From: http://webdiplomacy.net/rules.php

"8. You must answer communication from site staff
You must answer any warnings or other messages sent to you by the moderators, because if you don't reply it will be assumed you have something to hide, and your account may be closed. As part of this, you must make sure that the email address provided is one you still check, because this normally how staff will communicate with you."

About that...

Yeah ~4 years ago I had a different account (which I can't remember the username for), that account presently occupies my most active email address...

Facses makes a lame excuse as being a dumbass who doesn't keep track of his email....

@Fasces349
Does
Help->Find a user->Search by email
solve this problem for you? If not, email us and we can fix it.

Also, I've always pronounced your name as feces and it cracks me up, so maybe you should have stuck with the old one. =P

Oh, I always thought it was spelled like the fancy way of spelling feces, but I guess that is actually "faeces" (just looked it up).

"Also, I've always pronounced your name as feces and it cracks me up"

Comedy gold.

"good times"

Question: I fixed mine, but I think I filled out the GR survey using the one I knew was listed, which I don't check anymore. Is that a potential issue?

It's all good. The e-mail section was just to prevent multi-votes and serve as a mailing list for those wanting to work on the development.

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On a related note: how much time is allowed for a person to respond? Is this somewhere listed, or does it depend on the play frequency of individual players?

II typically send the message, wait two days, send a reminder, wait two days, and then act on whatever the case/ticket concerns if I still haven't heard from them. So if you check your email less than twice a week and we need something from you, you're boned.

Personal rant:
For most professions, it isn't necessary to have your phone or browser constantly notifying you of new emails, but in any field using email as a main form of communication, if you can't find the time to check email at least three times a day, you aren't someone I want to work with. (I've actually had to let someone go because they refused to make a habit of checking their email).

Not counting the few addresses/labels I allow to notify me right away through mobile or browser, I check my email roughly twenty times per day (every working half hour). But with all the amazing features of gmail combined with my (now) effortless priority labels, I usually spend less than an hour a day actually working with email. Anything time-insensitive that needs lengthy/delicate wordcrafting gets delegated to overnight.

when I created this account fasces was my nickname at school (given my fascist ideologies at the time).

Soon after that it evolved into faeces, lol.

in anycase I changed it, thanks for the help.

Nope, I'm not changing it to one I check regularly. It's on GMail with the rest of my spam for a reason. If I get banned for not responding in a "timely" fashion (they consider hours timely but can't be bothered to respond to ours in days, if at all) so be it.

We've never required responses within hours or even days and hardly any case sent to us sits in the inbox for longer than a day without being investigated and responded to.

@Geo - If I were working with you and you insisted I had to check email at least three times a day, I'd lety yoyu fire me and collect unemployment. When I'm bust, email gets shutdown and I may not check it but one time the entire day. Never been fired for it and I think you'd find if you did fire someone for that, they would have grounds to sue you for unlawful termination. You may have gotten away with it once because most people are idiots and don't know their legal employment rights, but you will one day run into someone and it will cost you.

And your last post is complete, total, and utter bullshit. Your own rules even state you have no obligation to reply. You've (the collective mod hive mind) said it over and over again. So don't give me that "we rrespond within a day" bullshit. I fucking know better. You sometimes never respond.

Where's Thucy and his hug?

Draug, what kind of world do you live in?

Not answering email after repeated warnings of the need falls under plenty of reasons for termination:
- Consistent incompetence and other shortcomings.
- Repeated unexcused absenteeism or tardiness.
- Incompetence or failure to respond to training
- Misbehavior or rudeness toward clients or customers

And under no circumstances would you be able to gather unemployment from this. Every state has different specifics, but they ALL state that you must have been have lost your job through no fault of your own.

@Zultar - my first started as a joke. I check GMail a couple of times a week and that's enough. But I got serious when Geo posted the bullshit about them responding in a day. They have admitted to backlogs of days before and that they have no "obligation" to respond at all, so I want him to asnwer to that bullshit statement.

Ow I love how this thread is developing... Keep 'm coming.

@Geo - I got fired for having a "bad attitude that was affecting morale". I got unemployment because it wasn't in their employee handbook that I had to have a positive attitude. If it isn't in the employee handbook in KY or OH and it doesn't break a state law, the person can collect unemployment.

@Draugnar, the idea that you would be fired for having a bad attitude is simply ludicrous. You must tell us more about this.

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My wife got seriously hurt the first of 2011. I had been at the company for over 6 months (the time required for FMLA), but had only recently became an employee (about 3 months earlier) as I was consulting with them, which they used as an excuse to not let me take time off via FMLA to take care of her (broke her foot and ankle, pulverized it basically) so I offered to work from home and come in for two hours a day for meetings when I could get a neighbor to come over. Still wasn't good enough for them. So I managed to get someone to watch her but came in and put in exactly 8 hours a day. Refused to work overtime. Refused to take work home. Refused to do *anything* that wasn't directly listed on the employment offer.

At the same time as my wife mangling her foot, a new "boss" came onboard. This bitch was a friend of the big boss, so she coudl do no worng. She had literally been at the job three days when the incident occured. Seeing as she wouldn't see reason, I refused to follow her directive to come in on a Saturday. She *thought* she could order us all in on a Satruday. She tried it *two* Saturdays in a row. I refused both. The thrid one was the day after my birthday. She said "come in or else", I said "do your worst". They fired me on my birthday, the day before that Satruday. I went straight to unemployment. 30 days later I had a check in hand, wne in, and told her and the "big boss" to their faces just what fucking idiots they were. I then went to the President of the company and laid it all out and hsowed him the unemployment check. Neither of them work there anymore. They weren't fired, but were both asked to resign.

In order to establish unemployment eligibility in Ohio you have to:

1. Be a resident of Ohio. If you are not a resident of Ohio, but worked in Ohio at your last job, you should still have Ohio unemployment eligibility.
2. Have worked and earned income in Ohio.
3. You must not be disabled.
4. You must be able to work.
5. You must be actively looking for a new job.
6. You must have lost your job through no fault of your own. If you quit your job or were fired for 'just cause' you may not be eligible to collect unemployment in Ohio. Every case is different, so if you lost your job -- be sure to apply to unemployment in case you are indeed eligible to receive unemployment benefits.

Sounds like the employer didn't make sure to cover the 'just cause' part because they wanted you gone so badly.

Also, in regards to your claim of our response time:
I'm compiling all the timestamps on your emails and our responses to them. You'll eat your words when I post the results. So far I've only come across one email that went unanswered for longer than a day and it was your latest "I'm Draugnar and I demand that Kestas do blah blah blah" tantrum.

Bear with me though. It isn't a speedy process and there are a LOT of emails. BTW, why refuse to change the email address on your account if you send us mail from your real ones anyway?

It seems like their 'just cause' was 'just cuz' lol

@Draugnar
Also, it seems you have no problem checking your email more than three times a day. =)

Any manager or boss that fires Draugnar must be completely inept. Fuck them.