Microsoft Store's Extremely Stupid Move, If True.

After the post below went up, I got wind that Microsoft is offering about $10 retail, the going rate, for new hires, but is offering $15 an hour for people to leave Apple Store and come across the street to the Microsoft store.  So apparently Microsoft wants to import Apple ethic into its store.

Now this is what is going on in China, where a new factory opens up, and it steals employees from an established factory, by offering higher wages.  This is good.  In this instance the few Apple employees for whom money is everything will move over to Microsoft, where money is everything.  Those who do not move over from Apple will grouse and no doubt Apple will raise some wages.  Better for workers all around.  And Microsoft then has no advantage, but Apple unloaded some not-so-good employees.

Next, Apple hires thence are all purely into Apple, not just the money.  Better for Apple and their customers.

At the same time, the majority of employees at Microsoft store will know, by their paychecks, that they are less valued than ex-Apple employees by Microsoft.

Microsoft had a reputation for having the smartest human resources people on the planet, and the proof was microsoft employees, who of course, because they got hired, were the smartest in the world.  Proof positive.  Well, if so, they must have left, because even I can tell this is very bad policy.

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