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The Microsoft Salary and Review System
f1055man writes "If you can make it through the obvious bias, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WASHTECH) has put together a revealing article on Microsoft's salary and review system. 'Internal Microsoft documents obtained by WashTech News show that Microsoft salaries have been stagnant or nudged only slightly higher over the past two years. Comments from current and former employees about the company's compensation and performance review system suggest a growing level of frustration among rank-and-file workers.'"
I agree with this not being news. I'm a /. lover, but lately the stories have been far from interesting. I go to digg.com for good tech news and /. for the entertaining comments.
I hope digg doesn't come and take over.
Slash can cope with this new pretender and better it.
I've not noticed many dupes recently (infact the latest code refresh which includes related stories shows they have put something in place), and whether its just me looking more closely or not, but articles are being posted quicker now than before (its likely because they are being submitted more often).
Its us that makes slashdot what it is, if everyone submits an interesting article as often as we see them, then slash won't be outdated.
I have for the first time subscribed to slash because I believe things are improving, I hope they continue.
liqbase
wtf does this have to do with anything. this is the gayest post today.
I submitted about 12 stories about some very cool DIY projects I've done over the last year or so.
* Replacing my trucks PCM/TCM with a computer.
* Converting my speedo to a plasma display.
and a lot more DIY projects -- none made it to the homepage.
Last time I bother with "bettering the slashdot community"
The editors are too busy taking checks from Microsoft to pipe about origami or whatever they're calling the POS portable they've made. I'm starting to use Digg more often. At least a few of my projects have been promoted to the homepage. On slashdot, I've submitted 86 articles -- which not one has ever made it on the homepage. Guess there's not room for my stuff when they're busy posting dupes.
You're ignoring the "editor" that must approve the article. I submit interesting links when I find them. Most of the time, they're rejected ... and something that's not as interesting makes front page instead.
Slashdot is a bunch of links that the editors want you to see. Slashdot is a few selected people deciding what posts are informative and what are trolls. Digg is a bunch of links that the readers want to see. The readers make digg what it is.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
when you have Free Open Source Software that's written for FREE and
by the way no one should ever have to pay for anything because information is Meant to be FREE>