Cards Against Humanity Buys a Paid Vacation for the Chinese Factory Workers Who Print Their Cards

In November, Mike Dang wrote about Cards Against Humanity’s decision to use their Black Friday sales profits—which the game company earned by inviting customers to “buy nothing from us for $5” — to give their employees individual $4,185 windfalls.

Now, Cards Against Humanity has gone even further into the holiday spirit: fans who purchased their Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah learned that on the sixth day of Hanukkah, Cards Against Humanity “gave our overseas printer a week of paid vacation.”

As Cards Against Humanity explains:

Our printer in China has grown with us from a small business to a huge operation, and it’s important to us to go above and beyond our obligation to the workers who make our game. While our factory provides excellent wages and working conditions, Chinese working conditions are generally more strict. This year, we used the money from one day of our holiday promotion to give our workers something very uncommon in China: a paid vacation.

The printer didn’t have any formal procedures for paid vacations, so we bought 100% of the factory’s capacity and paid them to produce nothing for a week, giving the people who make Cards Against Humanity an unexpected chance to visit family or do whatever they pleased.

If you follow that link above, you can see photos of Chinese employees and their families as well as descriptions of how they spent their vacation time:

My little nephew was born during my vacation. My family all got together to celebrate. The factory has been really busy, especially with the move to the new factory. The environment was much improved, and the employee morale became very delightful!

I am equally delighted, and I hope you are too.

Also: when the $4,185 windfall announcement came out, Mike asked what we’d do with a $4,185 windfall. (I’d save half, and put half towards debt. Then someone would say “what about charity?” and I’d say “oh, for sure,” and take 10% out of savings and put it towards charitable donations.)

In that spirit: what would you do with a surprise week of paid vacation?

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