Intern quits after company pressures him to surrender NVIDIA graphics card he won in raffle

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A company intern in Shanghai resigned after his employer insisted he surrender an NVIDIA graphics card he’d won in a lottery.

Everything has a catch, and one intern learned that the hard way. He was sent by his company to an NVIDIA event in Suzhou, China on November 14th – with all travel costs covered – but there was an unexpected downside.

I was reading about the event, and it turns out one of the interns won a really awesome prize! They entered a raffle and actually won an NVIDIA RTX 5060 graphics card – it’s worth around 3,000 yuan, which is about $422. Pretty cool, huh? It’s a shame the local news didn’t mention which company they worked for, though.

Later that day, a coworker told the intern that the company’s finance department found out about his raffle win. They insisted he hand over the graphics card, arguing that the company had paid for his trip and therefore owned it.

I thought I’d told everyone about it, but it turns out I hadn’t. I just figured my teammate was being a bit envious, but that feeling wasn’t going to last. Things were about to change.

Tech intern’s NVIDIA raffle win turns into corporate controversy

So, word eventually got back to his company about the graphics card, and they asked him to turn it in. Apparently, it turned into a whole thing with lots of meetings with the higher-ups, who kept pressuring him to just give the card up. It sounds like they really wanted it!

Even though his bosses kept trying to convince him to relinquish the award, the intern wouldn’t give it up. They then started suggesting he might want to find a new job.

Not wanting to give in to their demands, the intern quit, taking the graphics card with him.

The story quickly spread across social media, first in China and then internationally, leading to a widespread discussion about whether it’s right for companies to require employees to hand over prizes won during company-sponsored trips.

According to Chinese lawyers quoted by Fast Technology, who owns items won in company lotteries or promotions depends on how they were obtained. If won through chance, the employee owns them. If won as part of their job, the company does.

A lawyer explained that because the lottery was open to individual audience members and the winner was chosen randomly, the winning card belonged to that person, not the business, unless a contract specifically said entering the lottery was a job requirement.

Okay, so this is a crazy story I just saw online. Apparently, a guy in Mongolia literally laid on a mattress for over a day – 33 hours, to be exact – and won around $422 for it! It’s going viral all over the internet right now, and I can totally see why.

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2025-12-01 22:50