Employee Discounts

OK, I don’t remember exactly who started this, but some car manufacturer decided they were going to offer their employee discount to the general public. Now every car manufacturer in the country, and probably a few outside of it, is saying the same thing. You don’t see a car commercial any more without hearing how they now give the employee discount to everyone.

Well this is bullshit if you ask me (which you didn’t). If everyone gets the employee discount, then it is no longer an employee discount. Employees are now paying the same price for cars as the general public. Employees, therefore, are getting no discount.

So, what these guys have done is taken away an employee benefit and spun it into a marketing strategy. That’s pretty amazing, really. They must think their emplyees are pretty fucking stupid to not notice.