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Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo
christor writes "Microsoft has fired a full-time temp employee after it discovered that the employee posted in his blog a photo and story concerning Microsoft's purchase of what looks to be around 18 G5s.
Check out the blog entry, Even Microsoft wants G5s, and the one that follows it. Microsoft fired the blogger, despite an offer to take the posting down. Note that this is not a free speech issue, even though the blog was hosted on a non-company server, because Microsoft is not, yet, the government. But it does present several other interesting issues, including that of the trade-off between the bad publicity that comes from the firing and whatever bad results follow when employees feel free to post such things."
Even Microsoft wants G5s
October 23, 2003 @ 10:34 PM | Macintosh
It looks like somebody over in Microsoft land is getting some new toys...
I took this shot on the way into work on the loading dock (MSCopy, the print shop I work in, is in the same building as MS's shipping and receiving). Three palettes of Dual 2.0Ghz G5's on their way in to somewhere deep in the bowels of Redmond. Hopefully they're all in good condition when they arrive -- the boxes are slick enough that a few of them took a bit of a tumble (you can see them back in the truck)!
Perhaps Microsoft didn't want anyone to know that they hadn't been on the ball with G5 development until now,and this guy was exposing them.
Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps they waited to buy the G5s until Panther was out, which was probably a good move; the Longhorn team had already seen Jaguar several times by now and where fresh out of ideas.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
The simple fact of the matter was this guy was a temp. Microsoft did not fire him, and he has absolutely NO job security. I worked as a temp doing a Y2K upgrade for Ci**bank, and they have the right to dismiss anybody at anytime for any reason. That's just one of the many fun aspects of being a temp.