EK is Imploding: Not Paying Employees, Partners, & Suppliers | Investigative Report
EK is Imploding: Not Paying Employees, Partners, & Suppliers | Investigative Report
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EK Water Blocks, for those who don't know and haven't clicked. They make cooling systems for gaming PCs.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ekwb-reportedly-plagued-with-financial-disarray
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Thank you. I really didn’t want to watch a 36 minute video to get the basics.
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Sounds like a prelude to bankruptcy. Also sounds like an incredibly badly run company. Difficult business to be in though I guess.
I wonder if their lawyers are getting paid...
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I'm sorry, if I wasn't paid for more than one pay period, and zero check on period 2...I'm getting a lawyer.
It's an easy win. The employee makes more than missed checks and guaranteed pay day for lawyer.
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Lawyer not even necessary in some areas, can just contact department of labor and they will go after them.
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You may be underestimating the length of the legal process involved.
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Absolutely disgusting behavior from EK. I hope the workers unionize over this, if the company still exists by then.
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Generally speaking once a company starts missing multiple payrolls there is nothing left to unionize.
Because of the legal ramifications missing payroll is usually the last step before just before shutting down completely.
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Sad, EK used to be huge in the watercooling scene.
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I remember when EK was just Edvard König selling stuff on XtremeSystems.org
Granted, my interest in overclocking and cooling peaked in the mid noughties, but I had no idea EK had gotten this big.
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Yes, some 20 years ago, even before the first logo or company.
The first logo was always so funny to me (so bad that kinda good):
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EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Damn, that seems like a ridiculously large product lineup for such a relatively small niche market.
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