Cancel culture strikes again... From the right as usual.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
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Can't wait to hear Bari Weiss' take on this.
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I'm beginning to think this Microsoft company might fucking suck.
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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War Profiteering: It's not just for weapons manufacturers any more!
We all knew that Microsoft wasn't a good company. Let this news motivate you to switch to GNU/Linux.
just deleted windows earlier and am no longer dual booting 👐 Linux is pain but the pain is worth it
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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.
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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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.
In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.
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?
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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remember this when they talk about being gay friendly or anything else even remotely "woke"
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Unionize
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
Right, my daily reminder that the US doesn't belive in human rights. Article 23 of the UN human rights declaration for anyone curious. This is also a fun, yet basic resource: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/countries-with-independent-national-human-rights-institution?time=latest
It's sad that the west still glorifies this fucking homunculus that not only doesn't try to adhere to any agreed principals and values, but actively goes against them. The republicans are against half the things written in there, while the dems "compromise" so hard that "barely making it" is the ultimate unachievable goal in the distance to aim towards. Fucking pathetic.
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.
Why would you organise this on company headquarters without the consent of the company?
If you tell your employers that you hate the way they operate, what do you think is going to happen?
This is a Neoliberal anthem: rights are for citizens; employees need to sit down and STFU.
Why do we reject tyranny.gov, but embrace tyranny.com?
I don't think this is any of that though. Company property isn't public property. The company can refuse service to people and require people to have permits for assembly. Employees don't need to sit down and stfu, but there are ways to properly organize and do all the things they want without getting fired
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