[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Curses upon the government then.
Perhaps I'm specializing in making 'off topic' comments, but just
imagine if a company (not WotC, ANY company) could use workers of any
type under the guise of 'volunteers' - an excellent supply of low wage
and no guarantees people that are easy to fire and can't complain
because they have no rights and no better alternatives. If you think
this is going too far, just imagine about the working conditions in the
sweatshops of the US (yes, you have a lot of them, not just Mexico or
Latin America) or southern Italy (where a month's wage is around 500
dollars, you work for ten-twelve hours a day and all the workers are,
probably, 'volunteers' too).
This said, I DO think WotC CAN use volunteers to lend an hand: what are
playtesters, after all? Surely, they are not WotC employees (I mean,
some of them are surely employees, but being a playtester is not
automatically being an employee), they don't receive a salary for their
expertise, but their contribution to the game is unquestionable. This is
not to say thet they SHOULD use ouside help in all the occasions - some
products or projects might rightly deserve special care to avoid leaks
harmful to the products or to the company. But I stay convincd that WotC
can use volunteers on any projects and the choice to do it (or not)
rests squarely on their shoulders, not on labor laws and regulations .
Just my two cents.
Ciro (from 'We all love the government' Europe 8-])
PS: before being pinpointed as 'anti American', I'd like to point out
that I like the US (not everything, MacDonalds and CNN for example...)
and I have a Stars and Stripes hanging in the game room of my store -
along the Italian and European flags of course!
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