Brought to you by this week’s dumb required corporate training.
When I worked IT, our honeywell rep used to swing by at random and bring the entire building doughnuts. And I’m not talking gas station doughnuts, I’m talking doughnuts from the best bakery in the state (which happened to be local). Perhaps, not surprisingly we used a lot of honeywell stuff. It isn’t hard to bribe IT guys.
Took way too long for me to remember that they did more than make thermostats when reading your comment.
Like, I know they do, but I pass my Honeywell thermostat multiple times daily so my brain immediately got confused as to why an IT team needed to regularly buy thermostats to the point a salesman was involved.
Colleague messages me: I need your help with something, are you available?
Me: What is it? I’ll fit it in somewhere
Colleague: I’ve got choclate cookies
Me: I’ll be right over
My HP rep would buy me lunch every now and then and me and him would always talk about how bad their printers are.
Honeywell’s consumer products are trash
That’s why they need the donut bribe.
Honestly, their comercial ones are getting that way too. Like who the hell needs a touchscreen on an industrial thermal printer; thats just one more thing to easily break in an industrial environment. And god forbid you want a replacement touch screen because a new one is half the cost of a new printer.
it’s because implementing an existing touch screen module and then telling a bunch of code monkeys in a 3rd world country to write a barely functional UI for it is actively cheaper than engineering, sourcing, assembling and testing keypads with physical buttons or even a membrane keyboard these days
using a touch screen also means they can put the same mass produced PCB into 40 different products instead of needing a custom button pattern for each. just tell the code monkeys to update the UI. there’s a lot of economic arguments for the use of touch screens, but it sure doesn’t make the field worker’s lives any easier.
Takes the bribe, chooses a different bid because of the bribe.
Thats my kind if person.
The Supreme Court said it’s totally cool to take bribes, they do it all the time!
Man, I’ve seen so many people fired for taking bribes and kickbacks from vendors. Not even large amounts, just more than the limit and then not disclosing it to the ethics and compliance board. Such a stupid way to sabotage your own career.
bribe
limits
Uhh… whut
E: sorry Steve but we pride ourselves on only taking a little bit of bribery, and your level this year was ‘moderate’. We can’t have people going around here like that, we have to stay on the down-low.
I think of it like:
- I can buy you a beer or company branded swag, like I might for any friend
- I can probably buy you lunch but not dinner
- giving you anything of value is right out
- buying you a top of the line RV or giving you a ride on a private jet to an island private resort is instantly to jail. Yes, this means you, Clarence
It’s pretty annoying that I have to go through training every year at work telling me I’m not allowed to bribe politicians considering that
A. That’s pretty fucking common sense
B. I have no interest in bribing anyone
C. I never encounter politicians or anyone at work except for my immediate team
When I worked for the federal government, we had to take yearly training on how not to accept bribes/gifts.
Like…if anyone was serious about bribing my agency to get their way…and they decided that I, of all people, was the one to bribe…well they deserve to lose the value of the bribe just based on utter stupidity alone.
That kind of thing lets naive people continue with the belief that antisocial behavior comes from a lack of empathy/understanding.
What? How is your comment related to mine?
That comment is your comments third cousin by marriage
I work in government and we’re not allowed to accept gifts over $50, but I really prefer no one give me anything. Any time someone has, it’s been a thank you for work that’s already done, but I don’t want there to ever be any question about it. Plus, when you’re a younger woman (so not so much these days, but early career), people question if the gifter was angling for something else, which is awkward.
loudly proclaiming “I’m lesbian, Brian. Penises are icky. Get your head out of the gutter, ugh.”
Make them awkward once, and they won’t make you awkward ever again.
