[ale] Working for Bill

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 11:38:15 EDT 2006


Gee, I haven't poisoned anyone's children in weeks. Of course, workin' for
Time-Warner I never really  know what orders my Dread Fascist International
Corporate Masters may pass down to me next.

Y'all are getting perilously close to Godwin here.

-- CHS


On 4/21/06, Chris Farris <chris at vitalpowers.com> wrote:
>
> Having read the article I think its in MSFT's best interest for it to
> remain public. It gives people interested in working there an honest
> appraisal of life at Microsoft. Given the high costs of hiring and
> training I'd rather people I hire know what they are about to get into
> rather than show up expecting all candy and roses.
>
> Thats said, I wouldn't be surprised if some of those worthless
> middle-managers he trashed don't come after him for retribution.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 10:52 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > >> Charles Shapiro wrote:
> > >>> Huh. Very interesting essay. (
> > >>>
> http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_microsoft.html ).
> > >>
> > >> I wonder if they'll fire him for blogging?
> > >
> > > Why do you wonder that?  Just curious.
> >
> > Seems like many large companies were firing people for
> > blogging about work recently. It got some news coverage
> > last year I think. Perhaps Microsoft encourages that
> > sort of thing? But criticizing your employer to the
> > void seems like a good way to get fired. :) Or has he
> > since moved on?
> >
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