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FMguru posted:i think it means you can only work at a contract position for 18 months, and then you will be let go, and you cant be rehired for that position or any other position at msft for 6 months it would be real cool if that loophole got closed btw
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apparently agency temps ("a-dashes") have had this policy since the temp lawsuit, to make sure nobody mistakes the peasants for real employees the new policy also applies to onsite vendor employees ("v-dashes") which like for example dell sales or maintenance guys and poo poo like that. why microsoft would be worried about any of those people after all this time i have no idea but bosses gonna boss gonna lol when some data center falls over and catches fire when some obscure v-dash nobody knew about takes his finger out of the dike for his six month furlough.
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Base Emitter posted:apparently agency temps ("a-dashes") have had this policy since the temp lawsuit, to make sure nobody mistakes the peasants for real employees this happens afaik
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FMguru posted:gosh we have all these empty positions we simply cannot fill, congress needs to act now to expand the guest worker program or america will fall even further behind in technology!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kedfVAbXNy0
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we have a 12 month limit on contractors and 12 months before we can hire them back unless they're there on the budget of a specific project and it sucks, we have to let good people go constantly and it takes months to get new folks up to speed we got a 6 month extension for my minion but I'm going to be bummed when she's gone
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FamDav posted:so they laid off a bunch of sdets and contractors? more than you might think. MS qa people, as far as I can tell, are absolutely worthless at qa/test & also import their toxic culture with them. plus they're like idiot hell pringles - your dumb recruiters can't stop at just one.
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Berkshire Hunts posted:more than you might think. MS qa people, as far as I can tell, are absolutely worthless at qa/test & also import their toxic culture with them. plus they're like idiot hell pringles - your dumb recruiters can't stop at just one. most QAs are worthless garbage. people, and a lot of managers, see it as a stepping stone to dev. it requires a different mind set and really should be seem as it's own career path
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mod sassinator posted:they didn't lay off any contractors apparently, they just will stop allowing them access to buildings and the corporate network after 18 months. loving lol, it's seriously office space levels of insanity. Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, said in a memo to the company’s sales and marketing groups last week that the plan is to “reduce our reliance on contingent staff augmentation by over 20 percent year-over-year” in that part of the company, according to Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet.
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hell sucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGKwx-BFO0E
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is this an elected official or do they let people in for comment or something? [video type="youtube"]video of the same guy who's bashing spooky scary billionaires praising trickle down economics and poo poo, talking about private companies being more efficient and less wasteful, and defending mitt romney's business record.[/video] call me daily show.
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PleasureKevin posted:is this an elected official or do they let people in for comment or something? jeff sessions is the junior senator from alabama and one of the worst human beings alive, hth like he's not just a politician i disagree with the dude would repeal the 13th amendment if he could
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On October 5, 2005, he was one of nine Senators who voted against a Senate amendment to a House bill that prohibited cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment of individuals in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government.
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is he related to bill "say no to drugs" sessions i liked playing shameful video games with his helpful message on them
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Berkshire Hunts posted:more than you might think. MS qa people, as far as I can tell, are absolutely worthless at qa/test & also import their toxic culture with them. plus they're like idiot hell pringles - your dumb recruiters can't stop at just one. why are you hiring these people. I can guarantee the other three famous tech cos in seattle will not be hiring a significant portion of these people. also I like how sfpos has yosmeets and we have vague acknowledgement that. we live in seattle.
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why are there two Microsoft Is Bad threads?
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Werthog 95 posted:why are there two Microsoft Is Bad threads? its just that bad
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Werthog 95 posted:why are there two Microsoft Is Bad threads? the other is titled "Microsoft is a top-notch company developing top-notch products" so logically that's a microsoft is good thread? or did you mean my terrible thread in games about the Xbox One All-In-One Entertainment System?
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i guess that thread is about microsoft's bad products while this thread is about microsoft's bad decisions
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Werthog 95 posted:i guess that thread is about microsoft's bad products while this thread is about microsoft's bad decisions
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this is the official microsoft is bad thread. the other one has a bad OP
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flakeloaf posted:25 CALs = 1 thread
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Consider these stats: In the prior quarter, Microsoft reported 2 million console sales of which 1.2 million were the Xbox One. That means the company was moving about 800,000 Xbox 360s just three months ago. If we assume that the 360 is selling similarly at this point, then this quarter’s 1.1 million consoles likely consisted of just 300,000 Xbox Ones. Microsoft managed $409 million in Surface revenue, which represents well under 1 million Surfaces sold in the most recent quarter. Worse still, that total is actually down from the prior quarter, when Microsoft managed $500 million in Surface sales. But with unit sales running at somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million units every 3 months, Microsoft is accounting for less than 1% of the combined PC/tablet markets. How this is strategic to the company remains a mystery. Microsoft isn’t making money selling smartphones and is extraordinarily unlikely to do so anytime soon. The company reported earning $58 million in gross margin on $1.99 billion in phone revenues, but it’s likely that was all generated from the 30 million featurephones Microsoft sold, not the Lumias.
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i bet nokia's linux phones would have sold better it's not like they could sell significantly worse
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rename this thread to Microsoft is Bad Enterprise Edition and the other one to Microsoft is Bad Home Premium
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qirex posted:rename this thread to Microsoft is Bad Enterprise Edition and the other one to Microsoft is Bad Home Premium
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qirex posted:rename this thread to Microsoft is Bad Enterprise Edition and the other one to Microsoft is Bad Home Premium
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qirex posted:rename this thread to Microsoft is Bad Enterprise Edition and the other one to Microsoft is Bad Home Premium
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Microsoft is Bad Cloud 365 Edition
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qirex posted:rename this thread to Microsoft is Bad Enterprise Edition and the other one to Microsoft is Bad Home Premium itym Microsoft is Bad Enterprise Edition R2
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Microsoft is Bad 8.1: They're Bringing The Layoffs Back!
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this thread has more posts and should stay alive close the other one thanks
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pram posted:this is my preferred microsoft thread the hints of urine and accents of fecal matter are so delicate it's hard for my palate to distinguish between them
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thanks, to those who now just got the fact that there are two threads about microsoft, and comment a lot now about how there are two threads, and even better - post the identical thing in both threads now because pram did it and he's a good poster so let's be like that and just post the same stupid bullshit copy-paste style in both threads!
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im not reall sure if pram is a good poster, or if his posting is just frequent enough that it's become a homely sign. like your doormat at your house. i wouldn't say it was a good doormat but GOD drat if it doesn't mean you've just gotten home after a hard day of slog
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same but wih a flaming paper bag of dog poo poo on my doorstep
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mate yr cruisin for a bruisin
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echinopsis posted:im not reall sure if pram is a good poster, or if his posting is just frequent enough that it's become a homely sign. like your doormat at your house. i wouldn't say it was a good doormat but GOD drat if it doesn't mean you've just gotten home after a hard day of slog prams posting is on a level that is so far beyond your comprehension that your ridiculous analogy only highlights your own ineptitude
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