Seeking a job within Microsoft Stores organization? Perhaps you are wooed by the glamorous, puffed up, resume-boosting title you think you are ready for or are enraptured by the shiny career growth opportunity the random Microsoft recruiter who hoovered you on LinkedIn is shelling out. Turn away from the glimmer and promises, you will sell your soul out dealing with the narcissists in this group! I thought it was all worth the riches, title and stock but I was so, so wrong! All around me were slobbering, know-it-all partners that wasted my youth, diminished my belief in my capabilities, stole my happiness and robbed me of my vacation time. Microsoft Stores partners abused me in Outlook emails, stacked my calendar with wasteful promises of progress and chided me in Teams after hours without my consent. The Microsoft Store mercanaries peddle false promises of tech ectasy in the form of cheap, crappy Windows laptops, broken apps and Xbox consoles manufactured in sweatshops. They swindle consumers out of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of their hard earned dollars every year and gloat about the profit! Microsoft Stores “Leadership” (or LT to make it fancy) is comprised of a sick, boastful, egotistical and evil group of suck ups with no understanding of commerce, tech or the customer. Don’t even ask me to relay the hundreds of stories about the HR bus throwing non-LT Microsoft Store employees endure. If you’ve ever wanted to pound sand all day in a meaningless, go-nowhere, unappreciated job that contributes nothing to society, Microsoft Stores is heaven on earth. There were a couple of humans I met there who cared about doing good work and helping others but sadly they all quit, got fired, layed off or PIPed. Save yourself the pain, friend...the cost is great.
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