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PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit

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Re: PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit

#11
The title of the article seems like linkbait. What Marcus said was: "In closing, if you are one of the folks who refused to install the PayPal app or if you can’t remember your PayPal password, do yourself a favor, go find something that will connect with your heart and mind elsewhere."

Pretty similar message, but the title makes him sound like an asshole when the actual text seems more reasonable. If you're not willing to use the products you make, then how can you expect anyone else to use them.

Re: PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit

#12
post #2

"It’s a bit ironic considering that yesterday Marcus took to Twitter to say his credit card was hacked. So clearly not all hacking is acceptable in Marcus’ book — only hacking that supports the company’s business objectives." sigh .

Agreed. Someone needs to create a PSA about the term "Hacking" in the 21st century.

Re: PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit

#14
"And part of that is having every employee be the customer and utilize our services wherever you can, and if you see a problem, highlight it and tell people to get it fixed. And that’s something we do a lot."

If it really worked, that'd be great. Instead of yelling at people who don't use the tools and programs, I'd suggest a review of those tools and processes, and a public rundown of the findings and improvements to those services. If people are spotting problems, reporting those to be fixed, and nothing gets done, or perhaps they're told to go pound sand, people will quit reporting problems. That very well may be the case (I've seen it happen at companies), and the CEO/President needs to get in to that part of the company and root out if in fact there is a problem in that part of operations.

If there is a problem, fix that and promote it. If there is no problem, they need to do a better job of promoting the case studies of things that were reported/fixed/improved. This will send a bigger message than public berating for not using stuff that may be broken. Those workers still have jobs to do, and if using the PP tools doesn't get the job done, and they're now expected to do bug reports as well as use broken/poor tools, you've just made everyone's job a lot worse.

Re: PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit

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post #13
post #7

Alternatively he could just hold their paychecks hostage like Paypal does with everyone else's money.

That really wouldn't last long in court.

Perhaps just like they're not really a "bank", they could try to argue they're not really an "employer", and are really "paying" their workers, so they're not subject to normal behaviors.

Re: PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit

#18
“We’re getting back to our technology and innovation roots, and we really want to be driving the best customer experiences that are possible,” the spokesman told VentureBeat.

Yeah, maybe if you took the customer experience seriously by, you know, responding to people's emails, having a human being customers can talk to, and not holding their money hostage, you'd be doing better? Just a thought.

Re: PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit

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post #2

"It’s a bit ironic considering that yesterday Marcus took to Twitter to say his credit card was hacked. So clearly not all hacking is acceptable in Marcus’ book — only hacking that supports the company’s business objectives." sigh .

I had the same reaction. Unfortunately the general public is ignorant about the different definition of hacking here. The author is likely ignorant about it too and not purposefully trying to deceive people.
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