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        <title><![CDATA[Military Experience]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Amen!Discharged 40 years ago last November.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bob.klahn@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:45:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Military Experience]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am a veteran and I have mixed feelings about the military.  On one hand it was a great experience and it took me to a lot of places I would not have gotten to go; on  the other hand it was the mindless bureauracracy that made decisions for you if it did not like your choices.  There was a lack of freedom to do some things and there was also a rigid hierarchy.  The military will push you into doing things you do not want to do, but afterwards realize that you were perfectly capable of doing those things no matter how unpleasant.  Civilian jobs can't just push people the same way.I am proud to have served, but I would not want to go through it again.  The one thing that is different between the military and civilian jobs is that being in the military is a contract that you have to finish regardless of your comfort and fit.  Having a civilian job after being in the military helps you put up with a lot of crap, but if things don't work out you can quit and move on without waiting for your time to expire.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sboverie]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:01:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Home/personal life is not work life]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So we don't even have personal lives anymore, and how we act off the clock shows how we act on the clock?Are there any other loose associations we should know?And most shrinks usually look at &quot;loose associations&quot; and associate people who engage with &quot;loose associations&quot; with a certain disorder.  The first 6 letters of the diagnosis they hand out is &quot;S&quot;, &quot;c&quot;, &quot;h&quot;, &quot;i&quot;, &quot;z&quot;, and &quot;o&quot;...  especially if other  perceived symptoms exist...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[HypnoToad72]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:31:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fruits/vegetables or perish?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just love it when threats are handed out via metaphor... I mean, the &quot;produce&quot; section of the store and all...I love followers of Ayn Rand.  It must be nice living simple ideals...  produce for someone else until they deem you perishable...  but that must be the definition of &quot;freedom&quot;, to work to make somebody else rich?  Ditto for &quot;life&quot; and &quot;liberty&quot;, yes?Granted, she was good at producing - she even produced someone else's credentials to grab social security, despite her lambasting it as being a refuge for leeches and all that...http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_against_government_benefits,_but_grabbed_social_security_and_medicare_when_she_needed_them/?page=1]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[HypnoToad72]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:30:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The weird thing is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They call it the Golden Handcuffs at Intel - the base salary was competitive, but not extraordinary - but the benefits, bonuses and other compensation and perks put the total gross well into six-figures. I was making boatloads of money there - and that was at a time when stocks were tanked for Intel. The guys who were there during rapid growth in stock value and frequent splits were making a killing. A lot of Intel employees were basically part-time day-traders who financed their market investments by working at Intel. But I didn't have any time to enjoy all that income, other than driving excessively fast on my way to and from work with a group of engineers who all had expensive European sports sedans. Our M3s and S4s were the only way we could enjoy the fruits of our labors, and only when going to and from work. Otherwise I was too tired or trying to catch some downtime to recharge for the next onslaught of  back-to-back 18 hour days and 3 AM pages.   But I wonder if that sounds like a disgruntled former employee complaining, or simply an admission that I couldn't commit to the level they wanted me to. Intel tells you up front they expect this, and they reward you through bonuses and other opportunities - and require a sabbatical because they know you're going to need it eventually. I couldn't make it that long. Intel is the perfect place for a young, driven, single person who is more focused on opportunity that social life. But it didn't work as well for me as a family man.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dcolbert@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:57:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rescue]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Somebody has a - for some people displeasing - story on Microsoft and immediately Shinder is flying to the rescue on behalf of her money grabbing colleagues, trying to portrait herself as Batman and the blogger as the Joker.Typical.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[walldorff]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:22:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Microsoft - Innovation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Incompatible words]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kordoniss@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:44:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Comment on ms Shinder's article &quot;Fired Microsoft Employee...&quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are you ms Shinder stille getting paid (directly or indirectly) by Microsoft? Because if you do, then you are the last person in the world to comment about the quality of the fired, by Microsoft, employee's comments. You are simply a paid pen. Instead of having the Microsoft's PR dept make a statement they put you up to it, so people might think that the quarrel is not between the fired person and the Evil Empire, but between a &quot;disgruntled ex-employee &quot; and a more cool head (which reveals beforehand that she has been paid by Microsoft in the past), who tries to keep things under perspective.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kordoniss@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[...and next week, in my last weekly Microsoft InSights column...