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

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From: john graesser
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:59
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"Zaghadka" <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> john graesser bolted into comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, wreathed in wicked,
white
> hot flames, and screamed...
>
> >
> >"Bill" <mrspamnobillo@nospam.bom> wrote in message
> >news:vE1od.297559$%k.36542@pd7tw2no...
> >> Just more reasons not to by Anything from EA
> >>
> >> http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/
> >>
> >> http://www.igda.org/qol/open_letter.php
> >
> >I'm sorry that they are treating you so badly, but since this is the USA
> >your partner is  free to quit and find another job that is more to your
> >liking.
>
> If it's so easy, you quit your job. Shouldn't affect you at all, right?
Did it
> ever occur to you that quitting (no unemployment benefits, BTW) is just as
bad
> a choice as staying? Ever hear the term "wage slave"? This man is not
"free."
> That goes double because he has a family.
>
> >I don't buy EA products since the generally put out crap (and now I
> >see why if all their projects are run like the one your partner is
working
> >on).
> >
> >Try boycotting their payroll dept by quitting and see how much you would
> >rather your partner work to death instead of both of you starving.
>
> That is truly despicable. Indeed worthy of Ebenezer Scrooge. Where do you
get
> off mocking anyone with a choice between watching her husband get slowly
worked
> to death or watching the both of them and her family starve to death. Do
you
> believe in GOD?

I took the path of less money, took a job paying 1/3 of what I had
previously because the first job was killing me. Now I am healthy and wise,
just not wealthy.

You would be surprised how much you can live without if you just cut the
strings and let it go.

I stand by my previous post, they can either live the life they chose
willingly, or they can just walk away.
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Subject: Re: EA treats it's employee's worse than it's customers!
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:59:33 -0600
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