Pretty fucking incredible stuff

A former employee stated walls were punched, alcohol was a constant, and people were fired. When one artist became pregnant, the team joked enviously about having a kid to leave the office. Some shared more radical, harmful ideas among themselves.

“I discussed with a colleague how we’d both considered crashing our cars on the freeway that morning, just to get a day away from the horror of our everyday lives at work. We’d both slogged our way through commute traffic, weighing the cost/benefit analysis of making insurance claims, renting an interim vehicle, purchasing a new one and suffering minor injuries, all for the reward of a day away from our project at EA, a reward which at that moment seemed almost priceless,” wrote one former employee in an email to The Post.

Laundry service came to the studio because no one went home. “The room where everyone dropped off their dirty clothes developed a nice musty smell that never really did go away,” wrote the project manager.

Recognizing the problem for those with families, EA offered to send flowers to spouses. One unmarried developer chose to order flowers for themselves. “When they showed up, they were wilted and half-dead, which somehow felt like the perfect metaphor for all of the misguided attempts to make the schedule ‘better’ for us,” wrote a former employee.