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Off topic, but next week will be the last time this column is published, or just the last time you will be writing it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[khiatt@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:55:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Providing Alternatives Scares the Authority]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is naive to expect a project to run without the beaucracy in a large and established company because those at the top enjoy the comfort of knowing what to expect next. Being respectful of this &quot;power&quot; in large environments mean you can coast without being thought of as liability, and questioning standard practices can make you seem like a negative team member - even if your ideas aimed to improve something.Wasting time and resources on beaucracy is not just an enterprise issue but since these companies maintain such a large hold in their industries the waste can continue on for years. I prefer working with smaller groups and individuals who have earned the level of authority they represent through their experience and insight versus those who get ranks through ass-kissing. It's easy to spot these different types of people.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[roleat]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:04:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Microsoft - creativity strangler? Often.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have not worked for MS but have experience with companies &amp; people trying to work for them. What they found was that MS is so siloed and firewalled that there is no communication even among groups working on the same project. Dealing with the entire project (as they were supposed to) became one frustrating episode after another. Information was incomplete and often contradictory - one hand literally didn't know what the other was doing. More over, MS employees seemed to take this as normal and typical.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[BillGates_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:31:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Produce or Perish...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and Live in Truth.i like it. can i make you my mentor?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kalmirza]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:32:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[...company wanted to be the center of my life...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[well said. looking back at my (almost 20 yr career) this resonates with me too. especially now that I'm older (and hopefully wiser) and have a growing family, I really don't want to work at a company where they want all of my attention all the time... I need a work-life balance, and that would mean outside of the company with people who don't work there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kalmirza]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:21:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sort of Like the Squeeky Wheel...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... gets replaced.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sperry532@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:23:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Foxconn?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please tell me what company other than Apple does not have a cell phone/smartphone, tablet or PC that is NOT built at Foxconn?Name one, please.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kevin@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:10:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Errr.....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unless you worked there, how can you call it a &quot;suppressive culture&quot;?Takling this idiots ranting at face value doesn't say much.I could call Apple a bunch of cheap skates who force users to work long hours for low wages untrue - well excedpt those working at plants [on Apple's behalf] like Foxconn.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gisabun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:44:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Exiting a Company]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Burning your bridges is ALWAYS a very bad idea!!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bwallan@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:32:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rants are worth reading, if only for the reader comments.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Someone asked if we would hire a ranter. If it were a personal attack, no. If it is simply a rant about a business model, why not? I would not tend to hire people who think a post to a personal blog constitutes a resume however. They belong at Foxconn where their &quot;The nail that sticks up needs to be hammered down&quot; philosophy would fit right in.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[-=M=-]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:23:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Depends...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If it were a personal attack, no. If it is simply a rant about a business model, why not? I would not tend to hire people who think a post to a personal blog constitutes a resume however. They belong at Foxconn where their &quot;The nail that sticks up needs to be hammered down&quot; philosophy would fit right in.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[-=M=-]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:19:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Corporate Culture (Is what it is)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This person sounds like he was not cut out or prepared for corporate culture. He had a vision of Microsoft and it did not live up to his fantasy. Insted of leaving in the manner he did, common sense would have told him to leave in a more professional manner. I'm pretty sure a public dismissal from a company as big as Microsoft would kill any chances for getting another good job with a large company. Bashing your previous employer is never a good thing. You want innovation and forward thinking you had better get a job with a small private company or start your own. Corporate culture is the land of endless meetings, no decisions being made, good decisions being stone walled and slow moving progress. Meeting adjourned.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dyalect]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:12:31 -0700</pubDate>
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