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> To add insult to injury, they can’t even order a burger with their bounty, which can only be spent at the Yahoo Company Store Yahoo gave them $25 in store cr
by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
> To add insult to injury, they can’t even order a burger with their bounty, which can only be spent at the Yahoo Company Store
Yahoo gave them $25 in store credit at Yahoo.
I'd rather have gotten a nice letter, because that kind of "compensation" is as much trying to attract business to Yahoo products as it is trying to reward me.
In all likelihood, they'd have earned at least 10 times as much spending the same number of hours at Burger King, and probably over 100 times as much selling the flaws.
Grossly underpaying is much more insulting, because it says directly what they value your work at, than not paying, which may simply be a policy of not handing out rewards for that kind of behavior.
- evan_ 13y agoWhat makes you think they didn't also get a nice letter?
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoBy default, it can't be a 'nice' letter if it contains an insulting message - which is what's communicated by that level and type of reward. My point is Yahoo's message to the people would have been taken better as /just/ a letter, than a letter and a far undervalued "reward".
- tedunangst 13y agoPerhaps the idea was to say "hey, thanks, here's a tshirt. Instead of us picking one, you go ahead and pick out any one you like." Or is a letter and a novelty gift also an insult?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoPicking out a novelty gift would be fine, you could even have put some thought in to what it would be; acting like giving me the funds equivalent to a novelty gift is a reward tells me the precise dollar value you attached to my work, which is insulting. The funds are considerably more impersonal than simply giving a gift and demonstrate in a concrete way the low value it was given by Yahoo - not even worth a personal email to ask about tshirt size/style.
- jlgreco 13y agoI think he is saying that a letter an no money would be better than a letter and a pathetic amount of money. Getting a pathetic amount of money is more insulting than not getting any money.