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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nathal" data-source="post: 352012" data-attributes="member: 1809">Re: Re: BoycottThat is not true all of the time.  I now work for a company where that is not true.  It is a smaller company all things considered, but we have been around for nearly 100 years.  I've survived two rounds of layoffs after 9-11, but those that remained did so because they worked the hardest.  The salaries were not the issue; it was the work ethic in each case.  When the company ran into more trouble, they cut our salaries by 2%.  Why?  Because the president felt he'd rather cut off his own left hand than cut good staff that had been there for 30 years.  In fact, the president of the company his own salary by 6% and announced such.  In some cases (when people where layed off rather than fired) They gave their ex-employess 6 months of health insurance plus severance pay and a letter of reccomndation written by the president.Even layoffs can be done ethically.  I agree that is very uncommon in large companies.  I've often wondered what has caused this shift in attitude toward individual employees as assets?  What the heck happened in 50 years? That is not always true.  There was a huge difference between how employees were treated at all of my jobs.  It depends on current management and how involved and compassionate the corporate heads are.  When layoffs become neccessary then there are many ways to decide how to cut expenses, and if individual talent and ones personal work ethic is second to salary, then those good people are replaced with low-paid corporate monkeys...I expect there will be a drastic change in the quality of the work from that point on in any company.Well, what everybody says about the boycott sounds reasonable.  I admit my response was in anger for those talented guys that dedicated their lives to this game.  I agree that trouble was in the cards when WOTC was sold to Hasbro in the first place.If one wants to see further D&D product from Wizards then boycotting won't help to keep their company alive.  Of course, I doubt there stuff will be of any quality in the future.  And the point that Hasbro is not likely to sell the rights to the name of D&D, even while crushing the rest of that biz sounds like a reasonable prediction, unfortunately.So</blockquote>

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