Asta [AMP]looking at the epstein ballroom that Microsoft "donated" money to and thinking back on how they used to get salty at me, a lone engineer, when I took too long to do my annual "compliance" training which involved watching a video and taking a quiz about how it's wrong and against company policy to bribe public officials for preferential treatment in business.
"at least they paid you for your time" yes, but did they pay me for the insult
they put a lot of money into those training videos! They were very proud of them. In hindsight, I suppose the amount of attention they paid to bribing/quid pro quo relationships should have been a tell.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Are you talking about the Standards of Business Conduct ones?
The first one of those I did was the first instalment of the soap-opera versions. In it, every single engineer was male. Everyone in the sales org was female, except the person in charge of the org, who was an old white man.
I pointed out that this was Microsoft portrayed as Microsoft aspires to be and was entirely full of gender stereotypes. I managed to get this escalated quite far: apparently no one (up to and including Nadella, who signed off on the content) had realised that this might be a bad thing.
Su_G@david_chisnall
OMG: “…apparently no one (up to and including Nadella, who signed off on the content) had realised that this [M$ internal business conduct training full of gender stereotypes including total absence of women] might be a bad thing.” What Century was this in? (only half joking) 😐
Oh, it was so much worse than a ‘total absence of women’. There were women, but they were entirely in the sales org, not the engineering org. And the manager for the sales org was a white man, even though almost everyone we saw in that org was a woman.
There were other more subtle stereotypes, but there were absolute screaming ones like this, which made it clear that Nadella’s push on diversity and inclusion meant very little.
@david_chisnall
So depressing! But thanks for amplifying that comment. How late was it (still) like this to your knowledge David? And did it ever change (& then I’m wondering how is it now…). 😐
@aud
So depressing! But thanks for amplifying that comment. How late was it (still) like this to your knowledge David? And did it ever change (& then I’m wondering how is it now…). 😐
@aud
@david_chisnall
OMG! 2018!! I am shocked now as well as depressed. 😐