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New Reality Series: Be the Next Microsoft Employee

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theodp writes "No, Steve Ballmer doesn't swap spit with contestants in a hot tub. Nor does he present a rose to each contestant he wishes to keep at the end of each episode. But the contestants in Microsoft's Be the Next Microsoft Employee web series, which is being billed as Top Chef for Geeks, do live together in a luxury waterfront home as they compete for the chance to interview for a job with the software giant. So, what's next from Microsoft? The Real Housewives of Medina?"

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  1. O, Hell No! I'm GETTIN that interview! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any of you skinny bitches stands in my way better be ready for some hair pullin!!

    1. Re:O, Hell No! I'm GETTIN that interview! by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

      So Mr. Anderson, you say you want to work for us. I only have one question:

      How well can you dodge chairs?

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    2. Re:O, Hell No! I'm GETTIN that interview! by Thundaaa+Struk · · Score: 3, Funny

      I hope this show fails....who wants to see grown up IT nerds arguing over whether Windows is better than Linux. Arguments over who stole my limited edition Han Solo figurine......fights breaking out when to many Red Bulls are consumed without a proper meal beforehand. Confessional video sessions that involve crying because they didn't lock their laptop when they went to take their asthma medication and someone went in and changed their background to Hello Kitty. The season ender would involve controversy when someones computers get hit by a zero day vulnerability because they didn't have to time to download 1.5GB of updates that Microsoft had recently pushed out on Patch Tuesday.

  2. And coming up next year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Season two will be titled "Be the last Microsoft employee"

  3. Really??? by Peristaltic · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're going to live together in a luxury waterfront home as they compete for the chance to interview for Microsoft?

    I'd rather compete for a chance at North Korean citizenship.

    1. Re:Really??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... or to eat.

      That's the theme of the North Korean game show "Meal or No Meal".

    2. Re:Really??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Thank you, Sheldon.

  4. Spoiler alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Episode 3 will feature the chair throwing contest, Episode 4 the run-around-the-stage-like-you-just-snorted-two-lines-of-coke, the final episode will have the remaining contestants try to convince the audience why they prefer the Metro interface on their 3-monitor setup over the regular desktop; the only rule is that they're not allowed to laugh.

  5. Re:So unfair by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windowless cubicle at Microsoft?

    That's too bad. I can't believe they make you run DOS!

  6. Winners escape by vlm · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL in this reality TV show the winners are the ones who escape.

    There was a cheesy "human hunting" reality TV show awhile back, where dudes in matrix style men in black suits chased contestants around and tried to catch them, it may be something like that. If you didn't get captured in 30 minutes by the MIB then you "won". It was pretty intensely FOX network style, all arguing and yelling instead of cooperating, probably because if the contestants cooperated like a US infantry squad they'd have easily wasted the MIB. I don't recall the name.

    The point of the reminisce is getting caught by guys in suits leads to a SERE like cubical environment?

    I would watch just to see poor editing, maybe a contestant pulls out a iphone or an android phone. That would be funny.

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  7. And the theme song is... by Howard+Beale · · Score: 3, Funny

    Steve, Steve
    Steve of the Ballmer,
    A guy who has no hair.
    (Ahhhhhhhh)
    Watch out for that chair.

    Steve, Steve
    Steve of the Ballmer,
    Lives a life that's free.
    (Ahhhhhhhh)
    Watch out for that chair.

    When he gets in a scrape,
    he makes his escape
    with the help of his friend,
    a guy named Bill.
    Then away he'll schlep
    on his elephant Shep
    While Fella and Ursula
    Stay in step.

    Well....Steve, Steve
    Steve of the Ballmer,
    Friend to you and me.

    Watch out for that chair.