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So what happens if you simply refuse to play along, and give your superior an intelligent argument as to why you're doing so? From the stories I've heard from

So what happens if you simply refuse to play along, and give your superior an intelligent argument as to why you're doing so? From the stories I've heard from friends at MS, there does really seem to be a sense of office-politics-gone-insane there. At some point, it seems there has to be a backlash.

cek 14y ago
At some point, as a manager, you put your own career/reputation on the line. It is important to remember we are discussing outliers here. 4s & 5s represent 20% of the company. My blog post does not impact that other 80% really at all, and within the 20%, 7% likely really deserve to be let go anyway (IMO). It's a big company. With any sufficiently large population there will be problems. I'm not a MS apologist, but at the same time MS produces some pretty damn good things regardless.