Microsoft Infected by Virus

Vicissidude writes "It appears that a Microsoft worker returning from overseas brought back a case of Measles with them. In fact, they had been back, working, and spreading the disease at Microsoft and other places in Redmond for at least four days prior to being discovered. Somehow I do not think that Microsoft included in their cost-benefit analysis of offshoring the potential wide-spread infection of their company. Perhaps they should include that risk in the future."

Comments

Re:What a ridiculous beatup

[Madd Scientist]

just about as good as *I* can spot a karma whore.

Re:Is TFA really a troll?

[syousef]

calm down there. You're basically advocating /. censor anything remotely controvertial. I doubt that a majority of /. users would like that.

Actually this is an interesting take on the cost of outsourcing in general. I see this as a valid point, and not one that I'd considered before: what happens when an employee brings a disease into the country? Who wears the costs? What's the civil/criminal liability of putting pressure on someone to come work if they're sick. Are existing safeguards enough etc. etc. etc.

The problem here is people don't know how to have a healthy discussion and separate discussion from personal attack.

I can deal with a lot

[dedazo]

• I can deal with the 12-year olds and their technically challenged invective "OMFG M$ Winblows BSOD'ed 23 times T0DAY!! LOLOLOL!!!1" bullshit.
• I can deal with the insightful-sounding blogorrheic shallow crap regurgitated from the darkest depths of "teh interweb" for the sake of a chuckle from the peanut gallery and a shitload of ad impressions for OSDN.
• I can deal with the hysterical flamebait shit that gets posted day in and day out that later turns out to be "oops, here's a three line correction in Slashback three days later" factually wrong.
• I can deal with the smug, hippy liberal "we are so cool, we know better and you suck" unchecked editorializing.
• I can deal with the nutcases who run their "Technology as a religion 101" courses at the sound of clapping and +5 mods from retard fanboys.

I can deal with a bunch of stuff, mostly because developers.slashdot.org seems to keep me informed about what's happening out there beyond my normal areas of interest and work. And of course, it's all free.

But this - this is as bad as it gets. What, filing it under "Biotech" and the "outsourcing" bullshit addendum were supposed to legitimize this piece of crap?

I don't blame the asshole who submitted this, no. It's the asshole that posted it. And little by little this place is becoming the running joke of the tech world.