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Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love
theodp writes "Despite layoffs and a blip in earnings, the Chicago Trib reports that Microsoft's summer interns still enjoy the VIP treatment. Although there were 20% fewer of them this year than last, still 85% of the interns are offered full-time jobs. In addition to being paid $4,600-$6,000 a month, a housing stipend, and relocation costs for the summer, the 600 or so Microsoft apprentices enjoyed other perks — such as a police escort to speed their way to a private museum party where they screened the most recent Harry Potter movie and were given a free Xbox 360. 'You feel like royalty to be escorted by police,' said Joriz De Guzman, an intern working toward his MBA at Wharton. BTW, before he got mixed up with those MBA-types, De Guzman earned some fame as the Doogie Howser of computer science."
And bugs get splattered by windshields except at MS where they get sold as features. Bill Gates got to be the richest man in the world by selling poison.
Fuck him, fuck everyone who works for him and fuck everyone who defends him.
First - the half-assed open source initiative Second - why your Open Source application gets dumped for proprietary Third - Interns at Microsoft make more money visiting museums than you do banging your head on the table 20x7 I'm calling it again, Microsoft' press team is playing out a carefully orchestrated agenda to beat open source software. Why would Sam Ramji leave Microsoft just at this moment? and for Cloud Computing the most unsuccessful technology of the year? Something tells me he knew what was at hand. Stay tuned for more Microsoft brainwashing you. Sad part is, this post will probably get modded down like crazy.
Or is this whole story a joke of some kind? Why would M$ treat interns this well?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Given this is some PR piece, it is still telling what nuggets are exposed (in the summary, which is more than enough for this reader). Let's see here:
WTF?! Yeah, who doesn't know that "special feeling" you get with a police car on your tail for the last 20 minutes of a post-midnight excursion. Last time that happened to me (in Cupertino of all places, go figure), I didn't really think "yeah, this is just like Microsoft", but maybe next time that's what will be on my mind!
WTF?!**2 [0] Can't feature a tech type, since Google is more attractive to those. Can't feature a visionary, since those tend to require freedom (to have visions and, you know, innovate). Besides, those would also find a better siren song from Google. What's left? Larval parasitic bureaucrat-functionary types (i.e., the MBA crowd), that's what. Possibily to ameliorate this obvious weakness, there's a nice non-WASP name thrown in the mix.
Feh. Must you consort with minors?
Thanks, Microsoft. Now, I need to go wash my keyboard...
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[0] (props to Backus -- he did have the balls to dis von Neumann, after all)
So did Al Capone. And so do all of these Colombian gentlemen in the "import-export" business...
You see, contrary to what some "free market" fetishists would have you believe, "giving people jobs" or "making piles of money" are by themselves insufficient criteria to evaluate worthiness of some individuals' activity.
This "advice" only works if the entity you are advising to "stop buying" from does not hold a de-facto monopoly in some area of the marketplace. Otherwise it is akin to advising some poor shmuck to "stop eating" if he "doesn't like buying stuff from the company store with his company scrip"