Want to be a professional game tester?

[DakAttack]

Re: Want to be a professional game tester?

"work 12 hours every day (for 7 days a week, for 8 months straight ... standard pay is $10 an hour." is much worse.

Except this isn't accurate. Nobody works twelve hours a day every day. Occasionally, you may need to pull a double-shift to get something done by a deadline, but that's rare. Nobody works seven days a week, either, unless they're willing to put in the extra time where needed. According to your link, ten dollars an hour is more than even a manager at McDonald's makes. Plus, Bethsoft also provides meals for those working double-shifts or overtime. Id never had a job where they provided free hamburgers from Five Guys before then.

Stop making it sound worse than it actually is. Not everybody has a job that's as bad as yours.

[Spazz]

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MOST companies you QA for provide you with meals for when you work late. While working on Rock Band, my company provided me with Breakfast and Dinner almost every day. They also provided beverages all day every day.

I DID work 12 hours a day everyday for a very long time. This is not saying every company does it, but you have to be willing to do it.

And yes, some people work at McDonalds. Someone has to. If you do, that's your choice. Its nothing against you for having that job, it pays the bills. You wanna get offended because some people don't want to have your job -- suit yourself.

I love my job. And yes... I can say its better than flipping burgers all day.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Mhurron, you're looking at monetary gain vs. the mental illness that serving fast food customers generats.

The only relief you will ever know is that one senior citizen that stops by in the morning for a simple cup of coffee. The rest of the day, its people that think ice and liquid displacement are a conspiracy against beverage enjoyment and people that go apeshit if there happens to be a pickle on the burger. Even if they didn't tell you they don't want pickles.

You're supposed to read minds for what they pay you.

The only thing that working at McDonalds was ever better than, for me, was working at Dell.

[TheGrandMom]

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Mhurron, you're looking at monetary gain vs. the mental illness that serving fast food customers generats.

I think its mandatory to be mentally ill to work in the fast food industry.


(No offense to anyone, just joking. It's a crap job and I used to do it too.)

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Want to be a professional game tester?

Well I know a few who have managed to keep pretty sane still working in fast food, but you come in contact with more mentally ill people there than anywhere else. I still feel sympathy for the people working there and the level of stress they have to deal with day-to-day. So much that I just order anything as it comes and if they get it slightly wrong I make no big fuss about it.

I mean if I ask for a steak chalupa at Taco bell and I get a grilled chicken chalupa, it still costs the same. And its chicken, which I don't have any complaints about. I'll just take the chicken and go on my way, its not worth bugging people to fix that sort of thing to me.

Unless you're some crazy carnivore that hates grilled chicken.

[TheGrandMom]

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I still remember when I was 16 and working at Burger King. This guy ordered his burger without onions and it was an afterthought. He had already paid and was moving to the side when he said "OH YA! No onions on that." So I go back and tell them I need one with no onions. Well he gets it and it had a piece of onion on it, not a lot, just one tiny piece. He was screaming at me "I said NO ONIONS! Not ONE SINGLE ONION GOD DAMN IT! I'm supposed to get it MY WAY you bitch!" while shoving the open burger in my face. When I moved away he followed and actually threw the burger and hit me in the face with it. To top it off, I had to go back and watch them make him one to make sure it had no onions.

Or the time a guy threw hot peas and carrots in my face because they cost too much. Seriously? You went to the station that gave out veges and saw the prices right on the glass in front of them and then walked all the way up to the register and stood in line until you got to the cashier (me) to go into a rant and throw them in my face.....SERIOUSLY?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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To get this back on track:

[Durahansolo]

Re: Want to be a professional game tester?

When I moved away he followed and actually threw the burger and hit me in the face with it.

Damn, now that is rude as hell. You can get assault charges for doing that now can't you? I think I remember some people going to jail for throwing things back through the drive-thru window.

I know for sure my mom snapped on the girl at McDonalds because they had ran out of Apple Pies. When she pulled up to the drive through she asked if they had any ready and the girl told her that they did. Of course when she got to the window whoever was there told her that they didn't have any at all and that it'd be a 20 minute wait.

I snapped one day when KFC had no chicken... I apologized and told the guy it wasn't his fault, I had really wanted quiznos but our local quiznos was shutdown and I didn't even know about it. Lights were on inside, but when I got to the door there was a note that said it was closed by the Health Department.

[Ziero]

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I mean if I ask for a steak chalupa at Taco bell and I get a grilled chicken chalupa, it still costs the same. And its chicken, which I don't have any complaints about. I'll just take the chicken and go on my way, its not worth bugging people to fix that sort of thing to me.

Unless you're some crazy carnivore that hates grilled chicken.

I dunno, this here seems like a perfect example of something you're able to complain about. I ordered one thing and got something completely different, that's a screw up on your part. Of course that's still not an excuse to fly off the handle like some ignorant twat, but it's still a perfectly valid complaint.

[Durahansolo]

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mean if I ask for a steak chalupa at Taco bell and I get a grilled chicken chalupa, it still costs the same. And its chicken, which I don't have any complaints about. I'll just take the chicken and go on my way, its not worth bugging people to fix that sort of thing to me.

Maybe you should've just asked for chicken instead?

IMO if my taste buds are set for one thing and for some reason I get served something totally different or have to make a rash change then I don't really want it. For example: Pizza Hut has been advertising pizzas for $10 with whatever toppings you want on them...The day I called to order one they were out of sausage and bacon. After that I didn't even really want the pizza I ordered and it didn't even taste good to me either. Not really the same thing, but meh.

[Feba]

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I DID work 12 hours a day everyday for a very long time.

The REAL question is whether or not you take a ten to fifteen minute break every hour, and sit in a well lit room at a good distance from the television.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Want to be a professional game tester?

I dunno, this here seems like a perfect example of something you're able to complain about. I ordered one thing and got something completely different, that's a screw up on your part. Of course that's still not an excuse to fly off the handle like some ignorant twat, but it's still a perfectly valid complaint.

Able to complain about, yes, but worth complaining about?

Not really. I like chicken. I like steak. Either works for me.

If they forgot my nachos or something, I'd just walk in and politely show my receipt and ask. If I got home and never checked - my fault. They almost forgot my 5-Layer burrito last time, but I just looked in the bag quickly and looked back and the drive-thru attendant knew what was missing, no need to shame her or even say anything.

[Spazz]

Re: Want to be a professional game tester?

The REAL question is whether or not you take a ten to fifteen minute break every hour, and sit in a well lit room at a good distance from the television.

No... I took a ten minute break every 2-3 hours. If you get up every hour, you get in trouble. The room is not always well lit and you are sitting at a desk with the TV on it. You are about 3-4 feet from the TV at the most.

If you have any more intelligent questions, please feel free to attempt to make some kind point. Otherwise, just save everyone a lot of headaches and SSSSSHHHHHH!!!!

[Taskmage]

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I did work 12 hours every day for 7 days a week during crunch time as a tester. idk about the 8 months straight part, but I can say at least four.

[Pwnagraphic]

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I did work 12 hours every day for 7 days a week during crunch time as a tester. idk about the 8 months straight part, but I can say at least four.

I have many friends in the gaming industry.. and it isn't all fun like one would think. My friends work so hard and so much on everything they do.. from sound to simple testing. It is a very stressful business. I am speaking just on what I see from them though.. I guess not everyone has the same experiences.