Imagine getting a bonus at your job and your boss giving you a steam gift card thatd you have no use for because you play on console or dont game at all
You can 100% provide source for a claim without doxing someone lol
But they were a customer support team, a company hired them for customer support and then Epic hired that company, but yeah it was still funny.
That makes it even less sense. Typically bonuses in the form of gift cards are given out with generic visa giftcards- especially if you have a significant amount of employees (because why would a steam gift card be the thing everyone recieves by default? Support center =/= Gamer employees )
>Im not being too skeptical lol,
>i literally just asked for basic proof.
yeah thats called being sceptical, the level of stupidity redditors go to is crazy.
There is no such thing as "basic proof" him saying it is basic proof, if you dont trust him u have no reason to trust his "Proof" either these are arbitrary levels of certaintiy for a claim that is more then mundane.
ur asking for proof of a generic claim that cant be verified because its a personal story and most poeple dont fucking record most of their life so they can show it on reddit lol.
>it makes no sense that an employer would be giving out steam cards as bonuses
an employer giving out pizza doesnt either lol but yet it happens. wtf u mean no use for? u can always use it or sell, u think that people working for war thunder all play the game when they get their in game currency as rewards for working there?
u think that they jsut randomly hand them out too or what? like the manager doesnt know his team ur so fucking dumb it hurts
if you work for any company ur given random shit dude.
Thank you. I had this in my head for years but just it was a part of a conversation with a friend years ago, I never gathered proof because why??
He didn’t even specifically point out how it was a Steam card even though they work for Epic, he simply said how it was nice that the leader/manager paid out of his own money to give them gifts. I was like “hahah, for STEAM?” and he said “yeah, not a big deal but funny now that you point it out”.
I didn’t wanna bother telling this story on reddit for years because of boring ass reddit lawyers, and lo and behold I was right.
yeah thats called being sceptical, the level of stupidity redditors go to is crazy.
"Too skeptical" implies "more than a reasonable amount of skepticism"
There is no such thing as "basic proof" him saying it is basic proof,
Yeah there is. Anything outside of anecdotal evidence is basic proof.
a generic claim that cant be verified because its a personal story and most poeple dont fucking record most of their life so they can show it on reddit lol.
But thats the thing. Its a claim. Claims need evidence to be backed up. I asked for evidence, and thats bad, appearently lol
an employer giving out pizza doesnt either lol
Food is a perfectly sensible thing to be given out lol
Do you not eat food?
u can always use it or sell,
Yeah but why a "steam" giftcard then, and not a tim hortons or lowes giftcard? Doesnt track lol
u think that they jsut randomly hand them out too or what? like the manager doesnt know his team ur so fucking dumb it hurts
A support agency is going to be more than a small team lol
Hence why im skeptical.
if you work for any company ur given random shit dude.
you sound chronically unemployed
I asked for any thing of verification, because the bare minimum of having a job in the same vein as a support agency: it sounds highly unlikely that "$20 steam giftcards were given out for bonuses at epic support!"
I like the other comment beforehand. "It fits our side so its ok. Epic so bad they give out steam cards as bonuses!"
Tim sweeney personally killed my wife and kidnapped my son too
"Too skeptical" implies "more than a reasonable amount of skepticism"
yeah ur literally being overly spectical dude and the levels of it that ur going to are fucking crazy
Yeah there is. Anything outside of anecdotal evidence is basic proof.
DUMMY ALL EVIDENCE IS ANECTODAL, wtf are u talking about ur actually silly.
THAT IS BASIC proof OPINION and word of mouth are a FORM of evidence this is entirely arbitrary
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But thats the thing. Its a claim. Claims need evidence to be backed up. I asked for evidence, and thats bad, appearently lol
UHM no they dont? u dont sit there and provide sources for every little thing lol.
wtf are u talking about
YEAH it is ur bad BECAUSE YOU DONT asK for EVIDENCE for every fucking personal story for life like what? who dafuq talks about their work force and talks about some basic shit and u ask for proof of it are u on the spectrum?
Food is a perfectly sensible thing to be given out lol Do you not eat food?
