I'm not sure, but I don't work for free. I stop being paid, I stop working. Why should i freely give up my time to make someone else money?

In most at-will-employment countries/states you can just stop showing up and the worst they can do is fire you. Sure, you’d loose your unused holidays and potential bonuses, but if the company is too broke to even pay your salary did you really expect to get those bonuses anyway?

Pretty much and the thing is, businesses that don't remember their employees are the ones there every day making them their money aren't worth working for. Even when/if things get better, the treatment won't change. There'll be something else. It's not like this company is some upstart, starry eyed and hopeful first time startup or anything.

> I ask because I'm trying to understand why someone would keep working

because their H1Bs require sponsorship and because they know they are incompetent but don't want to go back to being slumdogs if they can possibly keep ripping off those who trusted them for even a little longer?

I love how the H1B workers downvote..truth hurts don't it.

The "team" at i.am+ was given money, offices, fame and connections --the (lack of) quality of what they put out speaks for itself (literally haha).