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15547: Re: [MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?
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From: Erik Jarvi <ejarvi@megsinet.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:43:37 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:11:19PM -0400, Willowreed@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/6/2000 8:00:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ananda@winterreach.com writes:
>
> >
> > There's only two differences between the way GEnie did it and the way AOL
> > did it: AOL is flat-rate, and AOL relied on uncompensated volunteers for
> > many of the positions that received royalties on GEnie. (GEnie*Basic did
> > provide free message boards, but the big time-wasters like chat and games
> > were still $6/hr.) Of course, AOL has gotten rid of most of their
> > volunteers by now.
>
> AOL is flat rate NOW, but back in 94 when I started it was $3.85 an hour with
> 15 free hours. OH accounts like some of us had were worth everything in the
> world to have. Most of us had bills up in the high hundreds every month
> before we got chosen for the program. You didn't hear us complain about
> volunteering, i kid you not. At that point we worked three three hour shifts
> a week. 9 hours plus 'paperwork.'
>
> NOW of course its flat-rate. which changes things a little.
Hmm, I was under the impression that these were the people suing.
(the ones that started back in the beginning with the $/hr and stayed as
volunteers until recently (2-3 years ago))
I was also under the impression that if you quit you lost all your (aol)
accounts.
These 2 reasons are why I support the plaintiffs. If my impressions are
wrong, then I think I'll have to switch sides. :)
Erik
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