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Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut
theodp writes "In an email sent Friday evening to its Microsoft temp workers, Volt Workforce Solutions asked the techies to 'vote' to agree to a 10% pay cut. From the email: 'We want to support you in continuing your assignment at Microsoft and respectfully ask that you respond by going to the upper left hand corner of this email under the "Vote" response option and select, "Accept'" by close of business Tuesday, March 3, 2009. By accepting you agree to the [-10%] pay adjustment in your pay rate.' Microsoft managed to keep the Feb. 20 email detailing plans to slash rates from leaking while it pitched its Elevate America initiative at the 2009 Winter Meeting of the National Governors Association, touting Microsoft skills as just the ticket to economic recovery."
You can vote anyway you want, the only catch is that there is only one choice.
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
Instead of Yes/No the options should have been, in keeping with Microsoft software licensing tradition, Accept/Cancel.
Conservation of angular momentum makes the world go round.
what?
would you mind re-wording that a little; or at least using some punctuation?
"If for any reason you're not satisfied with our service, I hate you."
Can't do that. You need to pay top dollar for the best talent. Without the best talent you wouldn't get such market winners such as the Zune or the highly profitable X-box, soon to drive Apple, Sony and Nintendo out of the market.
Just think of where we'd be today without Microsoft Bob or Windows ME. Or Vista.
Top pay=top talent=best leadership=best products ever. :)
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
I thought Microsoft only hired via the H1-B visa scam?
There are alternatives, but not on one of them will you get +5 Insightful for bitching about the story and calling the readers 'fucktards'.
The OP indicates to me that Slashdot is working very well.
He's obviously taking about working for U.S. workers who work for working foreign companies who do their work outside of their own working work zones in the U.S.
Jeez, have you ever even worked a job before?
Well, you could try life.
Disclaimer:
Life might have (severe) emotional impact and can harm your health including but not limited to depression, skin tissue damage, loss of hair, loss of bodily functions and death.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
"Microsoft, as a trailblazer in the information technology industry,"
"Whooat?" I thought... "trailblazer?" I thought most of what ms did was light the initial fire in some cases, buy and shut down in many cases, and FUD/run out of business in many more caes.
(cue the off-topic/flamebait/troll-markers against me...)
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
American workers take a 25% haircut and become competitive again.
I chopped off my hair to 3/4th of its length, but that didn't help me be competitive.
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