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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 2763258" data-attributes="member: 7394">It is, and one of the worst things about this is that John is straight up, one of the nicest people you will ever meet. When I was a lowly CS grunt, there were times when someone would write us in desperation, looking for an obscure map out of a first or second edition product, and I decided I would try to be helpful and hunt it down for them. Normally that wasn't a major problem, I would just go to the library, make a photocopy, and send it out. Well at one point they decided to do some housecleaning in the library, and while they did keep at least one copy of everything, they boxed it all up, so it was completely inaccessible for months. Like I said, there were some customers where I understood their plight, they were being very polite, and I wanted to help, so I went to John (because I think he was in charge of the library), and asked if there was anything he could do for me. On several occasions he brought in his personal copies from home, and every time he had them for me the next day. He's also always willing to take some time to talk shop, on one occasion giving me ammo to use against someone who went on a tirade about how Eberron elves were supposedly a direct ripoff of Tolkien elves. I feel really sorry for those poor people who keep getting let go, crawl back in, get secure, only to get dumped again.There's been a few people who simply decided that it was better to leave what was otherwise a very cool place to work rather than live in constant fear of losing their livelihood. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if there were a number of other companies in the industry, but really there aren't that many with full time staff positions. It's not the easiest industry to work in, and for WotC this is made much worse by the parent company.</blockquote>

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