According to Fast Technology, on November 14, a Shanghai company sent one of its trainees on a business trip to Suzhou to participate in the Nvidia road show event. At the end of the ceremony, a ticket-collecting raffle was opened to all – essentially a lucky draw – where you could participate to win exciting prizes. Our “victim” signed up for it and won a brand new RTX 5060, worth around 3000 RMB (~$422).
Graphics cards are typically the most expensive components of a computer. So, when you get something for free, it feels like the universe is finally throwing you a bone, and rewarding you for years of kindness and suffering. Then, if that GPU suddenly gets embroiled in a legal dispute, you start second-guessing your alliances, shattering loyalties in an instant. A similar bittersweet tale unfolded in China last week, where an employee almost lost his shiny new RTX 5060, but ultimately walked away with both the GPU and a story.
Even though the company considered the RTX 5060 to be company property, it ultimately did not seize the GPU. HR then told the intern to “find another company” and she submitted her resignation the same night. Assuming general corporate trends, the employee either had to be extremely tenacious or was paid like a typical intern (or not at all), so leaving the company over a $400 GPU made more sense. However, remaining without a card could have made the atmosphere even more hostile.
The lawyers discussing the case sided with the intern, saying that the prize won by random chance belongs to the person holding the ticket. It doesn’t matter whether they were there on business or not; At that moment, the employee was not performing his or her duties while participating in the raffle. Unless contracts or internal rules explicitly address company property matters, in a legal standoff, the employee is in the stronger position.
Netizens agreed with this sentiment, with some jokingly asking whether the firm would have maintained the same persistence and reimbursed the Internet if it had been fined 50,000 RMB at the event. Ultimately, this story serves as a powerful reminder to stand up for yourself in a corporate world that rarely sees you as anything more than replaceable.
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