Comment by bawolff
3 days ago
> Last thing, the final part 6 comes off as really childish, risks to national security and sending letters to the board, really?
That struck me too. Maybe i've never worked high enough in an org (im unclear how highly ranked the author of the piece is) but i've never been in an org where going over your boss's boss's boss's boss's head and writing a letter to the board was likely to go well.
That said, i could easily believe that both Azure is an absolute mess and that the author of the piece was fired because of how he went about things.
I didn’t say it went well. Actually I said it didn’t go well :(
Yes, but you are writing as if you expected it to go well.
I’d say they’re writing as if they expect everyone to share their ideals, and they’re responding to violations of those ideals in a naive and disempowered way. That doesn’t mean they’re wrong in those ideals, but the way they tried to fix things… they interacted with Cutler, why didn’t they try to influence him to fix things? Or any other senior technical leaders?
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Lol, no.
It is true that writing to the board will get you noticed, and that you might not like the consequences. If you value having the job then don’t write to the board. Even if you are right, being noticed like that isn’t going to endear you to your boss.
But if you care more about doing the right thing then writing to the board is the right thing to do. And after a few years of working at Microsoft you might not value your job very much either and you too might decide to go out in style.
Go watch the last episode of Chernobyl again.
Windows is ~500 times bigger than Azure, give or take, by machine count, and still many times larger by loc, modules, users, whatever else you want to measure. The heavy lifting (VM/containers, I/O, the things that cannot not be done just like that) is handled by the Windows folks anyway. The only hard part is the VM placement, everything else is mostly regular software engineering, some of medium-hard complexity but nothing that can excuse the need for constant human intervention.
Thanks for the free psychology assessment, I appreciate it, but I believe I’m fine. The series omits lots of details.
Hi, I hope you are doing good. From my personal experience, complaining about your manager to skip level manager is called Career Suicide.
There is nothing good that can come out of it,, except getting fired.
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It reminded me of this one:
https://wtfmitchel.medium.com/how-to-get-fired-from-microsof...
A lot of similarities, except the medium author was not part of PG but support. He also had recently suffered a brain injury.
"While some may see this as a dick move and I wasn’t exactly proud of it, but I actually waited for Daniel’s wife, Katie, to go into labor before bringing all of this up with his management."
Holy cow! Now I've unfortunately witnessed some ugly office behavior too, but this is quite another level.
Before or after publishing his article?
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Redacted to avoid getting doxxed (my original reply showed disdain for the parent comment and agreed with Axel's writing).
Former 1010 Overlake RnD here too :)
from a philosophy grad. both these responses are logical fallacies.
1: it's bad, but so is everything else (ad populum, everyone does it so it's ok).
2: it can only be because the author has a personality disorder or psychotic break (ad hominem)