• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Small note on the cooler subject; the cooler was auctioned to charity - they didn’t keep the money for themselves.

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      It doesn’t matter. It literally doesn’t matter.

      The problem is THAT it left LMG to anywhere except the manufacturer, NOT how it left. The problem is it left the company at all to the wrong place.

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        And then offered to pay for the BOM of the device acting as though that completely makes up for the mistake, ignoring the potential harm to Billets intellectual property.

        Then their apology is all butt hurt that they THOUGHT they’d offered to pay for it, but only sent the email internally, not realizing their mistake until called out again. Then whining that no one is giving them the benefit of the doubt when they’ve demonstrated lack of judgement throughout the whole ordeal.

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          Forgetting to put the actual recipient in the TO filed is such a weird mistake too. You got all the CCs, but ignored the TO?

          I get that shit happens, but its not like it was a complex email they drafted several times and wanted to make sure it wasent sent by mistake. Its whole contents was “oops, our bad. Can you send us an invoice and well get this sorted out.” Why did they not hit “reply all” like a sane person for something that mundane?

          Its just so weird, and honestly is either made up, or points to odd workflows and more sloppy processes, even over on the buisness side.

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      Love that they clarified that after being called out, as if that somehow makes it more acceptable. “See? It was to charity guys, you think making money for charity is a bad thing?” While still missing the mark completely and refusing to send said prototype back.

      Talk about moving goalposts. They fucked up.

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        1 year ago

        It’s still a bad mistake, absolutely. If the cooler hadn’t been sent out already, I’d call it malice. I don’t think they’re claiming themselves blameless, just admitting that while they’re dumb, they’re not greedy.

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          Idk, taking someone else’s property, when not given permission, for your own tax deductions still sounds pretty shitty

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            You don’t get to claim a tax credit on someone else’s charitable donations. In this situation, the buyer gets a proof of donation that they get to claim on their taxes. It wouldn’t be LMG deducting it.

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            Do people still not understand how donations/charities work? If they sold it for $100 and donated $100. Yes, they technically get a tax deduction. But it doesn’t change how much profit they made. If they had tossed it in the trash they’d still have the same amount of profit. They just aren’t paying tax on the $100 they sold it for because that money is being donated.

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            I mean…they were reviewing it in-house. They had already “taken” it. The question is whether they give it back after - and it’s a very common routine for manufacturers to just not care, in which case a charity auction would be normal.

            It sounds like it was just a unique case where they slipped the directions, and forgot the company had asked them to return the prototype after. It was a dumb mistake, yes, but a lot of people are acting like it was super scummy and intentional which I don’t get.

            It seems like the other circumstances around poor work environment and low review quality are a lot more important.

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      That’s even worse. Giving charity stolen money is pretty fucked up.