My wife and I went to Seattle and visited Microsoft. I saw they has a store there so I
tried to enter. It was for Employees only. Not sure why that was, but
I left very
disgruntled.

Many companies have a store where employees can shop and get a discount on the company's products. I used to work at General Electric and we had our own store - for employees only.

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Alonzo wrote to Mike Dippel <=-

Many companies have a store where employees can shop and get a discount
on the company's products. I used to work at General Electric and we
had our own store - for employees only.

Microsoft has a company store in their Mountain View, CA offices. I
went there for a "dog and pony show" back in the Windows 8 days and we
were bought lunch in the cafe (very nice) and given passes to the
employee store. They had lots of MS, Surface, Office and 365 swag, year
licenses of Office365 and Xbox Live for 70% off, and Windows 8 pro
licenses for $25 - which still work to this day on my Windows 11
system.

I bought a couple of branded pens and a nice Microsoft mug, all of
which were stolen over the next few weeks from my desk. Bastards!



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Re: Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
By: Alonzo to Mike Dippel on Sun Apr 07 2024 01:41 am

My wife and I went to Seattle and visited Microsoft. I saw they has a
store there so I
tried to enter. It was for Employees only. Not sure why that was, but I
left very
disgruntled.

Many companies have a store where employees can shop and get a discount on the company's products. I used to work at General Electric and we had our own store - for employees only.

That's true. It sounded like what Mike was talking about was that the employee store was also open to the public from time to time. I've heard of a couple employee stores like that - Addidas, Nike, and Columbia Sportswear do that in my area. Some of them require a pass in order to get in.

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