Once again, it's time to make room for people with more seniority and do what they tell us!

In an industry known for its brutal crunch times, you've really got to do something special to be singled out for scorn. Team Bondi recently came under fire for practices that allegedly went above and beyond the usually cruelties -- including accusations of 100-hour work weeks, aggressive management, and uncredited work -- while completing L.A. Noire. Luckily, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter leapt to their defense, claiming it's all in the game, yo.

He also shrugged off the idea of programmers organizing. “Sweatshops should have unions," said Pachter, "but games studios, which tend to pay people a lot of money, shouldn’t.” So are code monkeys made to be trampled, or should they fight the powers that be?

"I'm-a union man my whol' life! Hey! Michael a-Patcher! I'm-a gonna check for dirt unda you fingernails right-a before I pulla them out with a-pliers, you white-a collar goon!"

- Mario, Super Mario Galaxy

"Unions? Those're the guys who take my money and give it to politicians, right? Pass."

- Faith, Mirror's Edge

"Control! My squad fought the entire Locust war! Call the shop steward and tell him we're taking a god-damn 60-minute lunch break, and I don't give a s*** what management says about it! Delta out."

- Marcus Fenix, Gears of War 3

"I love union! They give me bulk discount on bullet and all the quick-dry cement I can carry!"

- The Heavy, Team Fortress 2

"Don't ask me. I'm an independent contractor. You don't even want to know how many space pirate bounties it takes to pay for individual health insurance."

- Samus Aran, Metroid: Other M

"Oh, I get it. We make enough money to blow thousands on barely legal Guatemalan hookers, so it's okay to treat us like barely legal Guatemalan hookers. Spoken like a corporate whore."

- Iaasc Clarke, Dead Space 2

"A grand idea! I'll start a union and collect dues. Once we pay for the union office, furniture, letterhead, a modest staff, my salary, pencils, a snack bucket of fish, and then decorate and re-decorate everything, I'll raise the dues and get to work. Solidarity! Ho ho!"

- Tom Nook, Animal Crossing

"Let them start a union. I enjoy union-busting. With genocide. Blame management (posthumously) for failing to keep their menials in line."

- SHODAN, System Shock

"I've got a guild they can join...it's like a union, but you steal the dues, and going on strike actually involves striking things."

- Sly Cooper, The Sly Collection

"They need something, but a programmers union is a bad idea. They'd all sign on in the dead of night, rewrite the charter into a new language, change tabs into spaces, break half the code, and forget to comment anything."

- Pac-Man, Pac-Man