• Synapse@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 days ago

    My company forces everyone to take a training that must be repeated every year, teaching us that we have to always refuse gifts because of corruption and collision collusion laws.

    • antbricks@lemmy.today
      1·
      11 days ago

      I can only hope that was an autocorrect, otherwise you’d better retake that training. Or maybe full-contact corrupting is a thing now…

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
    2·
    12 days ago

    We need to start recognizing corporate greed as a mental disorder. This is a company large enough that employees don’t interact with the owner directly, and all the profits from the company aren’t enough for the owner: they also want the pen the delivery guy gave you. It’s a sickness.

    • amorangi@lemmy.nz
      1·
      11 days ago

      You can generally wait 2 or 3 days before giving him the food. Of course by then it’s been processed.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 days ago

      Obviously not. You order it to go, sit there awkwardly while the client eats, then bring the box of cold food to the manager who the gives it to the owner eventually.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    1·
    13 days ago

    1. Have vendor take you out to lunch.

    2. Walk into bosses office and regurgitate the lunch onto their desk.

    3. Profit?

    Make sure the vendor buys you a nice boozy drink. Some top shelf whiskey or something. Bosses love top shelf whiskey.

    And make sure you get something that looks absolutely repulsive after you vomit it back up. I’d recommend a Greek Salad, extra feta.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Take long enough and you can just shit on the boss’s desk, slap down the paper, and ask for a “thank you” for bringing back some lunch.

  • Luccus@feddit.org
    1·
    12 days ago

    Once a user came into our office on the verge of tears. Her notebook wouldn’t boot and she thought that meant her thesis was lost.

    Didn’t make a backup either.

    But luckily it was the mainboard that quit and not the SSD. So we were able to decrypt it and get her up and running again. After we told her to make a backup next time, she was so happy that she wanted to give us money. We refused.

    Come next day, she stormed in, without saying a word. Just threw a pile of candy and a handful of soft drinks on our table and ran off before we could do anything about it.

    Fuck you, boss. That’s our candy now.

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 days ago

      Thats a great feeling. I did extremely low level tech support for other students while at uni. in 2003 (Think issuing user names, filling copy paper, sorting out storage space allocation on the shared drives.) Small part time job that paid for boze. A girl came in with a 3.5" floppy disk on the verge of tears and said she couldn’t get the file on it. It was her master thesis and the only place she had stored it. We still had floppy disk drives and I slitted it in and used a dos shell to acess a: but nothing. No disk in drive. I took the floppy out and noticed that the metal protection of the actuall disk (that soft plastic circle) didn’t slide properly. To me it looked like the spring was just to worn and had no tension. Took it off and could then access the files on it. Error was that the spring wasn’t able to slide the metal protector away when inserted into the reader.

      Copied the files to her “home” area, sent a copy by email and gave her a new floppy with the files and told her about the importance of back ups.

      The sheer look of relief and gratitude was priceless.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    1·
    12 days ago

    Yeah, that company has red flags.

    Red flag number 1: the contents of the note

    Red flag number 2: using duct tape to attach the note to the wall. Hints at a huge managerial Skill Issue.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      A proper company would instead be talking about compliance and how gifts of really any meaningful value have to be rejected outright.

  • Intheflsun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    13 days ago

    If you’re in the USA, please feel fee to photograph and submit to NLRB for review. They like it when the guilty type it up and post it.

      • Ledivin@lemmy.world
        1·
        13 days ago

        State Labor boards should be largely unaffected, and are usually the ones to actually punish the offenders anyway.

            • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
              11·
              4 days ago

              You might not be saying that if/when someone who represents your interests gets into power. Remember, we got the ADA, Civil Rights, and more through widespread protest action. Things will continue to happen.

              • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
                1·
                4 days ago

                the US federal government is literally a bunch of nazis, how on earth do you think that’s going to be helping people?

                • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  I don’t think any amount of discussion with you on this subject is going to change either of our minds on the federal government. I’m just gonna assume you’re a leftist and have your own approach to getting shit done that I’m not engaged with and wish you a good day.

    • scytale@lemmy.zip
      1·
      13 days ago

      That’s true, but this directs them to the owner anyway, which is the same thing. It just goes to someone else. If this was actually anti-bribery policy, gifts should not be accepted full stop.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      When I worked for a major database company they made me take annual training to explain that I wasn’t allowed to buy sex workers for potential clients.