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by pacaro 4090 days ago
A friend who worked at MS from the mid '90s when it was at least apocryphally common for employees to “call in rich” claims that this is a good thing.

The assholes leave, the people that you want to work with stay.

When the compensation model at MS shifted away from equity (because of an essentially flat share price) in the '00s, then it became correspondingly more valuable to game the promotion system, and so the assholes become political and the rest is history...

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Sounds like not enough assholes left.