Stymphalian Queen
*sigh* Again, those changes were made because the shop was sold. I've said this several times both in this thread, the other, and in the guild announcement. I'm really baffled that people just assume that jobs will roll over with the sale. Every shop I've ever been to does not do that; the new owners pick their own staff. It's the same as what frequently happens in RL. Believe me, I know from 1st hand experience.
And no one is going to take your pets. I don't know what the policy was in the old shop, but we NEVER take pets from people. That's just stupid; they were paid for, shop owners have no right to take them.
I think it's more the fact that they were on hiatus and it was known, and then got no warning of the events taken place.
Not that the job wouldn't transfer, but just that since they weren't here, they didn't know what was going on and was given no warning that they should speak up if they didn't want to be demoted.