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From:    "T"
Date: Mar 12, 2007 2:30 PM
Subject: Chacha walk out

Hi, I was looking at the board to see if you had heard about the walk out. People are saying they are upset about the way chacha is treating their guides. So someone decided on monday that if no one logs in too chacha maybe they would see that they are treating their people wrong and make chages to help their people not take things away. I agree with this whole thing. They have fired people because of pranks and have worked harder to help the pranks then to help us. I just read the article about the chacha guide saving for her daughters b-day. wow that brought tears to my eyes. This could be either one of us! Now people are cashing out everynight. Chacha is making more 2.00 then anyone we know. SOmething has to be done. You can edit this and post however you like. I am looking forward to the greta american chacha walk out!

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I go to sign out and I get this.

I was not aware of the boycott, T, but I could have bet good money on it happening eventually. Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to have the desired result which I guess is for ChaCha to change its ways? Stop doing crazy things? Hire people with real customer support skills? I don't know, I'm just grasping at straws here LOL

And I'd support you guys in doing it but as I said two posts earlier, I no longer do ChaCha. It's a waste of time, always has been, and will forever be. Unless you were an original guide that got in during the first two weeks of ChaCha's existence, knew a lot of good people to build your network with, and made a ton of money off of it before all the problems began, you weren't going to be successful.  It was an uphill battle. I had started in September. The Guides that came after that only had it worse.  I can't imagine it's going to get better from here on out.

It's disappointing that it had to come to this stage. One would think that a company that just got handed 6 mil from Bezos not too long ago would have learned how to operate  and behave like a corporation by now and not like the college fraternity house atmosphere it's currently emulating. I know some Guides are under the impression that phonecalls from Brad are not common but I would like to point out that they are. I've received dozens of emails from people--who asked I not publish their stories--that received phonecalls from him or someone else up there at the HQ.  I've never heard of Indy calling someone though it wouldn't surprise me to learn he did if I ever hear about it. 

Almost every phonecall was to alert the Guide to "fraudulent" activity that was occuring on their account. To this date I have only heard from one person who actually committed the fraudulent activity by using the training refresh exploit. Otherwise, all emails I received were from individuals who didn't know which end was up or what they had done to deserve to be deactivated.

I believe the guides.

At first I was shocked, then I was pissed off, then I calmed down, now I think it's asinine.  

I was also in somewhat regular contact with someone over at their HQ (who contacted me first) although I promised never to name who they are.  I won't go back on the promise. I heard ChaCha's side of the story.  Now I don't want to hear their side at all. And never again.

I've done enough listening and it's time to get back to my original purpose here. To expose the problems with this company and the battles that their "workers" have to face on a regular basis.

Keep me posted on the boycott.  If you want me to help get the word out this is the best way I can help you as this blog still receives a substantial amount of hits per day even though I haven't written in it for over a month.

But......I guess I'm going to have to start posting again, now, aren't I?