Stop Offering Me Amazon Gift Cards
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Stop Offering Me Amazon Gift Cards
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#2I get these offers all the time, but work for a company that would fire me if they thought I'd accepted any of them.
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#4I get these offers all the time, but work for a company that would fire me if they thought I'd accepted any of them.
I've gotten them on occasion and I never even really thought about the ethical implications; I'm not sure it would be that bad? That said, I always suspect phishing whether it's real or a test and do not respond to them.
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#5I get these offers all the time, but work for a company that would fire me if they thought I'd accepted any of them.
how about you send me yours, and i'll send mine to you
no conflict of interest to connect them
criss cross
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#6Agreed. Gifts and cash are forbidden in most corporte vendor management policies. Even the appearance of impropriety can get people fired. That's not worth a $5 gift card. If they even offer it I know I'm not intersted in them.
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#7I worked for a company that sent out remote controlled cars to their top 300 global targets, with the message “if you take the meeting you’ll get the remote”. Needless to say about 280 were returned, and the remaining 20 didn’t take meetings (I assume the cars look good on office bookshelves).
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#8One of the first things anyone should set up on a new corporate email account is a filter that sends messages containing “Sales Engineer” straight to spam.
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#9> 2: Gift cards as an incentive aren't always bad. It's when they're confusing your personal vs. professional roles. For example, if a company reaches out offering a gift card in exchange for a personal G2 review or as part of a research initiative, I don't see a conflict there.
Even the "personal" outreaches, such as market research to poll you as a subject matter expert, no mention of your employer... might actually be to try to milk you for information about your employer.
It could be on behalf of competitors of the company, and it could also be on behalf of prospective investors in the company.
Just say no to anyone offering to pay you for a call like that.
However, they can be even more evil, and harder to weed out: rather than some market research pretext, they can pretend to approach you as a recruiter.
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#10I get these offers all the time, but work for a company that would fire me if they thought I'd accepted any of them.
I've gotten them on occasion and I never even really thought about the ethical implications; I'm not sure it would be that bad? That said, I always suspect phishing whether it's real or a test and do not respond to them.
It really depends upon your industry and the cultural norms. My company doesn't even let vendors pay to cater the food when they visit. When I worked for a big for profit company, I loved when we'd have vendors pitch us stuff because they always catered lunch.