What about Jon? - New comment on Severance, Neelie, and Rats.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Severance, Neelie, and Rats":

Mini, if GMs are a fair game here is what I like to say with regards to severance package.

Jon, a GM, has been screaming for six months that he is being fired. For the last six months he is thinking of accepting a severance package. In these six months he has received his salary and had some stocks vested. Is this not already a severance package? Why is he getting so much time to find another role? Is this because he is a partner? Cam you and me get this kind of time and severance package?

That d-word - New comment on Severance, Neelie, and Rats.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Severance, Neelie, and Rats":

people do not flip the bozo bit on me because i'm competent and get my shit done and don't screw even the most simple things up -- not because i say mean things to low-performing groups.

respect is earned, bucko.

Most people don't care to earn the respect of a douchbag. And partners aren't the only ones "old-skool" enough to know that term. I pity your co-workers.

(I just do not like that d- word.)

Apple v. Microsoft - New comment on Microsoft Company Meeting 2007.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Microsoft Company Meeting 2007":

Ugh, it's not even worth addressing the specifics about the earlier post regarding Apple's "missed opportunity." So, I won't. Ever notice the difference between Apple and MS on a very basic level? Apple isn't trying to win at everything. MS is. And, by doing so, they are not the best in anything.

The NYT piece was a shill piece. Check the background of the one who wrote it. There's Ballmer residue in them there pockets.

To believe the article, you'd have to ignore that Apple has doubled it's share in a few years WITHOUT trying to sell to everyone as a direct competitor to Microsoft. Apple is not trying to be MS, thank God. That's why everyone's always chasing after them. They take risks in favor of creativity, not profit.

Every time MS has taken a risk to "be cool," they've missed the mark. That's because deep down, you guys don't get it. Apple is not competing with you directly. Neither is Google. Neither is (fill in the blank). They changed the business model. They changed the whole conversation. You guys mistake your past two successes with Office and Windows as the "truth" of the future of tech.

Keep it up. You're getting outflanked so badly, it's embarrassing. Yeah, yeah, I know... you make a lot of money. So did Jedd Clampett.

Forced to Compete - New comment on Microsoft Company Meeting 2007.

PePe LePew has left a new comment on your post "Microsoft Company Meeting 2007":

>"There's this thing called google you can use to find information on the innertubes."

Huh? Perhapsez une personne can helpez moi a trouvez l'explanation du cette M'softiez a direz? Oui?

A theenk heez sayin (pardonnez moi mon Anglais et plus terrible que mon Francais!) this ez a minor consequencez (le media player). The grande consequencez eetts about being forciezed to c o m p e t e.

meow.

deed you knowz LePeu eett rhymez's weeth EU. Thus PePe LePew du EU!

More Race Discussion - New comment on Microsoft Company Meeting Ahoy!.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Microsoft Company Meeting Ahoy!":

To the disgruntled minority poster (who I suspect is probably actually white, but trying to be "for the people"), the Seinfeld New York had non-white characters all the time.

In REAL LIFE, people tend to stick with people who are similar to them. That may bother you, but its reality in NEW YORK (where I was born and raised). So a group of white friends dont deliberately go and meet black people so they can fill some social quota. Ditto for a group of black friends.

Hence a show about black friends, or white friends or latino friends or asian friends, in New York that only depicts other races in the background, or as acquaintences, is actually being very realistic.

Must everything be artificially manipulated into some idiotic liberal fantasy of Utopia? I watch plenty of black shows that have pretty much a totally black cast and I love them. It doesnt bother me at all that they dont go out of their way to make sure the main char has a white, asian and Mexican buddy.

The most ironic thing is your post complaining about the lack of "colored" people is amazingly racist. I guess unless you see someone that looks just like you up there (assuming you're not actually white), there is no way you can relate to them or assume that maybe you can succeed also. And of course "white" people are just a homogenous group to you (that excludes Jews, oddly) and Irish accents "dont count".

Rule #4 - avoid discussion of race - New comment on Microsoft Company Meeting Ahoy!.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Microsoft Company Meeting Ahoy!":

"if you have 100 executives, all of which are white males -- and you have then a whole bunch of mixed ethnicities and genders under them -- THE WHITE MEN STILL WIN"

You provide hard evidence that they passed over some minority/religious/female candidate for VP that was just as good as the person that got picked and then I might reconsider the opinion that you're full of crap.

I'm tired of the unsubstantiated BS claims from looney reverse supremacists like you that is wrecking the ability of people to take real minority/religion/gender issues seriously. If you're from the same minority or religion I am, I publically disown you right here and now.