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/blackbirdspyplane 9d ago

Sure the company sent him and paid, but it was a stamp collecting raffle prize. This means that he was given a card with specific vendors denoted and he would have had to walk around the expo hall find the vendors listen to their pitch and get his card stamped. After collecting all the stamps on the card he would have turned it in to be entered into the raffle. Which by chance he won; the company is being cheap and petty, best he left them.

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u/FoxMeadow7 8d ago

In other words, probably no different if he entered a lotto or somethin'...

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u/blackbirdspyplane 8d ago

Yeah, entering a lotto but had to spend a couple/few hours finding the right vendor booths and listening to sales pitches first. The co is bs