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   Steven Hoefer (troublewithwords@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 04:29:18 JST Steven Hoefer

   Microsoft has 220,000 employees (!!!)

   Recall wasn't done on a lark. It wasn't some rogue coder doing some shit. It passed through probably hundreds, maybe thousands of hands.

   How many of those people made the "Yes" decision on it when they could have said "lol, no." Lots.

   That's the thing to remember when companies do reprehensible things like this. It's part of their culture. This wasn't a mistake.

   They won't change.

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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 04:29:15 JST :blobcathug:

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     @troublewithwords doupt it, thats not how corporate structures work...
     i bet 90% of them were devs which opinions simply dont matter
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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 05:16:47 JST :blobcathug:

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     @troublewithwords well, i dont know Microsofts Structure that much...
     one thing i do know is that the workers of such company sometimes lost the perspective of the outside, so they end up in looking at that feature/code and might think that its actually cool and dont question it too much
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     Steven Hoefer (troublewithwords@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 05:16:48 JST Steven Hoefer

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     @Jain Microsoft doesn't work that way because they've structured it not to. But some corporations do. Any company that has andon cords, literally or metaphorically, has a form of it. I've known places where an anonymous note to legal would have stopped it cold.