Besties Battle Bracket: Worst employer
Added 2025-06-04 17:19:44 +0000 UTC
Editor's note: Sorry for the delay! I scheduled the episode for the usual time, but it didn't publish. Still, I'm going to assume this was somehow human error, so again, my apologies! ~Plante
In this Besties Battle Bracket, we dig into the top listener-voted topic: the worst in-game company to work for. Against five other options, the bracket won a staggering 33% of the vote!
For the comments: Which video game character would you like to be your boss?
Rubric:
Which day-to-day would be worse
Which has worse benefits
Which would be worse on your resume
Contenders:
Black Mesa (Half-Life)
Aperture Science (Portal)
Abstergo (Assassin's Creed)
Rader Publishing (Split Fiction)
Ultor (Saints Row and Red Faction)
Ryan Industries (BioShock)
Umbrella (Resident Evil)
Phenotrans Corporation (Dead Rising)
Shinra Electric Power Company (FF7)
Vault-Tec (Fallout)
Ammunation (GTA)
Joja (Stardew Valley)
Wario Ware, Inc. (Wario Ware)
Union Aerospace Corporation (Doom)
Faro Automated Solutions (Horizon Zero Dawn)
Eggman Industry (Sonic)
Comments
You could get a couple of brackets of this genre. Cyberpunk alone has enough bad shit to make its own bracket.
Paul Choudoir
2025-06-27 16:53:29 +0000 UTCOh, I want to hear that case! I literally have no idea what you might want to say. But Iβm curious!
Nat J
2025-06-08 04:49:21 +0000 UTCJust started playing halflife for the first time. Just pushed that rock an hour ago.
Dan Reeser
2025-06-07 16:57:07 +0000 UTCI think you could make a strong case for Bowser Oil even though the only evidence of it is advertisement banners in Mario Kart
Bryduck
2025-06-07 02:26:07 +0000 UTC
