{"id":13760,"date":"2011-08-31T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"disgruntled-ex-qa-tester-sues-take-two-over-working-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13760-disgruntled-ex-qa-tester-sues-take-two-over-working-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Disgruntled ex-QA tester sues Take-Two over working conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;d ever thought to yourself that, &ldquo;Yes! I&rsquo;m going to be a game tester because it means I get paid to play games all day, omg!&rdquo;, perhaps you should think again, and maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/5318-Reality-check-being-game-tester-sucks.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Being a game tester sucks\">read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t believe me? Believe Aaron Martinez, an ex-QA tester for Take-Two Interactive, who&rsquo;s now pushing a class action lawsuit against his former employer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the filing (dug up over on that hub of industry scandal-mongering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?p=30507695\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NeoGAF\">NeoGAF<\/a>), Martinez alleges that the company didn&rsquo;t allow testers to take &ldquo;required off duty meal and rest breaks&rdquo;, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Take-Two has denied the allegations, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17132-Ex-QA-tester-sues-Take-Two-over-working-conditions\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Disgruntled ex-QA tester sues Take-Two over working conditions\"><strong>Disgruntled ex-QA tester sues Take-Two over working conditions<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why game testing sucks, kids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}