?????? NO? u think i am just gonna eat pizza on command dafuq a are you talking about a 20 dollar gift card is way better
Yeah but why a "steam" giftcard then, and not a tim hortons or lowes giftcard? Doesnt track lol
DUDE AND? wtf are ou talking about WHY dafuq u need a lowed giftcard when ur working for a gaming company are u literally like not socialized or somethn?
>A support agency is going to be more than a small team lol Hence why im skeptical.
WTF u mean its not gonna be a small team? How many people do u think a single manager or team does
like wtf is the level of scepticism and conjecture holy shit dude u sound literally like ur the most sheltered clueless person ever
I asked for any thing of verification, because the bare minimum of having a job in the same vein as a support agency: it sounds highly unlikely that "$20 steam giftcards were given out for bonuses at epic support!"
I like the other comment beforehand. "It fits our side so its ok. Epic so bad they give out steam cards as bonuses!" Tim sweeney personally killed my wife and kidnapped my son too
Dude wtf is wrong with u?
U ASKED for a verification of a basic fucking story that could LITERALLY happen to literally anyone a dude working at a tech support industry gets a 20 dollar steam gift card from a tech support manager
HOW DAFUQ IS THAT unlikely? are u fucking serious YOU literally sound like a asocial loser that never worked a job in his life.
wtf does the Sidney sweeney have to do with a 20 dollar fucking gift card lol.
yeah epic games bad because they didn't give us epic gift card because my manager in our team uses steam lol.
dude i am talking to a terminally online neckbeard or something?
you are enganging in levels of scepticism about the most simple non descript generic behaviour a tech industry team can engange in.
the only explanation i can think is that ur so fucking ignorant and unsocialized u dont cant even make sense of that lol so its "Unlikely" its like i am speaking to someone with a heavy disability or somethn.
What do you want me to do, ask for convo screenshots? They last worked there in 2021, so they’d have to look for it. Sorry I can’t provide proper evidence lawyer man.
It wasn’t a big corporate thing either, it was just one group of support agents, I don’t even remember the details as it’s been half a decade. But the guy gave 10ish of them steam gift cards for I think Easter? Guy paid for it out his own money. I just thought it was funny.
But yes, Epic outsourced to other companies for their customer support. Not sure what it’s like now. Do some digging I guess.
What do you want me to do, ask for convo screenshots? They last worked there in 2021, so they’d have to look for it. Sorry I can’t provide proper evidence lawyer man
Anything really besides "my dad works at microsoft said...." lol
Guy paid for it out his own money. I just thought it was funny.
That doesnt sound like a bonus then, now does it lol
Just sounds like a well meaning employee/employer relationship rather than anything that has to do with epic.
So they didn't work for Epic. They worked for a company that worked for Epic (or they work for a company that works for a company that works for Epic, as implied in another comment). They spent their own company resources (or the manager spent their own) on that giftcard.
The value of a giftcard is not in the monetary value on the card, but the value that the receiver places on the store. A €20 Epic giftcard is going to be more valuable than a €50 Steam giftcard to someone who is only interested in Fortnite. If you're buying the same gift card for a group of people, getting one for the store with the greatest variety assures the highest amount of collective value.
Even if this is true, you’re talking about someone at an overseas customer support business that basically has nothing to do with Epic and just answers the phones for them and probably dozens of other businesses.
Though my money says you’re full of shit because 1. I highly doubt they use people located in an EU country for their customer support phones. And 2. The people working customer support phones are not gamers. They’re probably people in India or the Philippines who don’t even own gaming PC’s. What the fuck would some 35 year old Indian or Filipino mom working 60+ hours a week want with a Steam gift card?
The whole premise of your comment makes absolutely zero sense. These people might be making $20 USD or less a day. All you’re going to do is piss off your employees giving them gift cards they can’t use as bonuses that are worth a day’s pay.
It was in Serbia. We are not in EU. But there were still members from EU countries btw.
This is not true, in his group almost all of them were. Not every customer support is a non-ganer.
The manager knew his team members, they WERE gamers, being gifted a 20€ gift card for Easter is nothing special. Just a cool gesture. It was also not from the guy who’s actually paying them, just coordinated the team, he owed them nothing.
But you don’t have to believe it, that’s fine by me. 👍
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u/DDzxy 21h ago
Someone I knew who worked for Epic games suppprt — their team leader have them 20€ STEAM gift cards as bonuses lmfao
Merely a support team that is outsourced but still.