactive, who’s now pushing a class action lawsuit against his former employer.
According to the filing (dug up over on that hub of industry scandal-mongering, NeoGAF), Martinez alleges that the company didn’t allow testers to take “required off duty meal and rest breaks”, and that employees were not paid in full on termination. Which does also kind of sound like a lawsuit filed because somebody was pissed about losing their job, but whatever.
Take-Two has denied the allegations, obviously.
I’ll just take this opportunity to remind everybody that game testing is a job like any other job, except so much worse. Unless spending two weeks running into walls then writing a report about it sounds like a career to you, in which case, you might want to consider working for the government instead.
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