[lowbridge]

Full title: Microsoft employees slam $480M HoloLens military contract, refuse to create tech for 'warfare and oppression'

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They should create a “Microsoft Defense Division” with a “Chinese Wall” walling it off from the rest of the company and move willing employees into it. It’s probably a highly compartmentalized project anyway.

Tell those “resistors” they are free to leave the company any time if they don’t like the work they were assigned.

[SharpRightTurn]

“More than 150 Microsoft employees signed a letter demanding the tech giant cancel a $480 million contract to build a HoloLens for the Pentagon, saying they “refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression.””

A good rule of thumb: What would Reagan do if he were CEO?

(I think he would can them and toss their personal belongings out on the sidewalk.)

[Delta 21]

You idiots will never get to work at Area 51 with attitudes like that.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Assign them to maintenance on Microsoft Bob.

[RedMonqey]

MicroSoft better fire these 150 employees.

If they refuse then seize ALL MicroSoft assets and give it to an American company that will.

No more pussyfooting with treasonous leftist.

[Thebaddog]

If these are the same goofs that developed Office365, fire them all.

[Williams]

GUARANTEE you they are giving our secrets to China.

[Rastus]

Relax, idiots. It’s just a popcorn maker.

[Mozzafiato]

"The employees represent the latest big tech backlash, coming from within Silicon Valley itself, as workers demand more of a say over how tech products are used and how a range of groups are treated internally."

When did Microsoft move to Silicon Valley?

[Libloather]

Ctrl, Alt, Delete.

[piytar]

Fire them all.

[Agatsu77]

Fire the idiots. They don’t need them anyway.

[Grimmy]

H1B visa holders afraid their own countries might be coming up on the list?

End H1B. Investigate every company that uses H1B for payroll and tax fraud. Prison for the offenders.

[Myrddin]

Identify the employees. Arrange a termination. Reason? Loss of a $450 million contract. Your services are no longer required.

[IronJack]

we demand a say in how our work is used

Refused. If you find yourselves unable to do the work assigned to you, pick up your check and clear out. Otherwise, shut up and get back to work.

[Socon-Econ]

That group of Microsoft employees is actually small; but it knows how to get press, and it no doubt has enough leftist money muscle behind it to cow disagreeing fellow employees into silence.

[TheZMan]

“we demand a say in how our work is used”

Hah, wow, OK. Good luck with that.

[Doogle]

....that’s what ya get with H1B visa’s and pay them $15 an hour...betcha over half the employees are from India and Pakistan....

[Carriage Hill]

Fire them. Hire replacements.

[adorno]

Any kind of computer, or tablet or smartphone, or software by MS, can be used by the military, to help them in warfare.

So, will ALL of those anti-military MS employees ask that MS end its contracts with the military, and even the government which runs that military?

Whatever contracts MS, or Google or Apple or any company decide to end because the equipment and/or software can be applied to warfare, should also be accompanied by the thousands, perhaps millions, of layoffs that result from those cancellations.

Let’s see how many of them are willing to accept their own layoffs mandated by their own idiocy.