wildcarddow

These people lost their jobs while the idiots higher up who made the poor decisions that led to THQ's current crisis get to keep theirs, what a great system.

And to the people saying it's better in the long run, that's just cold.

@Kidavenger: You make a fair point, but Irish law means they are owed something and if they fight (and hold onto the stock) we can hope they'll pay. It's sick, my Dad (a plumber) had to let one of his staff go and he paid the redundancy, so I don't see why a company like GAME should get away with not doing it.

Also where are they supposed to get jobs, a new cinema in Tallaght Ireland, located in the same building as one of the GAME stores affected had over 1000 applications. The problem these people face is being suddenly unemployed with no help at all from their ex employer, whether they had a month to prepare or not isn't really going to help now is it?

@Kidavenger said:

If it had been a surprise that they were losing their jobs, I'd feel bad for them, but these people should have know that they would be out of work for months now, plenty of time to look for alternate employment.

The stores were told they'ld continue to operate, from what I heard the Irish stores were profitable and the really shit thing about all this is that the head office staff were all let go with redundancy before they went into adminstration.

GAME only entered into trouble recently, they still operate in other regions so why the hell should these people thing they're suddenly going to be let go, with nothing more than a:" piss off, get what you're legally entitled to elsewhere."

fair play to the staff, as long as they hold onto the stock I'm sure PWC and GAME will listen as they'll need it for liquidation.