...some mockingly asking whether the firm would've maintained the same tenacity and reimbursed the Intern had he been fined 50,000 RMB at the event instead
Thanks for saving me the read, I wish we(or the HN team) could flag these posts as AI-authored.
It worries me that the "average HNer" doesn't perform independent analysis on even the headlines anymore, but rather the "top comment/flavor of the month" opinion at the top of the discussion.
It is...dangerous to then say "I wish we we could flag these posts as AI-authored"
Dang has done an incredible job with the flagging system, and it is reliant on the shared understanding of the users here that we are all acting in good faith and not performing surface level analysis/criticism.
Additionally, even though they're not fully reliable, most popular AI detectors rate this article as 100% human.
You can see this author has been writing similar low-effort listicles and articles since well before ChatGPT came out. The writing style also matches:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200811132340/https://appuals.c...
https://web.archive.org/web/20221021195546/https://www.wepc....
They don't sound like AI. AI sounds like them, because this is exactly the type of content that the LLMs were trained on and tuned to replicate.
And there's an easy solution for them, too: pay with the company card. If the company expects me to use my personal financing on their behalf, then I get to keep the benefits.
Hmm...I feel like the company's reasoning here is almost acceptable. Almost, because I know as a (paid) employee, all of the code I write, any inventions or IP I come up with are the company's property, so it almost makes sense that the company might also want to assert its right to claim that any physical things given or gifted in the course of work-related trips that employees take on company time.
but the article mentions the winner was an intern, not an employee, and I know many interns i've worked with never actually signed an employment agreement, because they dont actually get paid. They sign NDAs but not full on employment agreements, so how can any company treat them like an employee? if I wasn't getting paid, I'd 100% hold my ground like the intern did and take it.
It's like your employer asking that you keep the pretzels on your business flights and hand them in to the office snack bar. Only ill will can come from that, and zero profit.
It's just another example of how contract law, lawyers, and legal fictions represent a bottom up funnel of value extraction from the populace in which they exist. Can't even just work and get paid without some arsehole driving/hiding behind a legal fiction strip mining you for all the law will let them get away with.
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> HR then told the intern to "look for another company," and he submitted his resignation that night.