Good for you! I am so impressed by the fact that you have a wife and two children! And you have even been married for eight years! OMG!!!
I didn't ask for your sarcasm about my family. You can straight shut the fuck up if you feel the need to disrespect my family. Seriously, only the lowest of scum feels the need to talk shit on someone else's family.
Quoting myself here: "t can be faster than you think to get into situations you never imagined yourself in". If you thought I meant that you should be more compassionate towards Crytec's management you lack some reading comprehension.
No, the obvious facts are A: you lack tact due to the aforementioned shutting-the-fuck-up you need to do about my family, which points to B: a lack communication skill on your part. Maybe English isn't your first language, fine so be it. You left out a large portion of your own post, part of which asked me to have compassion. I have a limited supply of compassion for companies who make promises to employees and fail to keep them. I have family who have been through this situation with Sun Microsystems back in the .COM bubble burst in the early 2000's here in the states. My family member already knew they were spiraling the toilet bowl, and they left when the second paycheck was missed (four weeks of total work.) The money they were owed was never paid, lesson learned.
I also have limited compassion for employees who elect, on a gamble, to work for free for extended duration based on nothing but promises from a company who has continually demonstrated problems generating revenue.
Your casino analogy is idiotic.
Casino is a gamble, at least they're guaranteed to pay if YOU win. Crytek employees were less lucky, apparently.
The people who lied to you are the ones who did something wrong.
Not when they lie to me for months upon months, continually missing contractually obligated payment schedules. If I keep working after months of missed payment deadlines, a substantial part of the blame falls upon ME for not recognizing the failure.
Alternate example: If I stop paying the general contractor who is building my back patio, according to our agreed-upon payment schedule formulated during the initiation of a statement of work,
he will stop working. If I turn into an epic douche and never start payments again, it's true that perhaps he will be out a few grand at most. But this is a shitty example, given how pay for full time employees works. I'm not sure how England does it, but here in the States it's either salary or hourly wages paid in weekly or biweekly increments.
If my employer were to miss one weeks' pay, or perhaps two weeks, maybe it's a "hang on and see." If they miss six months of pay? I've somehow directly ignored either 26 or 13 paystubs, depending on paycycle. It stopped being their fault a long time ago...
