Did I miss the announcement that this is Microsoft is stupid month?
You might think that selling your LGB employees down the river might be enough for one month, but, no, now Microsoft is tring to get the B*sh junta to allow them to lift all quotas on hiring overseas workers. And their "argument" is "Anybody who's got good computer science training, they are not out there unemployed".
I think I recognise what billg is trying to sell here. And it comes out of the south end of a northbound cow.
When I was unemployed, I sent Microsoft a few resumes, and didn't even get a "thanks for applying, but you're tainted too much by being a Linux kernel developer" formletter from them. My "not out there unemployed" status happened 30 months after the economy cratered, and during that 30 months I saw a lot of computer programmers just give up and leave the field instead of starving to death. I get the strong impression that Microsoft just doesn't care to hire employees who aren't tethered to the company by a "you quit and we'll expel you from the country" clause, and the "good computer science training" they're talking about is "10 years prior experience working for Microsoft", which they'll be happy to waive if you're willing to work as slave labour.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, just as there's nothing wrong with firing up the shredder and converting all of my licensed microsoft crapware into finely ground confetti.
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