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A guy I used to work with emailed the CEO of our company, a certain cloud software shop with thousands of employees, asking for the company to buy him a plane.
by mpeg 9y ago
A guy I used to work with emailed the CEO of our company, a certain cloud software shop with thousands of employees, asking for the company to buy him a plane.
There was some more to it, about using it to participate on a competition representing the company, but it was absolutely ridiculous.
Instead of the email getting filtered out right away, the story goes that it rolled downhill through several layers of management, and apparently, people were asking each other "who is this guy? do we need to buy him a plane?"
- planteen 9y agoWhat? So he an actual employee and wasn't phishing or committing fraud? And asked the company to buy him an airplane?
- celticninja 9y agoIf you don't ask you don't get.
- cosmie 9y agoSounds like they knew he wasn't an employee. What they didn't know was if he was associated with some high profile account and whether an employee (generally in sales or marketing) had inadvertently signed up the company to sponsor the guy in that competition. Better to check internally (and chew out your employee for overpromising if needed) than to accidentally jeopardize a large account by calling the guy a fraud or ignoring him and it turning out to be true.
- mpeg 9y agoHe was an employee
- cwkoss 9y agoNever hurts to ask!
- Nicholas_C 9y agoYou miss every shot you don't take.
- brianwawok 9y agoEasier to ask forgiveness than permission!
- markdown 9y agoUber!