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I find this twitter thread frustrating.

Q: What was the justification for the demotion? What became of the leaders that made that decision?

A: It was stranger than you can possibly imagine

I think the gist of the story is that he was assigned to work on X but worked on Y instead. Notwithstanding how great Y idea turned out to be it seems he was demoted for insubordination?

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Twitter threads are frustrating no matter the content, after two replies I get a banner that blocks me from reading until I register.

Not gonna happen.

Click on the banner to login, the page will change to a login form with an [X] close button; click that to cancel and you'll be returned to the content to scroll a couple more replies until it tries again and you get bored.

Nitter is your friend if you care (while it lasts). Nitter.net or nitter.eu usually work for me.

Using Nitter is as easy as replacing twitter.com with e.g. nitter.net or .eu:

https://nitter.net/jsnover/status/1523010444570419200

Yep, I'm doubly less likely to sign up when you pull that crap.

This particular "thread" is simply two tweets.

There's no explanation of why the demotion occurred, by whom, for what reason, when rescinded, etc., etc.

Ok, even that was obfuscated for me.

Firefox in a private browser window seems to get past the registration popup for me. You have to close and reload the private window periodically because it somehow starts to fingerprint you as a user and starts showing the popup after some time.

If there's a way to configure a specific site to never ever store any cookies or send them under any circumstance that might be the next thing to try. Make twitter think you're friggin curl. Unbelievable we have to do this nonsense just to read the site.

use nitter.net instead.

IIRC powershell came about in the mid 2000s when it was the peak Steve Balmer and Windows Vista era for Microsoft. Absolutely none of the senior leaders at that time survived at the company in the long run, at least no one in the Windows organization. Jim Allchin, Steve Sinofsky, etc.

> What became of the leaders that made that decision?

@Dejify: Not sure if you can speak to this, but it'd be nice to know what happened to those who dinged you? - https://twitter.com/Dejify/status/1523025584749629440

@Jsnover reply: "Retired" with a picture of Donald Trump on the Apprentice captioned "Fired" - https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523031601390571520

> it seems he was demoted for insubordination?

Probably, and what management blunder that would have been if Jeffrey had left Microsoft because of it.

They would never have known. When you cook the goose, you get a nice meal but you never know about the golden eggs that never got laid as a result. Everyone thinks they did the right thing except for the goose.

Yeah, but almost always geese lay regular eggs. You cannot just never kill geese in the offchance one lays golden eggs. The maintenance costs get astronomical.

Agreed. I was responding to the question of whether the cook ever realizes the mistake. Of course he doesn't - particularly if it's a new cook or someone who thinks geese are fungible.

This is why gold is expensive and you’re simply justifying the injustice

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