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

[QtrRobit]

Maybe if it was a $1000 card but a $350 card. Bit of an overreaction. Dude's boss must be a major pr*ck.

 

[AnilD]

The wild part isn’t the GPU, it’s how quickly the situation exposed the company’s culture. If your first instinct is to confiscate an intern’s raffle prize and hold multiple “interviews” about it, that’s a clear sign where the real problem lies.

 

[malleybu]

Boy how petty can you get, Well in that case, I take it the food and drink I ate on the trip would be company property, so I'd have send it back to them, (in digested format of course) packaged with the card to save on postage.

 

[BuckarooBonzaii]

The company will now change it's policy to make it more clear for business trips.

 

[vimann]

By this logic: if my friend gives me 10$ and I buy a lottery ticket and I win, the prize is his.

 

[Shirley Dulcey]

Is this real? What company would demand a 5060 from an employee. If it's true (which I highly doubt) the company in questions needs naming and shaming.

If it were some small company that might actually have a use for the graphics card internally, and didn't have the budget to go out and buy one, I might have some sympathy for them. MIGHT.

But he was presumably interning at some large company. They don't need an RTX 5060. Asking the employee to give up the card was petty. Not to mention that the PR impact of their actions will cost them far more than one graphics card would, even if he had won an RTX 5090.

 

[Achaios]

Chinese being Chinese.

I am having a really hard time trying to imagine worse people than the Chinese. Ruthless, inhuman, merciless.

They are so evil. A whole company took on an innocent intern because he won the equivalent of $450.

 

[nitanmarcel]

Don't these need you to pay a small fee for entering the giveaway? If so, probably has been paid the the intern himself as I don't think the company just handed him money for him to spend around. So they had no right to demand it back. Imagine going over a business trip, getting a souvenir for your family and having to hand it over to your employer.

 

[comnut]

Nvidia themselves. Does sound like classic internal politics, those are always full-on petty.

If it were some small company that might actually have a use for the graphics card internally, and didn't have the budget to go out and buy one, I might have some sympathy for them. MIGHT.

But he was presumably interning at some large company. They don't need an RTX 5060. Asking the employee to give up the card was petty. Not to mention that the PR impact of their actions will cost them far more than one graphics card would, even if he had won an RTX 5090.

well demand £400 bonus, use it to get a radeon or better : )

 

[Gars]

Name of the company?