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Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn

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Making a post without explicitly labeling it as sarcasm is always a risky maneuver but I prefer the nuance.

The best outcome is when sarcasm is not detected, yet the comment still gets upvoted.

Sarcasm usually rightly deserves to be upvoted. It's one of the rare forms of critical thinking left in this trend-governed society.

Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn

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And then they will also use that information to help other companies poach your employees, at best. At worst, the data will be purchased for some sales team to identify and target your company to sign some wildly overpriced long term sales contract. They will know employee behavior and who the key prospects are in your organization. It has happened before. Even I was shocked how tens of thousands of companies handed…

Just a pet peeve, but please re-consider the casual use of the word "poach" when referring to companies hiring employees. It reduces a worker's agency to that of a farm animal or wild game, as if they were owned by their employer and "stolen" away by some other employer. I think we can all agree that we are not the property of our employers, so the word "poach" is pretty inappropriate and I'd argue moderately offensi…

I'd argue moderately offensive.

I was deliberately and enthusiastically nodding with the "we are not the property of our employers" bit. Then you dropped the O-word and now, mostly because I'm curious to the point of disaster, I think I actually kind of need to see one argue that 'poach' is carte-blanche "offensive".

Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then they will also use that information to help other companies poach your employees, at best. At worst, the data will be purchased for some sales team to identify and target your company to sign some wildly overpriced long term sales contract. They will know employee behavior and who the key prospects are in your organization. It has happened before. Even I was shocked how tens of thousands of companies handed…

Just a pet peeve, but please re-consider the casual use of the word "poach" when referring to companies hiring employees. It reduces a worker's agency to that of a farm animal or wild game, as if they were owned by their employer and "stolen" away by some other employer. I think we can all agree that we are not the property of our employers, so the word "poach" is pretty inappropriate and I'd argue moderately offensi…

If you Google this word, one of the definitions is “take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way”.

Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a pet peeve, but please re-consider the casual use of the word "poach" when referring to companies hiring employees. It reduces a worker's agency to that of a farm animal or wild game, as if they were owned by their employer and "stolen" away by some other employer. I think we can all agree that we are not the property of our employers, so the word "poach" is pretty inappropriate and I'd argue moderately offensi…

If you Google this word, one of the definitions is “take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way”.

Words are allowed to have more than one contextual meaning in conversation? Get outta here....

/s

Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn

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I have a feeling that most of the population will think this is an improvement but personally I try to avoid as much “integration” as possible. I don’t need the universe tied into my E-mail, documents, etc.; I just want tools that can focus on one thing and do it well. The more connected everything is, the more damage you can do by accident (“great, I just E-mailed my entire list of connections via auto-complete and I have no idea how that happened!”, or “why am I receiving system notifications every 10 minutes from the CEO of FoobarCo?”).

This doesn’t mean that I don’t integrate things, it’s just that I usually do so on my own terms. In my experience, 3rd parties are pretty bad at guessing exactly how I want two things to work together. I would rather see services remain open, with several options for tying them together, than have a monolith decide on exactly one way to do it that serves primarily their interests over mine.

Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn

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The coming feature list, from the article:

* LinkedIn identity and network in Microsoft Outlook and the Office suite

* LinkedIn notifications within the Windows action center

* Enabling members drafting résumés in Word to update their profiles, and discover and apply to jobs on LinkedIn

* Extending the reach of Sponsored Content across Microsoft properties

* Enterprise LinkedIn Lookup powered by Active Directory and Office 365

* LinkedIn Learning available across the Office 365 and Windows ecosystem

* Developing a business news desk across our content ecosystem and MSN.com

Few of these features benefit the user.

Good reason to switch to LibreOffice, if you haven't already.

(My last Microsoft Office purchase was Word 97. LibreOffice is pretty good now, although the early years of SunOffice and OpenOffice were painful. I liked Windows 7, and I still have one machine running it, but everything else is Linux now.)

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