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Balmer Vows to Kill Google
An anonymous reader writes "Probably due to the Microsoft suit against Google over human resources, some very heated exchanges have turned up in some court documents. Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer has apparently
vowed to kill Internet search leader Google, according to documents filed in the increasingly bitter battle between the rivals." From the article: "At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just tell me it's not Google,'' Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google. 'At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office,' Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. 'I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google.' Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell."
Discuss.
And First Post.
Kill the rabbit, kill the rabbit...
That the CEO of Microsoft is a calm and collective guy. With good management come good software. I am glad that 90% of the worlds computers are running software by responsible and rational managers.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It comes as something of a surprise that Steve Ballmer doesn't know how to spell the word "fuck".
Or maybe "f***ing" is the poster's way of representing Ballmer's dribbling, shouting, flobbing, ranting, malsonorous splange of words laughingly called his voice.
Nice man.
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I dont know if I would threaten anyone who was Deeply involved with the Evil that is (or can i safely say was(please?)) Novell.... Ex Novell Admin 3,4,5 and 6.... Recovering daily through OSS therapy....
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I see that he has remembered the "We will bury you" line without having remembered the fate of the utterer which he is likely to emulate in some near future.
two men enter, one man leaves
two men enter, one man leaves
TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES!
listen, jerk, this clearly unstable guy has armies of "developers, developers, developers!" standing by ready to crush anything he doesn't like. intead of attempting to help prop up this man's onviously twisted tyranny infomred by his unhinged world view, you should be using your lofty powers as a slashdotter to bring him down.
we have hundreds of thousands of socially mal-adjusted virgins at our fingertips i say we pool respources and attack microsft this weekend unless they have a whole bunch of females stockpiled at the microsft campus nothing can stop us!
Steve Ballmer can kill anyone he wants! Steve Ballmer throws chairs ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. This guy is so crazy and awesome that he flips out ALL the time. I heard that Steve Ballmer was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon Ballmer killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw Steve Ballmer totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
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Yup...
The scene was more like this:
Balmer: 'I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google.'
BillG: YEAH!
Balmer: Then I'm going to take this frikkin chair, smash his face with it, and lick the blood off the ring.
BillG: Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Watcha gonna dooooo....
Balmer: BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M REALLY PUMPED UP ABOUT!?!?!
BillG: Oooooh Yeah!
Balmer: I just saved a boatload of money by switching to Geico.
(Running on excercise machine)
BillG: You can dooo it!!!
Assuming that the chair-throwing and the mindset it implies are true... whose stock do you buy or sell?
Google?... Microsoft?... (OfficeMax?)
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"Say hello to muh lil' chair!"
"OH SHIT, THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HOSPITAL!"
At least he's passionate about his job. That's more than you can say about a lot of executives. What's wrong with wanting to crush the competition? That's what capitalism's all about.
True. I believe a whole chapter of The Wealth of Nations was devoted to the importance of chair throwing.
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Does this count as a death threat?
In addition he did say he would bury the person at Google.
I think that just maybe the police should get involved. Death threats should be taken seriously, and doubly so by people that are obviously not on an even keel.
I think society needs protecting from potential killers like Ballmer.
(yes, this isn't meant in a totally serious way!)
Imagine, if you will, Dr. Claw, banging on his desk, alarming his cat:
I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME GOOGLE! NEXT TIME!!!
I think Balmer is violating Nintendo's Insanity Patent.
Overheard in the Google boardroom --
Balmer: I've done far worse than kill you, Google. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive. Buried alive.
Google: BAAAAALLLLLMER!!!!!!
Sure Jobs will get equally angry under the right circumstances but the OP was trying to say Microsoft doesn't have a class - even when making a way for his anger/emotion flow - Ballmer chose to throw a chair.
Jobs would have uttered something equally quotable in a similar situation as the "Microsoft has - No class." !! Now that's called "classy" outburst of emotions - not the cheap throw the chair type.
You modded this guy up because he saw Spiderman?
We aren't all hicks, not all of us can sleep with family.
The new iTantrum chair, made from highly damage resilient clear plastic and stainless steel. Because Mac users have too much style to throw ordinary furniture.
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How did it turn out?
Pretty well.
Did the boss immediately sign up for anger managment classes?
No. He tried to yell at me for walking out on him, to which I simply turned around and said "Daryl, fsck you".
Did you get a raise for being so mature?
No, I left and started my own company. Turned around, sold it, bought a house and went back to school.
Did the boss apologize and promise never to do it again?
No. Daryl was/is an asshole and is irredeemable. And since this is a response to an anonymous coward, if this is you Daryl, you still have it, don't you?
Did you suddenly become more sexually attractive to your coworkers?
Excuse me? Where did this come from? Maybe it is you Daryl, as that is just the sort of thing that you would say.
Did you get ignored?
Quite the contrary. I left and took half the company with me.
Did your career stop advancing at that job?
Yeah. I ate their lunch.
Did you get branded a scapegoat?
Hardly.
Did you get reassigned to something nasty?
If making more money is nasty, then sure.
Did you get fired?
See above.
Look, the point is that life is too short to allow yourself to be abused. By anyone. Although, people set their own priorities and if making the lease payment on your Mercedes is more important to you than standing up for yourself or others, then that is your choice. Just don't expect me to want to work with you.
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You hear about Ballmer flippin out, throwing chairs because he lost someone to Google, but what does he care? How OLD is he?
;-)
Physical age or intellectual age?
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