6/12/2023 0 Comments Microsoft groundskeeper ferrariBut NOOOOOOOOOO! Saved from the millionaire's fate by a moment of keen business insight. Could have retired after five or six years. was this photo of one of the groundskeepers standing next to his Ferrari. These people are going to be out of business before they know it."Ĭould have gone for the blue badge. Seth Davis: I read this article a while back, it said the Microsoft employs. I took my cute little miniature shopping bag home and gave it to my daughter, and I remember saying to my wife something like, "Imagine wasting the money to buy thousands of these stupid cloth bags that are just going to get thrown away, and taking the time to insert all those booklets, just to distribute a company phone book. Probably one of the last times it was distributed in print. In each bag was the new edition of the company phone book. Dozens of them, like miniature cloth shopping bags - not practical for actual shopping, but a size you might give to a 4-year-old to pretend to go shopping. The work also wasn't all that interesting - it involved writing code for order processing, not working on any products.īut what really made me decide I didn't want to join the company was arriving one morning early to find little canvas bags hanging on every door handle in the hallway. One reason I wasn't interested in switching from contractor to employee was that the pay was lower. While I was there Windows 3 was released, the stock soared, and guys around me were getting converted to FTE like crazy. There were eleven of us from the same agency working in the same hallway. Way back in 1990 I did a 9-month contract job at Microsoft.
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