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Re: EA treats it's employee's worse than it's customers!

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From: Grackle
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:39
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<erimess> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:18:21 -0500, "Grackle" <nos...@lalaland.com>
> wrote:
>
> And no, I'm not condoning the behavior of any company... I've worked
> for mostly crap companies my whole life.  It's just that, unlike
> apparently 3/4th of this world, I recognize that employees do *not*
> have *more* rights than the people they work for.  You're allowed to
> quit with no excuse, but they can't let you go with no excuse?  That
> means you think you have *more* rights than they do, and seem to
> forget, it goes both ways.
>

Quiting and being fired have two very different effects on both sides. 
Getting fired, especially with dependants to support, can disrupt someone's 
entire life, while quitting can at worst disrupt a company's profits 
(usually not).  The two are not equivalent. 
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