In this instance it’s definitely the prior correspondence and accusations of trying to deal with artists directly that are the story here, not the simple “A vs B” image comparison.

Better headline: “Alleged gang member kills pedestrian in street-racing crash”

The QA industry needs to unionize. Companies pull this crap all the time. Don’t let them abuse you because you want into the games industry. Part time contract work, no job security, crap pay and abusive schedules. They can do better.

Konami has basically been irrelevant since they launched MGS5 (their last AAA game) so there’s minimal risk with getting on their bad side. Activision, on the other hand, is still very relevant and Keighley doesn’t want to risk losing out on potential marketing deals with them.

“Industry shill stops short of criticizing his source of wealth.”

I’ll be real. I’ve never had a previous job dictate any new job I was interviewing for. Don’t get bullied by capitalism into working terrible slave wages for a cool title.

“...and I reminded him of some slights that were thrown my way that were never apologized for.”

Well, now we know who the asshole actually was

Wow, Schottenstein’s. I had a friend that worked for them doing layouts for the weekly newspaper print ad inserts, probably around the same time, 2004 or so. It was a job that probably paid about $25,000 annually. Then the design department had to make cutbacks, and he got laid off.

>some goofballs decided to game the market

Ah, the RadioShack method of going out of business it is then.

Yes, but that other awful place apparently pays more and they’re aware of that. So really, yes...go to the other awful place.

What was hilarious for me was back in college my friend had a job at the mall and he tried to get me and a few others a temp holiday job. But this store also had one of those automated multiple choice phone prompted questionnaires that was supposed to determine if someone was going to be a good employee or steal from…

Don’t blame them. At least since the 60s/70s corporate executives, millionaires, and politicians have convinced the public that their greed was good and following the late 80s/90s, they, as bottom-line workers, “didn’t deserve a living wage and that you must ‘work harder and harder’ to be rich like them”.

Quite the…

The thing is, what is described here doesn’t seem that odd (I don’t mean that in a good way per se). Take away the tone of redditors and the situations described doesn’t seem out of place at a wide number of jobs out there. Long hours, low pay, over-worked staff, inexperienced management, etc... That isn’t so much a…

Exactly.  There are TONS of unfilled jobs all across the country in any number of fields.  If you ever wanted to explore new avenues, now is the time to do so.

Gamestop isn’t Walmart or some other herculean titan that can dominate a market and force you to be a part of their overworked and underpaid workforce.

And yet you sat there for 5 years like a sucker.

This NEVER would have been allowed to happen at FuncoLand.

Nope. I will never get close to a police station if I can help it. I do all my in person transactions at the bank or in the middle of my uni’s student union.

imagine throwing your life away for a damn PS5.

“What are you in for?”
“Breaking and entering. You?”
“Ratchet and Clank”