Current mood:

cynical

hate work
I thought Microsoft was a different place, for some reason. I really bought into all the open and honest integrity stuff. I thought people actually gave a shit at MSFT. I was so wrong it's not even funny.

It's just like everywhere else. Liars get ahead on the hard work of the honest, and the honest are punished for honesty. The executives are so busy jacking each other off in glee at their millions of dollars in salary and stock that they let their entire organizations fall apart without doing anything, or actively destroy them in the pursuit of a better bonus.

Every exec is so busy worrying about how to get themselves ahead that they just don't give a shit about anyone below them. Caring about the people who work for you only gets you in trouble with your management or peers. Being a human being is not welcome at Microsoft.

Think your company is better? It isn't. I've never seen a company that didn't operate in this fundamental manner. Liars and cheaters advance, honesty is unwelcome. Nobody cares about you, the company would just as soon see you replaced with cheaper labor that was easier to bully.

I thought it would be different here. I believed all the rhetoric about how Microsoft was a good place to work, an honest company where values are.. well.. valued. What a load of horseshit. It's just like everywhere else, a cesspool of dishonesty and short-sightedness.