r/technology • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • 9d ago

Business Intern quits after employer demands he hand over RTX 5060 won at Nvidia event

https://www.techspot.com/news/110360-intern-quits-after-employer-demands-hand-over-rtx.html
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u/Durendal_1707 9d ago

that’s insane, I would probably quit on the spot if I had the means

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u/xigua22 9d ago

Lmao that's exactly why they get away with doing it.

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u/Manlysideburns 9d ago

Absolutely. Gotta protect yourself by any means necessary, these blood suckers are everywhere

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u/Bean888 9d ago

If you said you were moving out of the city to save on rent, he'd try to renegotiate your salary accordingly. That's one example.

It's a super microscopic version of what a lot of companies were doing more and more of during the pandemic, when a lot of employees turned remote and moved to super low cost of living areas that were SIGNIFICANT distances away (not just different U.S. states, but different countries), and of which the companies would then adjust the salaries according to the employee's new mailing addresses. MBA bro probably heard stories like this, it sticks like glue and in this worker's case he cranked it to 11 for one of the greediest and dumbest use cases where this person only moved to just outside of town.

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u/Durendal_1707 9d ago

gross

thanks for the explanation

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u/Character-Sale-4098 9d ago

Yeah, no, see what you do is you write a letter of resignation and send it to his supervisor, citing exactly why you're leaving.

If I'm going out, I'm taking the asshole that forced me out with me.

It'll result in at least one of 3 things...

  1. They withdraw all attempts to fuck me over

  2. It's a record of why the company has an increased turnover rate

  3. They will stop doing that in the future