Companies will sack staff on this site? In this economy, companies will probably reward staff on this site if they move product. Heck, companies will probably just put themselves on the site!
Strange but true: Microsoft encourages their employees to get their non-employee friends to use the employee discount.
A sale is a sale, I guess.
It would be strange if it was true.
Unless things have changed in the past ~1 year, Microsoft does not encourage employees to get their non-employee friends to use the employee discount. There is some fairly specific stuff about being able to use your employee discount on gifts, but not in exchange for $s or products.
Weird. When I bought MS-Office at the Microsoft store on the Redmond campus, an employee gave the cashier his employee number while I waited. Lots of people were doing that, just as openly.