Comments on: Are you a Microsoft employee/contractor? Be afraid, very afraid!

By: bobboynton sent a spelling edit. | gooseGrade

bobboynton sent a spelling edit. | gooseGrade — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:37:17 +0000

[...] worth 2 pointsOriginal: the are contractorsEdit: them are contractorsStatus: PendingReport Abusehttp://thenextweb.com/2008/12/31/are-you-a-microsoft-employee-contractor-be-afraid-very-afraid/ [...]

By: bobboynton sent a spelling edit. | gooseGrade

bobboynton sent a spelling edit. | gooseGrade — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:37:12 +0000

[...] posted on Jan 01th, 2009 worth 2 pointsOriginal: worlwideEdit: worldwideStatus: PendingReport Abusehttp://thenextweb.com/2008/12/31/are-you-a-microsoft-employee-contractor-be-afraid-very-afraid/ [...]

By: Mircea Goia

Mircea Goia — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:34:07 +0000

I already got a pink slip once in my life so I know how it is :) (and I wasn’t working for MSFT). Don’t worry, my sense of humour is still intact.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:57:38 +0000

Well, may be its a joke but you could have spread some other rumors across. What if your pink slip is on the way? I was also just kidding dude.

By: Mircea Goia

Mircea Goia — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:36:01 +0000

As I said at the end of the post, I was just joking about MSFT and Linux (I’m mostly MSFT user). Sorry that my, sometimes, sarcastic humour is not understood by some people. I thought we can all be a bit more relaxed at the end of the year…

Point taken about the English and the links.

But you have to understand that sometimes when you have news you want to post them quite fast (I’m in US and I’m 8-9 hours behind Europe but ahead of it when it comes to news – especially when the news are released during the day in US which means night in Europe). So, not always my English will be perfect…for posts which are not time tied I’m using an American friend to help me out.

By: jeroen020

jeroen020 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:18:12 +0000

I read TheNextWeb now and then and like the fact that you have a different perspective than the majority of US-centric sites out there. However this item was probably the worst written and least useful post I’ve seen here.

I realize most posters here aren’t native English speakers (neither am I) but if you’re serious about blogging you could at least run a spellchecker on the article or if you don’t know how to put things ask an English/American friend to help out.

Also, this is about a company that is a little bit more significant to the industry than yet another startup. So I’d expect you’d have gotten hold of an actual source, a company representative or even just a quote or link to somebody else that has. There is nothing here that offers anything worth reading, only a (rather tired) undertone of ‘Microsoft is Evil’.

By: antonmannering (Anton Mannering)

antonmannering (Anton Mannering) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:29:07 +0000

This looks potentially ominous for MS guys http://is.gd/ej9f

By: jongos (Jon Gosier)

jongos (Jon Gosier) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:25:15 +0000

Really, glad I didn’t take that job at Microsoft last year. http://is.gd/ej9f