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> preferred payment provider This was not about a payment provider. It was about their employer. If you can't promote your own product then Marcus was right -
by mandeepj 9y ago
> preferred payment provider
This was not about a payment provider. It was about their employer. If you can't promote your own product then Marcus was right - go find something else to do
- lotsofpulp 9y agoOr you could try to make a better product.
- asdsa5325 9y agoUsing a product is not "promoting" it. If it's easier to use a different payment method, then why use PayPal? Maybe that's a sign they should create a better product, instead of blaming employees
- hackinthebochs 9y agoNo, you blame the employees for not suffering their own product and raising ideas and tickets for how to fix it. It would be like John Carmack using the Vive instead of the Oculus Rift at home because its better. When you create the product there's no excuse to not be eating your own dogfood.
- lovich 9y agoJohn Carmack has the authority and position to actually make changes to the product. In what company beyond the 30+ person range does a random employee have any ability to just go up and suggest changes to a product and have a reasonable expectation to see the change happen? Maybe their reason for not using the product is the lack of some feature that doesn't even make sense for the company to ever implement. Are the employees supposed to suffer forever in their personal lives because of who their employer is?
- chickenfries 9y agoAlso John Carmack is the CTO, not some lowly admin employee or engineer working on a completely underrated product.
- SiempreViernes 9y agoWas using paypal for buying snacks part of the contract they signed, or is this just demands for loyalty by a company where managment felt no loyalty to the staff?
- tluyben2 9y agoI have never used Paypal to buy physical things on the street, but what would be the comission on that? I would never use Paypal for anything if I did not have to because of the comission and the bad conversion rate. So that could be a reason?
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago> If you can't promote your own product then Marcus was right - go find something else to do As a developer, should I also quit if I don't want to vacuum the carpets or restock the supply cabinet? If you need your product promoted, maybe hire someone with a marketing degree.
- hackinthebochs 9y agoNo, but you should quit if you've created a product that you wouldn't even use and have no interest in fixing it.
- tluyben2 9y agoYou are not working alone; maybe I love the stuff I make but dislike what my colleague makes? If I would work at Paypal; I see the value of the online product but I definitely see no value at all for offline. So even though I stand behind part of the product why would I use it for the parts I do not like?
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoWhy would you assume that any random PayPal employee (a) was directly involved in the point-of-sale payment system, (b) actively dislikes the PoS system (as opposed to simply seeing no advantage over their existing debit card), (c) has the ability and authority to fix whatever they think is wrong? This notion that it should be mandatory to love your company and its products is so fucking Orwellian.
- chickenfries 9y agoI don't now why you're being downvoted. The vast majority of PayPal employees had nothing to do with PayPal's POS system. This isn't some start up with one product.
- DrScump 9y agoShould Tesla employees be sanctioned for driving a Honda to work?
- gaius 9y agoIf McDonalds made every employee have a Big Mac every lunchtime they would shortly have no employees left...