Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub 393
theodp writes "Just three days before the Spitfire pub was to open on Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division campus, TechFlash reports that Microsoft got cold feet and pulled the plug on the project, leaving the bar's owner and his 22 employees in the lurch. 'I am completely stunned and disappointed by the decision,' said now lease-less owner Jonathan Sposato, who's stuck with space built out as a pub, complete with a giant bar, a fireplace, and eight beer taps. (He says it wouldn't be economically viable to refit it as a restaurant.) Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos confirmed the company's sudden change of heart: 'The goal was always to create a cool gathering place for employees, but to do so in a manner that's consistent with a business environment. We decided we should do something more appropriate, and that meant not having a pub.' The new pub had been in development for more than a year."
I guess (Score:5, Funny)
Pub closed at Microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
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Their just afraid someone will get drunk and do something really, really stupid..... like install Linux!
Re:I guess (Score:5, Funny)
Funny, that graph is the same graph for my ability to bring a girl back to the apartment!
Re:Sad reality (Score:5, Funny)
Good Mormons know the 10 commandments, one of which is "Though shalt not Judge...".
Which one is that? Were you privy to the entire set [youtube.com]?
I think its a bad move on Microsofts part... (Score:2, Funny)
And who knows, Drunk programmers would probably improve the product... ...sure couldn't make it any worse.
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Their just afraid someone will get drunk and do something really, really stupid..... like install Linux!
Or maybe throw some chairs?
C.
Justifications (Score:5, Funny)
Justification for pulling the plug on the pub: Google doesn't have one.
Re:Last Post (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft, where neither the source nor the beer are free. ;) j/k
Re:Boring (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sad reality (Score:5, Funny)
Fool! You've bought the oldest trick in the book, the 'blame the Mormons' line. I've heard through private sources that most Microsoft execs are actually vampires Jehova's Witnesses and are worried that alcohol consumption would dilute the blood volume they need for their artificial blood cloning experiments. All of Microsoft's purported 'software development' is just a front for establishing a solid breeding stock in the Seattle area so that the vampires can repopulate the Earth when the Conflicker virus finally triggers in 2012. Think you can prove me wrong? Then answer this: if Microsoft is really a software company why is their operating system such rubbish?
We're through the looking glass, people.
Re:Sad reality (Score:5, Funny)
Good Mormons know the 10 commandments, one of which is "Though shalt not Judge...".
And what is the other one?
Did you need WGA? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Last Post (Score:5, Funny)
You need to move on to hard drugs to explain Clippy.
Re:Bars are a business and a meeting place (Score:1, Funny)
Any reason why those of us who can handle alcohol shouldn't have beer at lunch?
Because others can not.
Re:Sad reality (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sad reality (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sad reality (Score:3, Funny)
Not even Ethel?
Re:Last Post (Score:2, Funny)
That was a really sleazy move by MS.
Is there any other kind?
Re:Alcohol "causing" crime (Score:1, Funny)
You're a fag in email.
Re:Last Post (Score:5, Funny)
Scratch that.
Found it! [xkcd.com]
Re:Sad reality (Score:3, Funny)
I grew up LDS...
I did a little too much of that stuff in the '60s.