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Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ones-we-never-hear-about dept.

coolball writes "For those of us that have worked as a contractor (a-dash or orange badge or whatever), Seattle PI's 'Microsoft's 'orange badge' culture gets forum' article caught my eye this morning. He talks about OrangeBadges.com and Contractor's International Network, two forums that have sprung up as a meeting place (cyber & meat) for current/past/future contractors of the empire. If you have been a Microsoftee, then you would laugh out loud in recognition some of the tales he relates."

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  1. Wow, I want to be a contract worker for MSFT! by garcia · · Score: 4, Funny

    two forums that have sprung up as a meeting place (cyber & meat) for current/past/future contractors of the empire. (emphasis mine)

    Ummm?! Sounds like you get a whole lot more when you are a contractor for Microsoft ;)

  2. Orange Badges? by MonkeyCookie · · Score: 5, Funny

    We don't need no stinking orange badges!

  3. You're so punny! by FearTheFrail · · Score: 2, Funny
    He doesn't want to unionize them, because they function better when they are ions.


    Or maybe he's interested in only making anion.
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  4. A badge is for life, not just for contracting. by davro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone with an orange badge should be forced to wear it for life !

  5. In Soviet Russia... by big_groo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Badges orange you!

  6. In Ukraine... by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Russia badges orange you!

    No, you are thinking of Ukraine.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution

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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  7. Re:Torture theory by Titus+B.+Otch · · Score: 1, Funny

    shoot him? why? I say drug him, tie him down, and paint his entire body with every color from the rainbow. That way, when he wakes up, he'll think he just got tortured by Leprachauns for stealing their rainbow gold!

  8. You really only need to know one... by Chyeld · · Score: 2, Funny

    In America, the only really important color you need to remember is Green. The rest are just trimming.

  9. Re:Why is this news? Contracting is the same all o by Divide+By+Zero · · Score: 2, Funny

    The big secret is that the contractors do ALL the work while the full-time employees go to endless meetings and lunch.

    Get off Slashdot and get back to work!

    I got a two-hour lunch, then meeting, then going home early...

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    Dare to Hope. Prepare to be Disappointed.
  10. Re:Orange badges: are they still called "dash tras by susano_otter · · Score: 2, Funny

    His unwillingness to work with contractors was on his review the next cycle, and he "spent more time with his family".

    Is that a euphemism, like "sleeps with the fishes"?

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    Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.

  11. Re:I was once an orange badge... by swb · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't get over the deep irony of the gay rights group discriminating against you.