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Wii for free
A reader, who prefers to remain anonymous, was recently offered a free gift for the first time from a regular supplier to the school in which he works.
He gratefully accepted the Nintendo Wii, ‘and enjoyed a weekend’s worth of Wii tennis and boxing’.
His joy was punctured on Monday when an invoice arrived for zero pounds – but for his Nintendo Wii. Our reader had to confess to accepting the gift and was let off the hook, but had to give his Wii back to the school.
So his question is: how do you justify getting a free Wii? What is the biggest freebie you’ve ever managed to justify, and how?
Back in the 1990s I was working for Abbey National on the implementation of Citrix Winframe Servers. During this time, I once received a $500 cash "bug bounty" from Citrix. Not bad for reporting a bug to Citrix when Abbey was paying me to do so! I asked my line manager at the time if it was OK to accept the award, and fortunately he said yes.
Posted by :Kam Ho | August 27, 2007 11:13 AM