TIME: Employees Get Tattoo of Company Logo For Pay Raise

[Omaha Steve]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/02/employees-get-tattoo-of-company-logo-for-pay-raise/

By Kristene QuanMay 02, 2013

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Would you get inked with the company logo for a pay raise?

Talk about company loyalty.

A New York-based real estate firm Rapid Realty has offered its 800 employees a 15% pay raise if they tattoo the company’s logo onto their bodies, and the offer is snowballing, according to CBS New York. So far, nearly 40 employees accepted the challenge, AOL Jobs reported.

(MORE: The Rise of Tattoo Remorse: Heavy Cost to Erase What’s Often an Impulse Decision) http://business.time.com/2011/09/08/the-rise-of-tattoo-remorse-heavy-cost-to-erase-whats-often-an-impulse-decision/#ixzz2S0svPpoG

There were apparently no size or location restrictions for the logo tattoos. For instance, Brooke Koropatnick told CBS New York that she got hers behind the ear.

Employees who agreed to get inked said getting a substantially larger paycheck was motivation enough to get a tattoo. In a video, Brooklyn-based broker Adam Altman said the ink would be a reminder to work harder. “I don’t see myself going anywhere, and if I have it on my arm, it’ll force me to keep going and working hard [sic],” Altman said.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. A guy in my company tattooed the company logo on his ankle, in three colors

Just to win points in a treasure hunt.

His team won.

All I did was shave the company logo on my scalp, which didn't earn as many points...

[lunasun]

2. owners brand cattle

In a video, Brooklyn-based broker Adam Altman said the ink would be a reminder to work harder. “I don’t see myself going anywhere, and if I have it on my arm, it’ll force me to keep going and working hard ,” Altman said.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Cattle branding is what came to my mind also.

My definitive answer would be to tell the boss to go fuck themself.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Disgusting.

Slaves were branded too.

I have no loyalty to any company.

Rapid Realty can drop dead!

[Mnemosyne]

5. Chilling, imo. nt

[unblock]

6. religious lawsuit waiting to happen

given that judaism, at least, has a religious objection to tattoos.

offering a path to a pay raise that effectively discriminates against observant jews would not go over well in court.

[MichiganVote]

7. Disgusting.

[Blue Owl]

8. The Dwight Schrute level of company loyalty

n/t

[MotherPetrie]

9. That should be illegal