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My roommate received this email from a Microsoft recruiter today

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I'm not sure what is more cringeworthy, the email itself or the fact that this became controversial enough to warrant a response from Microsoft [1]. People on the Internet will express discontent over anything and everything.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wants-bae-interns-to-get-lit-at...

That recruiter is doing good job, party announcement made it into HN frontpage.

This response chain seems much more interesting https://twitter.com/savantdotwtf/status/750781065518731264

The entire situation is ridiculous, but Mitchel's response probably won't go over well with his employer.

I work at microsoft and honestly the Mitchel guy seems unhinged. I saw him posting every 15 minutes on our internal Yammer today about this. He ranted a lot about how people at HR plotted against him in the past. Honestly his autism might get him fired because he took it way too far.

"But if they do show up, perhaps they can be put to work programming Skype Translator to produce a less cringy version of how kids today speak"

Cring(e)y is an example of how 'kids' today speak. For whatever reason this portmanteau is now being used more frequently than cringeworthy.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=cringy%2C%20cringey%...

might go without saying, but: do NOT get sloshed at events like this, even if you see other people doing it. you're trying to get a job, so keep your wits about you.

So does Microsoft have good parties or not?

I actually love it! though, maybe they didn't write it ironically.

More than likely a third party advertiser hired to attract young people as prospective interns.

Looks like they will probably be effective, only thing they didn't promise was strippers.

Misaligned incentives combined with poor oversight/training?

I can't imagine this is actually a recruiting pitch that's enshrined in company policy.

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