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      6 months ago

      I mean, if you can name them, it’s probably because they were successful, right?

      Microsoft is not a paragon of good employee treatment btw. As others pointed out, they had their asses sued to pieces for trying to maintain employees as contractors because it allowed them to save money by not paying benefits.

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          6 months ago

          So I don’t know what I’m talking about because I didn’t link you to a super well-known and easily found piece of info? Sure bro.

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              6 months ago

              Wow you really are a corporate simp. The lawsuit would never have been necessary if MS hadn’t been trying to stiff their workers.

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                  6 months ago

                  lol at “it was never corporate policy”.

                  So you, with a straight face, are claiming that companies always write down and distribute policy to govern their intentional unethical behavior?

                  You are ignorant about this. I happened to work for a company that changed their practices as a result of this lawsuit (or maybe a later one? if so, further proves the point which you’re jumping over). That company let about 8 contractors go that I know of, and replaced them with about 3-4 permanent hires. Kind of shows you how much money they were saving by hiring people as “temps” which they intended to renew indefinitely until it was no longer convenient for them. They, like MS, required contractors to report in person during specific hours for work. Something you legally cannot do with contractors. They got scared of a lawsuit so they stopped. They admitted that was the reason to me and referenced MS by name.

                  Believe what you want, this isn’t actually debatable though…