YouTuber “scotty321” (Scott Rose) has posted an iPhone video entitled, “Ex-Microsoft employee remembers the last sound he heard at Microsoft: Bing!”
The short description reads, “How one Microsoft employee didn’t ‘bing’ good enough for Steve Ballmer.”
We have no idea who the “ex-employee” shown is or if this really happened or not (we’ll add to this article if and when we get more info), but the video rings true to us and sure is funny (we love the “ex-employee’s” last line).
DISCLAIMER: Warning: This video contains uncensored explicit language!
Direct link via YouTube here.
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[UPDATE: December 21, 2009, 3:33pm EDT: Rose has posted the following additional info to his YouTube video entry: At a time when Americans are scared, jobless, and homeless, we wanted to create a comedy that would resonate with how Americans are feeling. We are Scott Rose and Ernie Brandon, a screenwriting duo in Los Angeles, and we don’t have anything to give back to America except for belly laughs. This video is a teaser for our new comedy screenplay about what it means to be a little guy in the land of giants. This is our Christmas gift to the working class.]
looks like this guy got Steve’d
Ballmer must be bing!
Bring me the employee that goes Bing!
The next thing Microsoft releases is a pin-ball machine. (The sound they have already chosen.)
Did Ballmer actually say “Bing up your A$$?” Oh dear Jobs. That is not an appropriate use of a Decision engine.
Aren’t there unfair-dismissal laws in the US? This would be a clean cut case for a lawsuit with many witnesses.
Gotta be a joke.
Bing…!
……….Bing……………I’ll empty out my draws!
This points to the real problem with MS. Yesmen. Explains the lame ads and the lame products.
too funny. The guy does a pretty good balmer, so maybe there is some truth. On the other hand, he looks a little too schlub-like to be in a balmer meeting. (Not that balmer isn’t a schlub, just that he would be surrounded by and in meetings with a bunch of mba types
Amazing! So bing and chair throwing!
“looks like this guy got Steve’d”
No Steve would have had a legitimate reason for firing the guy. Still would have been an ago trip, but at least it would have had some rationale.
At this point Ballmer is just a self serving egomaniac….
and may he stay the leader as long as it takes.
Long Live Steve Ballmer! At least until MS dies!
It’s a little bit pathetic when a company forbids employees from using competitor’s products, and fires them for not “Bing”ing well enough! I believe Apple employees must be using Palm or Microsoft’s Windows Mobile devices before the introduction of the iPhone! What the heck is wrong with that? Freedom of choice!
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I still keep thinking of the insurance salesman (the actor who later on was on “Heroes”) saying “Bing!” constantly to Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”…
Unfortunately it can’t be true. You can’t fire someone for that. Legal would be all over it.
@DogGone
What planet are you from?
The CEO of a company, especially one like Microsoft, doesn’t need a reason to fire an employee!
And for your information, Microsoft legal will ensure his dismissal was for cause, regardless of what witnesses may say, and not even the unionized state of Washington can do anything about it.
This man’s immediate supervisor will provide all the necessary documentation to support Ballmer’s maniacal reasoning.
…chair bounces off employee head! BING! Gotcha
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We are the knights who say …. “Bing!”
Bring out your “Bing!”
@DogGone:
Sure you can fire someone over that. They may be able to sue you for wrongful termination or some other claim, but you can still be fired.
How many job offers do you think the guy will get if he sues MS for wrongful termination? You think any new potential employer would want to take him on knowing that he may sue them if he gets fired later?
@connor macbook: NICE!
One way to find out, go to that Microsoft store in California and when the employees are not busy Line dancing, see if they go around saying “BING!”, “BING!”
This is just more evidence that Steve Ballmer is a scary guy. And possibly a little bit mentally unbalanced too. I’d hate to work under him.
@McIntosh
I’d hate to be his wife and “work under him”! Now that’s SCARRRRRRY!!!