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My former employer, Cisco, awarded the top prize of a contest open to all employees then took the prize away because I was leaving. Should I seek legal remedy on this?
Here's the situation. Cisco ran a "Best Home Network" contest to try to identify the best home network as way to then show customers how its own employees did home networking. As a byproduct the winner gets the honorable position of having the best home network and winning the $1000 prize.
So while employed there (11 years), I entered the contest and the final winners were to be announced before I voluntarily left for another job. The contest closed and the winners were scheduled to be announced before I left. The winner was selected the day I left. The awarded me the top prize and then found I had left the company. So they contacted my former mgr, who said I should still be awarded the prize and that I left on good terms. So they decided to go ahead with it all and had scheduled interviews and the award ceremony.
But just last night I got an e-mail saying they had changed the overall winner to another person because I had left the company. But the facts are that the the contest was OVER before I left.
The contest rules NEVER stated I had to remain with Cisco. This seems highly unethical and unfair.
Should I seek some kind of legal redress? It has been quite embarrassing to tell people I had won and then to have it taken away.What is the name of your state?
What is the name of your state? California
My former employer, Cisco, awarded the top prize of a contest open to all employees then took the prize away because I was leaving. Should I seek legal remedy on this?
Here's the situation. Cisco ran a "Best Home Network" contest to try to identify the best home network as way to then show customers how its own employees did home networking. As a byproduct the winner gets the honorable position of having the best home network and winning the $1000 prize.
So while employed there (11 years), I entered the contest and the final winners were to be announced before I voluntarily left for another job. The contest closed and the winners were scheduled to be announced before I left. The winner was selected the day I left. The awarded me the top prize and then found I had left the company. So they contacted my former mgr, who said I should still be awarded the prize and that I left on good terms. So they decided to go ahead with it all and had scheduled interviews and the award ceremony.
But just last night I got an e-mail saying they had changed the overall winner to another person because I had left the company. But the facts are that the the contest was OVER before I left.
The contest rules NEVER stated I had to remain with Cisco. This seems highly unethical and unfair.
Should I seek some kind of legal redress? It has been quite embarrassing to tell people I had won and then to have it taken away.What is the name of your state?
What is the name of your state? California