I'm beginning to think this Microsoft company might fucking suck.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
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I mean...they organized in the company headquarters witbout any kind of authorization to do so. Almost any company would have fired those responsible. I don't think it has to do with political opinion so much as unauthorized use of facilities.
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Cancel culture strikes again... From the right as usual.
Can't wait to hear Bari Weiss' take on this.
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War Profiteering: It's not just for weapons manufacturers any more!
If it didn’t get approved, I can understand why the company would take that stance.
But I do think they should have just approved the event
Daily reminder, you have freedom of speech in that the government won't do anything about your speech, but you don't have freedom from speech. Going out and protesting your employer and their business relationships can and will get you fired, no matter how just the cause.
Because profits drive everything
You would think israel pays all of these mega corpos bills... Like holyshit it isba country of 7 million people... Do these mega corps get this bent out for US?
This seems like it should be more of a "write-up" type of offense, rather than skipping straight to terminating employment. This is a vigil, not a protest. Microsoft: "how dare you mourn those killed by a genocidal regime."
BTW - what is everyone's favorite non-MS suite of office programs? I've been using Only Office, but curious what others think.
Microsoft makes a lot of money hosting the platform that enables the efficient leveling of Gaza. They're the new IBM in many ways.
Israeli attaché said they wanted heads to roll...
All these mega crops got some wierd israeli advisors. Facebook recently got caught bragging about it, not a good look.
100% LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org/
I am glad it's worked for so many. I wasn't able to adapt to it.
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In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.
As always, fuck Microsoft. Literally been saying this over 30 years already.
Don't use windows, switch to Linux. It's free, actually reasonably secure, actually works, won't spy on you, won't force shit on you just to make you pay more.
Don't use Microsoft azure. It's overpriced and runs in Linux anyway.
Don't use Microsoft 365 online shit. Outlook functions horrendously bad, teams is a sad joke. I unfortunately have to deal with teams every day because government customers thought it was a good idea and EVERY call there is some shit. People can't get in, people don't have audio, people ALWAYS have the wrong audio device selected no matter what and need to spend the first 5 minutes to get their audio and video working. It's shit quality compared to zoom or Google meet or open source alternatieves...
Stop giving this piece of shit your money
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We all knew that Microsoft wasn't a good company. Let this news motivate you to switch to GNU/Linux.
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Obviously, since they "fix their bugs" so much, they need people to not be distracted. Right? Right? It's not because they're probably racist assholes.
Unionize
remember this when they talk about being gay friendly or anything else even remotely "woke"
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