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No RIF'd Employees Need Apply For Microsoft External Staff Jobs For 6 Months
theodp (442580) writes So, what does Microsoft do for an encore after laying off 18,000 employees with a hilariously bad memo? Issue another bad memo — Changes to Microsoft Network and Building Access for External Staff — "to introduce a new policy [retroactive to July 1] that will better protect our Microsoft IP and confidential information." How so? "The policy change affects [only] US-based external staff (including Agency Temporaries, Vendors and Business Guests)," Microsoft adds, "and limits their access to Microsoft buildings and the Microsoft corporate network to a period of 18 months, with a required six-month break before access may be granted again." Suppose Microsoft feels that's where the NSA went wrong with Edward Snowden? And if any soon-to-be-terminated Microsoft employees hope to latch on to a job with a Microsoft external vendor to keep their income flowing, they best think again. "Any Microsoft employee who separated from Microsoft on or after July 1, 2014," the kick-em-while-they're-down memo explains, "will be required to take a minimum 6-month break from access between the day the employee separates from Microsoft and the date when the former employee may begin an assignment as an External Staff performing services for Microsoft."
Likely not just to prevent leaks, but also to prevent any contractors from being reclassified as employees.
Yeah, but "it's only business" purposefully ignores the fact that these are people, people that have kids in many cases. It also overlooks the fact that these people helped them make money hand over fist. Yeah, they are selling shitty products to Microsoft zombies in a lot of cases, but they still are people.
Yeah... they make the company money. Nothing is owed to them. Let the fuckers starve. Welcome to the US corporate jungle, where you're not allowed up in the tree to get a banana while the monkeys in suits shit on you.
but fuck my state regulator even harder for making it impossible for me to help my friends as my old boss struggles to keep an old startup afloat.
Indeed. This is the dark side of government regulation that liberals never talk about, the petty bureaucrat standing on the shoes of the real entrepreneurs and small business people who create the actual jobs and value in the economy and pay that piss-ant bureaucrat's salary. Of course they argue that without regulation we wouldn't be able to tie our own shoes, but I say that's a load of bull. For every story you hear about regulations doing something good, there are hundreds more small businesses with a horror story to tell of businesses destroyed, dreams crushed and employees cast back into unemployment. Who do the bureaucrats suppose is going to pay their pensions if there aren't middle class people left to pay taxes? Maybe they should think about that the next time they decide to stick it to a small business just because they can. The retirement they save might be their own.
Of course it does, but just try to get an idiot liberal to understand that. These are the same people who still believe that there is an "employer part" of social security without stopping to consider that wages are lower than they otherwise would be because of this and other hidden costs of employment. They just don't get it when it comes to economics. Their hearts may be soft but unfortunately that softness seems to extend to their heads as well.