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Article #336136Re: EA treats it's employee's worse than it's customers!
From: john graesser
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:59
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:59
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"Zaghadka" <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:qkb3q09dg8lt61d80hfku3891e01ivb6i7@4ax.com... > 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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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-10!sn-xit-12!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "john graesser" <grae...@tca.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.medal-of-honor.allied-assault,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Subject: Re: EA treats it's employee's worse than it's customers! Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:59:33 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <10q7tupr96cvc24@corp.supernews.com> References: <vE1od.297559$%k.36542@pd7tw2no> <10q225vk1lvhm58@corp.supernews.com> <qkb3q09dg8lt61d80hfku3891e01ivb6i7@4ax.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: ab...@supernews.com Lines: 55 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit