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PayPal chief really, really wants workers to use PayPal
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/02/13/paypal-chief-really-really-wants-workers-to-use-paypal/PayPal President David Marcus sent out a sternly worded email Monday to his staff in San Jose, the online payments company’s headquarters, telling them that he’s observed workers who have committed the egregious sins of forgetting their PayPal passwords and not installing the PayPal app. The memo was leaked to VentureBeat.
“PayPal It, our program enabling you to refer businesses that don’t accept PayPal has seen the least amount of leads in *absolute* and relative terms vis-a-vis ALL other locations,” Marcus wrote. “Offices with under 100 employees beat us by an order of magnitude (total PayPal it leads to date: 126,862, San Jose leads: 984…).”
He continued, “As a matter of fact, it’s been brought to my attention that when testing paying with mobile at Cafe 17 last week, some of you refused to install the PayPal app (!!?!?!!), and others didn’t even remember their PayPal password. That’s unacceptable to me, and the rest of my team, everyone at PayPal should use our products where available. That’s the only way we can make them better, and better.”
In other PayPal offices, employees apparently “hack into Coke machines to make them accept PayPal because they feel passionately about using PayPal everywhere,” Marcus wrote. “I don’t see these behaviors here in San Jose.”
“PayPal It, our program enabling you to refer businesses that don’t accept PayPal has seen the least amount of leads in *absolute* and relative terms vis-a-vis ALL other locations,” Marcus wrote. “Offices with under 100 employees beat us by an order of magnitude (total PayPal it leads to date: 126,862, San Jose leads: 984…).”
He continued, “As a matter of fact, it’s been brought to my attention that when testing paying with mobile at Cafe 17 last week, some of you refused to install the PayPal app (!!?!?!!), and others didn’t even remember their PayPal password. That’s unacceptable to me, and the rest of my team, everyone at PayPal should use our products where available. That’s the only way we can make them better, and better.”
In other PayPal offices, employees apparently “hack into Coke machines to make them accept PayPal because they feel passionately about using PayPal everywhere,” Marcus wrote. “I don’t see these behaviors here in San Jose.”
This is going on right across the street from me. Sucks to be them!
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We had a major PayPal meltdown here at DU a few years ago when we tried to use it for a fundraising drive for a DUer who had cancer. They blocked his account for some stupid reason. 
