CEO asks IT intern to use their own car to move company property against policy, intern has him brush up on the company handbook: ‘If anything gets damaged I am toast’

You know what they say: Separate business and pleasure.

It's essential to keep your personal life and material belongings separate from your work sphere for many reasons. Some coworkers might try to snag a ride with you under the guise of a collective carpool, and others might see your car as an opportunity to do things illegal and against work policy. At the end of the day, it's your vehicle on the line when you put it in someone else's hands, and the last thing you want is for a higher-up to pull a fast one on you because you didn't stand up for yourself.

CEOs and other C-suite executives rely on their subordinates' fear so that they can continue acting out of turn without repercussions. The CEO in the next story attempts to take advantage of an IT intern, who is at the lowest level of the corporate ladder. This speaks to the desperate lengths that many higher-ups will go to just to exert as much power over someone as humanly possible.

Company policy states that personal vehicles cannot be used for work-related excursions, and that includes the transfer of company property (which is what the CEO requested). So, the intern decides to show them how the rules actually work, and the CEO gets his. Scroll to read.

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