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Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by WalterBright »

Someone wrote: post #295
WalterBright wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still remember the prank from the late 1980s when KING ran a story that the Space Needle fell over. KING ran retractions for days, and did their best to bury the footage. I saw it when KING ran it, and had a good laugh. It was an obvious prank (the video looked like a bad cut & paste job, and the reporters were local comedians from "Almost Live"), but too bad a handful of humorless people ruined it. I ran into Bill…

1989, I guess. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xeio-CJ0qZ8

I miss Almost Live. When KING would run reruns of it, they never did that one. Anyhow, they stopped all AL reruns a year or two ago. Sad.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by addicted »

addicted wrote: post #80
juotlrjrb wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can a regular non-executive employee be guilty of a SEC violation, for something like this? If I'm a Tesla employee and I make a fake image about a future Tesla airplane, is that a SEC violation?

Non executives can very much be guilty of SEC violations. If you make a fake image of a Tesla airplane, create branding for that fake Tesla image, and post it all over the official Tesla PR accounts, without immediately or at least in the fine print, explaining this is an Apr 1 joke, Tesla, and likely you, would be legally liable.

All those downvoting this really need to read their company’s employment manual.

An employee’s actions represents their employer’s actions. Not being an executive does not make your company any less liable and/or make you as an employee less liable for your actions as an employee (there is no question whether the actions discussed in this situation were considered to be in a personal capacity, since the author clearly states they leveraged Microsoft partnerships as well as Microsoft resources to pull this off).

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by desi_ninja »

WalterBright wrote: post #272
iso1210 wrote: post #109

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> I'm assuming Seattlites would be able to confirm. Perhaps, however remember the Mandela Effect. I'd expect ong time KOMO viewers and staff to recognise the presenters, and I'm sure they were the right ones. I wouldn't trust their recollection of this story though, especially once they had seen the video - after all the camera never lies. Remember news anchors read dozens of these stories a day, to recall one specif…

I still remember the prank from the late 1980s when KING ran a story that the Space Needle fell over. KING ran retractions for days, and did their best to bury the footage. I saw it when KING ran it, and had a good laugh. It was an obvious prank (the video looked like a bad cut & paste job, and the reporters were local comedians from "Almost Live"), but too bad a handful of humorless people ruined it. I ran into Bill…

this has more details of what happened on that April's fools day https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2013/05/an-oral-...

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by scrollaway »

cbozeman wrote: post #305
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #193

> unlike other pranks our prank didn’t just say ‘Microsoft is successful but nerdy’. Instead, it fed the idea that Microsoft kind of sucked as a company in some way; a lazy copycat. > [...] Usually Microsoft was happy to take credit for clever pranks from employees, because it showed we played hard besides working hard. > [...] BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft lo…

> (Or maybe I'm 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing.) You're 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing. > BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft look stupid rather than clever - especially as a catch-up to Sun Microsystems. He was pissed because, wh…

People aren't allowed to change? Improve?

What shitty things did you do 25 years ago you're willing to let me judge current you on?

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by [deleted] »

cbozeman wrote: post #305
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #193

> unlike other pranks our prank didn’t just say ‘Microsoft is successful but nerdy’. Instead, it fed the idea that Microsoft kind of sucked as a company in some way; a lazy copycat. > [...] Usually Microsoft was happy to take credit for clever pranks from employees, because it showed we played hard besides working hard. > [...] BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft lo…

> (Or maybe I'm 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing.) You're 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing. > BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft look stupid rather than clever - especially as a catch-up to Sun Microsystems. He was pissed because, wh…

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Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by pricci »

atdrummond wrote: post #306

Oh wow... you have just given me some sense of comfort after feeling like a moron for over two decades. When I was growing up, my dad had visited Seattle and came back from the trip with a box of Microsoft Coffee. He claimed to have gotten it from a store called Egg-Head’s Software or Egghead Computing or something like that. (EDIT: Upon reading the full article it seems to have been Egghead Software.) I took it to m…

My dad too! From EGHead in Seattle.

One morning we were going to brew it but it was whole grain and we didn't have a grinder.

My dad was a fool for believing a random cashier's word that it was instant coffee!

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by MaximumYComb »

atdrummond wrote: post #306

Oh wow... you have just given me some sense of comfort after feeling like a moron for over two decades. When I was growing up, my dad had visited Seattle and came back from the trip with a box of Microsoft Coffee. He claimed to have gotten it from a store called Egg-Head’s Software or Egghead Computing or something like that. (EDIT: Upon reading the full article it seems to have been Egghead Software.) I took it to m…

Everything in your story lines up with that article. It's probably worth a fair bit now if he can find it.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by zrkrlc »

cbozeman wrote: post #305
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #193

> unlike other pranks our prank didn’t just say ‘Microsoft is successful but nerdy’. Instead, it fed the idea that Microsoft kind of sucked as a company in some way; a lazy copycat. > [...] Usually Microsoft was happy to take credit for clever pranks from employees, because it showed we played hard besides working hard. > [...] BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft lo…

> (Or maybe I'm 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing.) You're 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing. > BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft look stupid rather than clever - especially as a catch-up to Sun Microsystems. He was pissed because, wh…

I think if you’re responsible for eradicating polio, you can be as shitty as you like.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by idlewords »

zrkrlc wrote: post #319
cbozeman wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (Or maybe I'm 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing.) You're 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing. > BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft look stupid rather than clever - especially as a catch-up to Sun Microsystems. He was pissed because, wh…

I think if you’re responsible for eradicating polio, you can be as shitty as you like.

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