“Inside Dell, CEO Michael Dell has a 66% approval rating — higher than Steve Ballmer’s approval rating (55%) inside of Microsoft. Inside the foundering Motorola , CEO Greg Brown has a pitiful 19% approval rating, while Apple CEO Steve Jobs has an unsurprising 91% approval rating from his employees,” Kevin Maney reports for Seeking Alpha.
MacDailyNews Take: That 55% of Microsoft brown-nosers employees “approve” of the way Steve Ballmer’s handling the company tells you about all you need to know why that company is in decline. From the Zune, to Vista, to Yahoo!, Ballmer has been an abject, dismal, neon-lit failure. Yet 55% of Redmond ass-kissers employees “approve?” That’s rather remarkable. Hence, our remarks. And now, a toast: “May Ballmer be Microsoft’s CEO for as long as it takes!”
Maney continues, “Last week, I wrote about the debut of Glassdoor, a company-rating site from Rich Barton, who also founded Expedia and Zillow. The idea is to provide a TripAdvisor-like place for employees to rate their own companies and management, and open the results up to anyone.”
“The companies with the most reviews so far tend to be tech companies, and of those with a significant number of reviews, you can learn some interesting things,” Maney reports.
More in the full article here.
I’m Steve Jobs, Bitch!
There is the problem, so many of Microsoft personal don’t understand what a great leader they have in Steve Ballmer .
Why is it “unsurprising”? Shouldn’t it be surprising, considering Steve will fire you for breathing the air inside an elevator without first asking permission.
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Who are those 9% in Apple??? FIRE THEM!
Watch out you 9%!
Great minds stink alike.
lol ron..at the very same minute too
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you can not breath the air, but have all the Kool aid you like.
From my iPhone, watching The Price is Right, while comcast craps out.
Why is 55% of MS employees brown-nosers, but not the 91% of Apple employees? Maybe the 91% of Apple employees have their wives and children held hostage by Jobs.
“Give me an iPhone, Bitch, or your wife will get thrown to the ‘nets with a Windows XP machine -SP1!!!”
Forty-five percent of Microsoft employees have just been eaten. The rest are hiding under desks and sobbing in abject terror.
“Feed me, Seymour.”
The real thing that is surprising is that 55% of Microsoft employees approve of Balmy, despite the fact that so many probably have stock options in the company.
When I went to school, 55 and 66 were failing grades. So Ballmer, Dell, it’s official. You’ve failed.
As to Apple’s 9%, that’s easy to explain. Not everyone can deal with a strong, dominant personality who sets high standards and expects others to measure up. Though I suspect he’s mellowed at least a bit from the Jobs portrayed in “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, he’s clearly still setting high standards.
The 9% are employees who would like Apple to update the Mac mini and to release an xMac!!!
@Raymond in DC
“When I went to school”…
That is where you made your mistake. You see I am a teacher (summer vacation rocks) and at most schools teachers are not allowed to give a student a grade less than a 50 anymore. The rational is that a student that makes less than a 50 in the first 6-weeks can’t come back from that and still pass and make the principal look good. So if you line curve those scores up appropriately so that a 0 is a 50, Ballmer gets an easy 76, and Dell gets a 85. Walla, they both passed.
Hope you enjoyed your education on our school system’s new math standards. Thank you, Mr. Bush. No student or CEO left behind.
those 9% have no business working in apple IMO.
It is very surprising how few people understand the simple fact that the world is full-to-overflowing with assholes, but genuises are exceedingly rare. This being the case, whether or not a genius like Steve Jobs is also an asshole is completely irrelevant. Not to mention the fact that people love to throw stones at anyone who makes their own lack of brilliance painfully obvious. Long live Steve Jobs!
I wonder what kind of approval this is, are they approving how he is with employees or how they are directing the company…
Real people appreciate straight talking. So much effort is taken up in trying to work out what people are actually saying these days. Actually it always has been a problem in the US where an ordinary day is a good day, or even a great day if you are up to speed with the lingo. Fuck knows what you say when you really do have a great day – but then for most folks it doesn’t happen.
People don’t have problems any more, they have issues, or challenges. Can’t have toilets, call them restrooms (with all the crap most people eat maybe they need a rest after having a sh*t).
95% of the 55% who gave a plus to Barmier were worried that the survey may be hosted on IIS and MS would peek through their backdoor.
Like Steve I don’t give a shit about how I look. It’s about what you do, what you say, who you are, not how pretty you are.
Dallas? You’re a teacher? its “rationale” and “voilà.”
@Botvinnlk
Ha, your right. Yeah, I teach Chemistry and Physics. Never was one for spelling, or in this case grammar. (Dang spell check not checking for context.)
The ratings actually says A LOT. Dell – do you think the employees knew that it was a survey? MS – considered their PCs are probably all bugged with Big Brother spyware half of them probably decided it’s better to check the positive rating box. Motorola – the workers cared for the survey about as much as the company cared about its mobile research division.
I’m suspect most Intranet will be blocking access to Glassdoor fairly soon.
And the other 9% are fired!
um . . . I don’t care if you teach shop. Our teachers not being able to spell and speak correctly is a disgrace. Not something I’d be proud about if I were you.
Glassdoor is a crock, they want your location and title then tell you not to put any information that might identify you?
So positive ratings come from current employees wishing to brown nose, and negative ratings come from those that have been fired or wish to be.
A good approval rating when a company is doing well is nothing. Anybody can do that. The trick is to have a good approval rating when the company is doing horribly.
Stalin was great at that sorta thing and I think he is the CEO Microsoft needs today.
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