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Ask HN: What caused Microsoft employees to stop throwing chairs at walls?
This used to occur in the 90s. What stopped this behavior?
- paulpauper 2y agodid this actually happen? I cannot see this being tolerated for long anywhere
- JohnFen 2y agoI don't know, but the people I personally know who worked there in those days never mentioned such things happening, and they absolutely would have if they saw it. If this was a thing, then it wasn't so common that everybody experienced it.
- talldayo 2y agoMore expensive chairs?
- jethronethro 2y ago> This used to occur in the 90s. Did it? Is there any documentary evidence? And, if it actually did occur, how often did it occur? I'm skeptical. Let's say Microsoft employees did throw chairs at walls in the 90s. You can bet management would pull the employees doing that aside and read them the riot act. And get them to pay for any repairs to the walls.
- amichail 2y agoSee this: https://www.theregister.com/2005/09/05/chair_chucking/ https://www.theregister.com/2005/09/05/chair_chucking/
- jarsin 2y agoThey moved to Amazon?
- WheelsAtLarge 2y agoIt's all about work culture. If crap like that is accepted at work then it continues. Both Gates and Ballmer have this over the top personalities where yelling and screaming and throwing things is part of a day's work. We saw that type of energy over and over in the presentations they gave and the articles written about them. Nadella is a different type of CEO so the culture will follow his lead. I doubt throwing chairs is one of his go-to moves. He has other ways to make his point.
- fuzzfactor 2y ago>What caused Microsoft employees to stop throwing chairs at walls? Whatever caused them to start doing it probably had an expired certificate . . .