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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
to be fair to satya, karma superpowers have been working well for him so far. if he had pestered steve ballmer for a promotion to CEO a few years ago it probably wouldn't have worked

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Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost

Socracheese posted:

nadella is an incompetant shitheel, if he wasn't he would have been fired long ago for potentially threatening ballmer's throne

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

to be fair to satya, karma superpowers have been working well for him so far. if he had pestered steve ballmer for a promotion to CEO a few years ago it probably wouldn't have worked

satya was bill gates' handpicked candidate to replace ballmer after he stabbed ballmer in the back
you're right that asking ballmer for a promotion wasn't the way to go

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

cremnob posted:

i think he was literally talking about HR systems and having pay scales for every position and how u will move to the top of it given enough time

its fantasy dreamland to think that with stack ranking and all the other management horseshit MS is notorious for along with programming's general hostility towards woman that even the most miraculous HR department could counter all that

pram
Jun 10, 2001
microsoft doesnt do stack ranking anymore

pram
Jun 10, 2001
its a new, gentler MS so stfu and build up those karma points

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

pram posted:

microsoft doesnt do stack ranking anymore

didnt they just name it something else

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


pram posted:

microsoft doesnt do stack ranking anymore

aww

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

well, they announced that they were ending it but who knows how long it'll be until the middle managers who rose to their position by gaming the system will either change their policies or leave the company

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Sniep posted:

didnt they just name it something else

exactly!

Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008
Karma Ranking powered by Bing and Plus!

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Korean Boomhauer posted:

Karma Ranking powered by Bing and Plus!

new karmic bing points will cash out when the time is right for the user

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

on top of telling an underpaid demographic in a largely outsourced and underpaid workplace to not ask for a raise, satya is appealing to "the system" in a place that just laid of 13,000 people and has created some of the worst software ever

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
I didn't know apple even had 13,000 employees

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

oh shaggaer :allears:

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


microsoft has a lot of spare employees

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

theadder posted:

microsoft has a lot of spare employees

would you say they are... redundant

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

Luigi Thirty posted:

would you say they are... redundant

should have used parity employees, it scales better

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

theadder posted:

microsoft has a lot of spare employees

yeah they're all in management

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



BangersInMyKnickers posted:

should have used parity employees, it scales better

a row of employees where some of them are only there to fix the fuckups of others

seems accurate

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

error correcting cubicle

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010







Joe 30330
Dec 20, 2007

"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

G-III posted:

I like Howie Mandella

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005


this makes my eyes hurt having them all next to each other

shadow everywhere

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



oh man the encarta one is especially bad

Dodoman
Feb 26, 2009



A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret
Lipstick Apathy

mishaq posted:

this makes my eyes hurt having them all next to each other

shadow everywhere

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy
before the internet took off, drop shadow technology was the killer app of the personal computer

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008
God forest green is 90s business as gently caress

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


green marble wordart logos for some mom and pop business were the best

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
it's called desktop publishing and it's the reason I bought this $5,000 computer. I have over 300 fonts.

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

FamDav posted:

God forest green is 90s business as gently caress
:mrgw:

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

this thing was awesome

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

ah yes, microsoft "home," their beloved consumer brand
it even got its won hardware

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

ah yes, microsoft "home," their beloved consumer brand
it even got its won hardware


beloved 1990s consumer brand microsoft

FamDav posted:

God forest green is 90s business as gently caress
its p appropriate for a finance program called money

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

ah yes, microsoft "home," their beloved consumer brand
it even got its won hardware



oh man wheres shagger

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

nice stegosaurus mouse

Tanith
Jul 17, 2005


Alpha, Beta, Gamma cores
Use them, lose them, salvage more
Kick off the next AI war
In the Persean Sector
broderbund also made lode runner which was loving awesome.

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


pram posted:

oh man wheres shagger

lol

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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

ah yes, microsoft "home," their beloved consumer brand
it even got its won hardware


complete with buttons shaped like houses

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