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Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads?
mr100percent writes "Microsoft has reportedly moved to prohibit employees in its Sales, Marketing, Services, IT, and Operations Group (SMSG) from using company funds to purchase any products produced by Apple. The company had already barred staffers from using expense allocations for competing smartphone platforms, however the new guidelines explicitly note that Macs and iPads have been added to the list. 'Within SMSG we are putting in place a new policy that says that Apple products (Mac & iPad) should not be purchased with company funds,' an alleged letter distributed to staff reads."
... Reverse Engineering department in that ban. I wonder what's up with that omission. Oh wait.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Cpu6502 will no doubt rush through the ranks as a manager because he has the usual manager capability to confuse the disease with the symptom.
Car companies often have the parking lot filled with the companies cars and NOT because of any guidelines (cars are after all privately bought by the people in production) but because the employees feel connected to the company and are proud of what they produce.
MS clearly is totally unable to inspire loyalty in its employees to feel proud of what they produce and want to show it. You can then put out a guideline forcing people to show fake pride but then you are just fighting the symptom, not the disease. If MS can't even build products good enough that people who want to work for you want to have the products... they got no chance in hell of selling to the rest of us. Eat your own dog food and if you got to beat the god to get it to eat, you failed.
The next stupid thing Cpu6502 says, is that this is all the same as giving staff a discount for the companies products... duh... does anyone really think that an MS employee buying a MS product with MS funds pays full price?
This is NOT just MS employees choosing to buy a rival companies product with their own money (already bad enough) but them buying another companies product for company use with company funds.
It would as if DAF trucks bought Ford trucks to deliver its trucks.
And you can then write a snooty little note that they shouldn't do that OR you can hold a very urgent and deep enquiry into why this is happening. Why are MS products so fucking bad that people risk their job promotion changes or at least incoming chairs for work related productivity tools?
If you have a restaurant and all your employees go outside to lunch, would you ban them, or test the food? Choice 1: Congrats, you are a manager. Here is your MBA and a million dollar bonus... Choice 2??? Loser.
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sorry but M$ neds to be referred to as M$ even though they are poor now.
just so we remember what an asshole of a company M$ is. not because we are 15.
MS is reserved for http://www.msaustralia.org.au/, http://mssociety.ca/en/, http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ and http://www.nationalmssociety.org/index.aspx. Get over it already. M$ is for for the whiney softies and MS is for multiple sclerosis. Not that I mind the complaints because every time I see it it gives me the opportunity to promote organisation that are of direct interest to geeks and nerds due the impact of the disease upon our most valuable asset our minds.
So M$ and MSN are the same company (although they should really break up in order to give MSN a creative surge).
As for M$ banning the purchase of Apple products with company funds, it's only logical and really doesn't even rate a mention. In fact M$ should pretty much demand free product from Apple in order to continue development of M$ Software for Apple products. You know, straight up demand, Dear Apple you will supply 25 million dollars worth of Apple hardware (servers, desktops, phones, tablets, operating system) per annum or efforts to develop software for the base will cease and that whilst harsh is logical and acceptable.
M$ should not pay for Apple hardware or software in order to spend more money to develop software for it in order to 'LOSE SALES'.
I can't really understand why M$ marketdroids get so bent out of shape, especially considering the importance of the $ symbol in M$ basic, the use of $ in M$ is far more subtle the M$ marketdroids could ever understand (I tried to use M$ as much as possible in this comment are you eyes bleeding yet ;D ).
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