[Zhang Fei]

I know there's going to be a lot of snark about this company. But for management to resort to these measures suggests that this company is not long for the world. This bug will become the economic equivalent of Armageddon for a lot of companies - the last straw that sends them into receivership.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Not a big surprise. It’s Austin.

[aimhigh]

Always beware of “the greater good”.

[Fido969]

“ImageNet”?

Do they manage your internet image?

[Deaf Smith]

Good chance some federal labor wage laws were violated by their attempt to extort their employees.

[BradyLS]

Pretty ballsy move. How did they imagine it would _not_ come to light?

[Alberta's Child]

I can actually see the company’s point if they were doing this to reduce the amount of money they were paying to employees who have been furloughed and are not working. The optics of this were terrible, because when the story workers made the rounds I had assumed that this was being done to employees who ARE working through this calamity.

[dragnet2]

I know there's going to be a lot of snark about this company. But for management to resort to these measures suggests that this company is not long for the world.

Too bad...Ya know what they'd say to individuals? "Ya should have saved more and been prepared."

[ConservaTexan]

Easy question:

What's worse, what this company CONSIDERED or what the Kennedy Center did?

[griffin]

All your stimulus are belong to US!

[libertylover]

It was such a dumb idea I thought it was fake news.

[lepton]

I know there’s going to be a lot of snark about this company. But for management to resort to these measures suggests that this company is not long for the world. This bug will become the economic equivalent of Armageddon for a lot of companies - the last straw that sends them into receivership.

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Setting aside law, if the employees are still working and getting a paycheck from the company, then the government checks are superfluous - in theory, it’s supposed to be a sort of workman’s comp, not a boon. If the employees are not getting paid, then that is a very different matter.

[Veggie Todd]

What, did cousin Eddie go and kidnap him?

[trebb]

Unless the top dogs give up their pay for ‘the greater good” of the company, they have no right to ask anything like that of the workers...

[GOPJ]

Russell wrote in the statement. “Our intentions were to serve the greater good and protect our most vulnerable employees.

Yeah right. Where's the letter to the 'most vulnerable employees' telling them of their upcoming bonus? LOL... what jerks.

[Svartalfiar]

The plan would’ve allowed the company to reduce paychecks by the amount of stimulus payment expected from the government.

The company wanted those workers to sign what it called its “Employee Emergency Compensation Fund.”

The agreement would have also allowed the company to take 50% of the stimulus act’s $500 per child credit.

And how does the company know who gets the credit and who doesn't? Maybe half their workers' wives make enough so their employee doesn't get any free cash? Maybe their employees work freelance side gigs, or have a lemonade stand, that puts their income above the stimulus level, even though company pay doesn't? Would all of those people still have gotten their pay cut? How does the company know how many kids each employee has, in order to steal half the $500 per?

[SendShaqtoIraq]

no it wasn’t ill advised. you were trying to STEAL from your employees. (not that i think everyone should get this)