<story><title>Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-riot-games-walkout-protest-forced-arbitration-20190506-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stephenr</author><text>I spent a week or so on site as a contractor (well technically a contractor for a company with a contract).. I certainly didn&amp;#x27;t leave thinking &amp;quot;hey these guys have it great&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I still keep thinking about their company policy: employees were &lt;i&gt;expected&lt;/i&gt; to play their game every day. Can you imagine if McDonalds said they expected staff to eat at least one meal every day in-store?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legohead</author><text>Reminds me of when I worked at a smaller telecom company who had a crazy VP.  He would approach random employees, ask them who their long distance carrier was, and if it wasn&amp;#x27;t the company, he&amp;#x27;d fire them on the spot.  &amp;quot;Why are you working for us if you don&amp;#x27;t believe in us?&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-riot-games-walkout-protest-forced-arbitration-20190506-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stephenr</author><text>I spent a week or so on site as a contractor (well technically a contractor for a company with a contract).. I certainly didn&amp;#x27;t leave thinking &amp;quot;hey these guys have it great&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I still keep thinking about their company policy: employees were &lt;i&gt;expected&lt;/i&gt; to play their game every day. Can you imagine if McDonalds said they expected staff to eat at least one meal every day in-store?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevenwoo</author><text>I have worked at a McDonald&amp;#x27;s and at least when I worked there, workers got something like $5 credit per eight hour shift back in the 1980&amp;#x27;s. Most people used it to eat a meal but sometimes we would trade credit with KFC or Pizza Hut workers for variety.&lt;p&gt;I have also worked in games on smaller teams and considered it a responsibility to play the game to make sure that everything I could influence worked well (or I changed it so that it did) or that I could evaluate other parts of the game versus user expectation&amp;#x2F;current state of the art. Maybe things are different on larger teams&amp;#x2F;projects.</text></comment>