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[TRENCHES] Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Funereal
Geth
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Getting Upstairs
AnonymousWhen I was in college I used to work in a big studio’s QA department during summer breaks. The building we were in was situated where QA lived on the 3rd floor and all development and management were on the 4th and 5th floors. As a result regular QA rarely ever met with or talked to the developers, and it felt very much like we were not part of the team.
This was the top shared concern among QA employees when the company was taking input on the designs for it’s new building. We must have made an impression because the next summer we were moved to a cheap used warehouse down the street while the Dev teams got a new building built specifically for them.
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QA was in a loft above the Bungie guys, but then due to complaints from the devs that we were a distraction, they rented a building a few blocks away and stuck us all in there.
The place QA used to be was replaced with beer and tacos.
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Tycho, care to take the lead singer position?
Were you at least invited over for beer and tacos?
But now he's talking shit about Tim McGraw?
It's on.
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No.
QA was specifically instructed not to have tacos.
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Make of that what you will.
@Warlock82 you can kill dudes with a cowbell. That's what my minstrel does.
This statement, though short, brought on a sudden horrific flashback.
One company I worked for had separate levels for devs/testers as well. We were initially allowed into various food/beer arrivals, until one day a dev said something along the lines of, "hey, QA isn't allowed up here." At which point, we were no longer allowed upstairs without specific consent. One of those exceptions was stocking the dev's with various snacks and stuff that arrived.
We did have a less stocked snack area in our floor. But then supposedly a tester was caught just filling his bag full of snacks at the end of the day to take home, so ours was never restocked afterward.
We were also not invited to the release party for the game we worked on at the time. Well, we were initially invited, but I think that was a mistake in that the contract testers were in the company's "all" mailing list. Our RSVPs did not go through, which we discovered a few days before. To the QA Lead/Manager's credit, they did get us in. But we were only allowed into the mass/general public floor. We weren't allowed upstairs with the rest of the company.
I work at a much better company now. Though the first year I was there, I asked the QA Manager if QA was allowed to tell the contract testers that QA was allowed to go/participate in every company event. He assured me each and every time, that QA is always invited and allowed to go for every/any event (barring say some major catastrophe that specifically required QA staff).
This is the kind of situation Insane Clown Posse exists for.
Same, and it has that effect on me too.
Except that it usually makes me want to kill them, and then myself.