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

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From: Gerry Quinn
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:39

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In article <rskqr09k41tjlvb07...@4ax.com>, 
dro...@hotmail.com says...
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:44:11 GMT, rgo...@telusplanet.net (David
> Johnston) wrote:
> 
> >Oh please.  They aren't "destroying people's lives" by hiring them.  
> 
> Hiring them?  No.  But that's far from what most of these corporations
> do in countries like China.  They quite literally chain people to
> workbenches in small windowless rooms and force them to work 12 hours
> per day.  Of course, the 'nice' companies merely keep the employees in
> perpetual debt via the good old-fashioned 'company store', thereby
> preventing them from ever quitting because if they do so, they
> immediately go to jail.  

And this applies to EA programmers, how?

- Gerry Quinn

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