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Thanks for the clarification. I don't mean to say it is perfect. But I don't judge whether America is a good place to live based on newspaper headlines -- because they are all designed to sell newspapers to Americans, not to report on the quality of life. I wanted to point out that news stories about Microsoft are most likely designed to do something other than report on the culture.
Note: with my first post I had some technical trouble previewing my response before posting. I didn't notice that some fake markup tags I wrote didn't make it in there. I meant to mark off the first bit as something purposely overly sarcastic. Even so, I don't like the tone it sets in retrospect. I apologize for that.
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Good job taking an unnamed incident, using that to assassinate the corporate culture, and still getting the post marked as "3,insightful".
I work at Microsoft and have for 7 years. I disagree with what you imply about the culture or I wouldn't still be here. I certainly agree that Microsoft acts the way a big business acts. It puts business concerns high on its list or it goes out of business. It is possible that things the company has done don't always look good. If you are referring to the contractors deal, I know a contractor who was happy to work with us for the period his contract lasted and then move on. He would have been happy to work longer as a contractor but that case got settled and he couldn't. The issue at hand from the government's perspective (as I understand it which may be wrong) is misclassification of personnel. From my side, whoopdeedoo. It looked like people were happy to be here and have jobs, and now they aren't here any more. What does that have to do with culture or how you are treated as an employee?
But my boss and his boss and all the people I know treat me and treat each other with respect. We are always looking at how we serve our users in a way that is sustainable and useful, what else can we add that both helps the user and is cost-effective so that we can stay in business and keep providing cool stuff for people. That is what I experience on a day to day basis, and that is what I define as the culture of the company *from my perspective*. And the corporate culture from my perspective is what really matters to me as an employee or potential employee.
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A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Thanks for the clarification. I don't mean to say it is perfect. But I don't judge whether America is a good place to live based on newspaper headlines -- because they are all designed to sell newspapers to Americans, not to report on the quality of life. I wanted to point out that news stories about Microsoft are most likely designed to do something other than report on the culture. Note: with my first post I had some technical trouble previewing my response before posting. I didn't notice that some fake markup tags I wrote didn't make it in there. I meant to mark off the first bit as something purposely overly sarcastic. Even so, I don't like the tone it sets in retrospect. I apologize for that. -gh
Good job taking an unnamed incident, using that to assassinate the corporate culture, and still getting the post marked as "3,insightful".
I work at Microsoft and have for 7 years. I disagree with what you imply about the culture or I wouldn't still be here. I certainly agree that Microsoft acts the way a big business acts. It puts business concerns high on its list or it goes out of business. It is possible that things the company has done don't always look good. If you are referring to the contractors deal, I know a contractor who was happy to work with us for the period his contract lasted and then move on. He would have been happy to work longer as a contractor but that case got settled and he couldn't. The issue at hand from the government's perspective (as I understand it which may be wrong) is misclassification of personnel. From my side, whoopdeedoo. It looked like people were happy to be here and have jobs, and now they aren't here any more. What does that have to do with culture or how you are treated as an employee?
But my boss and his boss and all the people I know treat me and treat each other with respect. We are always looking at how we serve our users in a way that is sustainable and useful, what else can we add that both helps the user and is cost-effective so that we can stay in business and keep providing cool stuff for people. That is what I experience on a day to day basis, and that is what I define as the culture of the company *from my perspective*. And the corporate culture from my perspective is what really matters to me as an employee or potential employee.
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