$1000 to quit your job.

[jackofallgeeks]

So Here
is an interesting idea. The online shoe shore Zappos apparently sees it's
main service as keeping it's customers happy, and as a way of ensuring
quality customer support they offer new employees $1000 to quit after
their first month. If you think about it, it's a pretty great idea. If you
don't like your job you're not going to do it well; you can just take the
money and run, because if you don't want to be there they don't want you
there. But on the flip side, if you like your job enough to pass up $1000
to keep doing it, you'd think you'd be motivated to do it well. Zappos also
doesn't do a lot of things other customer support lines do, like hold to a
script or try to limit call times, and their operators are actually
empowered to do what's needed to make the customer happy. That's pretty
awesome, and as I hate shopping for shoes anyways, maybe I'll give this
place a try.

Comments

[elizardaa.livejournal.com]

I have had good experiences with them! I have friends/coworkers who would swear by them. If it wouldn't lead to crazy shoe excess (which Chris would claim is already occuring) I would shop their more often, honestly. :D

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

See, girls get all the fun with shoes. A guy is really only allowed a pair of tennis shoes, a pair (possibly two) of dress shoes, and maybe some sandals. Some of the more 'metropolitan' guys try and match girls in quanity, but they're all boring shoes. My brother found some rather interesting shoes with flames on the side, but he's an oddity; he really belongs back in the British Punk era, I think.

Girls though: wow. They get to have all kinds of fun with their shoes! They get sneakers and shoes and sandal and boots and strappy high-heals -- and while I can't quite get why girls wear the things and then complain how torturous they are (and I'd never be able to walk in a pair myself; I've no idea how you girls do it!), they are definitely attractive and interesting and I can understand the appeal. (One friend once told me she likes heals, especially long ones, because she just loves walking on her tip-toes. This still makes me grin to think about).

The same goes for clothes, too; girls get all in interesting outfits, and guys are just... dull. But when a man starts talking about "cute clothes" people begin to wonder, so I'll stop here. :p

[otakulk.livejournal.com]

My friend Pete just suggested I buy some shoes from them. I'll let you know how it works out.