Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To Quit

Posted by epenn on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @05:20PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

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Re:Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To ... by kazinator on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @08:46PM (#8145740)

Love the "dividing line between gauche and tone-deaf" comment; brilliant!

tone-deaf: insensitive to nuances and contexts

gauche: ungraceful, socially awkward, crude

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Re:Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To ... by mullingitover on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @05:40PM (#8145017)

Wow, adding insult to injury. Nobody in China is buying Windows Phones.[1]

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Re:Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To ... by spainispain on Thursday August 07, 2014 @02:58AM (#8146555)

Chinese Workers Quit After Threatened To Be Given a Windows Phone

:oD

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Re:Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To ... by Kronopath on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @06:01PM (#8145115)

I'm guessing that they don't pay severance in China, do they?

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