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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.
Yeah right~
Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn
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Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn
#72Microsoft owns my "employee" identity thru office 365. I don't love them owning my "job-searching" identity too. Seems like the most valuable service they have to offer is to corporations. "Want to know how often your employee is updating their resume? Pay us for access." Of course they'll spin it differently, but in short that's the value.
Time to start building a replacement.
Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn
#73Sounds like it might be a good time to start a new career focused social network.
You start linkmeup.com and I'm on there. MS is a subpar company in my opinion even though a lot of people seem to love them now.
Re: Integrating Microsoft and LinkedIn
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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”.
Offering someone a job and having them accept it is not unfair or clandestine.
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…
> It reduces a worker's agency to that of a farm animal or wild game
MS certainly treats Windows users like cattle so there is always a possibility that they would do something similar with job seeker or employee data. There is nothing offensive about pointing out unethical practices of such companies or the potential to abuse the data.