Cubicle Wars 2006

While skimming the MSDN Flash Newsletter from Microsoft this morning, I came across the following lines (that are mysteriously missing from the online version):

“From the Editor:

A short film http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5252877 that’s a huge Internet hit has been making the rounds on the workstations… After watching these hard-working employees, you might want to learn more about robot programming…

And the link is a redirect to a non-Microsoft site featuring the video below. My questions are these:

1. Why is Microsoft masking a link to an offsite video like it resides on their site?
2. Is it just me, or does saying that a “video has been making rounds on the workstations” make the writer sound like he makes his living sweeping up for your barber rather than editing a newsletter for the largest software company in the world?
3. What in the flying fuck does the video have to do with robot programming? There are high school freshmen editing school papers that routinely make better transitions between cafeteria menu changes and who the football team has been gang raping this week.

It is a good video, with lots of great lines, just the same. And if Microsoft includes something in a newsletter, forwarding said link to one’s co-workers can’t possibly violate any corporate policies, can it? I didn’t think so, either.

Mother’s Day

From the same guys who did Cubicle Wars. Sometimes getting a simple picture taken for your Mom can be a process.

The Good Word

Again from the same guys who did Cubicle Wars. Sometimes you have to go that extra mile to spread the good word.

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