Reconciliation Plan!?

"MasterSeedy;c-1986206" wrote:

OK but that's like saying "I've been in poverty my whole life and it's not fair that someone accidentally deposited 2 million dollars in my bank account and then took it away again shortly after"

No. It's like some employee of your big corporation putting up a notice saying, "Anyone who works on Christmas will get paid 100/hour holiday pay! Sign up here. Red shirt/green pants required."

Then a bunch of people sign up to work on Christmas, some of them even go out and spend money on a red shirt and green pants because they didn't have them before and the extra money they make was going to be worth a lot more than what they spent on a shirt and pants.

The people show up to work. There's a gatekeeper assigned to the door by someone in middle management to make sure they signed-up appropriately and they have their red shirt and green pants on.

Despite only letting in the people who are supposed to be let in, there's really nothing much to do, since it's Christmas, except for the emergency tech support staff, who all earn 40/hour on regular days and have to be there when the people in India or Israel or Japan have a problem on what, for them, is a work day. The clerical staff and the people who run errands for minimum wage, they don't have much to do at all and earn an easy $800 for a day's work when they would normally work most of two weeks to get that. They're earning 8x their hourly wage when the emergency tech staff - the ones the management really actually valued and wanted - are only getting 2.5x their hourly wage. But it's a little bit worse than that, because even with the emergency tech support staff, more people signed up than they really needed so extra money got payed out there too, not extra per person, but extra nonetheless.

Then, after the paychecks go out, payroll calls up and says, "**** is this? We can't give out this much money!" Then the managers who authorized the employee who put up the notice about holiday pay get together in a room and yell at each other about who forgot to check the wording of the notice and who forgot to make sure that only emergency tech support was allowed to work and who set up the gatekeeper at the door and who didn't give the gatekeeper the right instructions.

At that point, instead of the employees standing up for each other and saying,

"Look, we did what you asked and some of us even had to spend real money to meet your requirements, so just give us the money!"

what we actually get are a bunch of emergency tech support people saying,

"Obviously you shouldn't have done any work, despite reading the notice hanging on the wall of the "Events" section of the bulletin board, spending money, meeting requirements, passing the check that management put in place, and doing only what you were invited to do. Clearly, you should have your wages docked so that my pay isn't devalued since I don't get as much benefit from the holiday pay as you peons."

and then we get a bunch of clerical workers and errand runners saying,

"Well you're getting too much too! Why are you getting any extra benefit? They should dock your pay as well! It won't hurt you as much but you should still have your pay docked!"

This isn't someone getting $2M for doing nothing. This is the company making it easier to earn money than they meant it to be, having people actually show up and actually do the work, and then the company trying to retroactively reduce your pay because they really would have preferred to pay you less and really actually scheduled too many employees on Christmas when they really didn't need that many in the office.

Guess what? The company never gets the money back. That's the law.

And it's also a much better analogy than the $2m for doing no work story.

So why are we acting like the workers and insisting that everybody get their pay docked even though people really did show up and do the work? Even though some people actually spent resources to meet the requirements? Why can't we all agree that CG offered holiday pay to too many workers, but anyone who actually did the work gets paid b/c that's CG's mistake?

Unity in the face of CG's mistake is the only thing that's going to make a difference here. As long as we are attacking each other, CG has no incentive to actually make things right.

You're exactly right. The event promised the malak shards. For some it was shard shop currency so not worth much. To others it was worth much more. But they promised malak shards when the rewards for beating the event 1 time for the run of the event.

Since they canceled the event, they do need to give the malak shards to those tgat qualified for the event but couldn't play it. That is leveling the playing field and that is the only solution that is acceptable.

And for those that already had a 7 star malak. Too bad you soent the get to get him but that was your choice. I spent a lot of get too and had him 30/100. It's not like new ways of getting get characters cheaper haven't come before. Wampa being a reward for galactic bounties is a great example. Those that already have wampa farmed got less value. So what. They had him sooner when he was more dominant.

Those that 7 stared malak had use of hom longer. Getting anything sooner is aslways more expensive in this game. I think making shards a reward every time would be great but at a minimum, they need to pay out the reward they promised.