“Disclaimer: I own Microsoft stock,” Ben Brooks reports for The Brooks Report.
He’s employee number 30 and has been with Microsoft since mid-1980. In 2000, after nearly 20 years of service, Microsoft promoted Steve Ballmer to Chief Executive Officer,” Brooks writes.
“It seems rather obvious that Microsoft is on a downward trend, but is that accurate?” Brooks asks.
Let’s look at a chart…
Brooks writes, “In business school the first thing they teach you about CEO’s is: it is the CEO’s job to increase the shareholder value of the company. Since taking the position Ballmer has decreased shareholder value, as reflected by stock price, by -56.63%. That. Is. Not. Good.”
“I think it is appropriate at this time to start the countdown of how long Ballmer has left until he ‘steps down,'” Brooks writes. “This Skype deal should be the final nail in the coffin for the Ballmer era at Microsoft, yet I fear that employee number 30 may get a reprieve.”
MacDailyNews Take: We pray for it. Ballmer’s doing a great job!*
Brooks writes, “The scariest thought isn’t Ballmer remaining in power — it’s who his successor may be. My guess is that it is another long time employee (calling #40), but that would be a worse decision than letting Ballmer blow money on hookers and Skype.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: *Killing Microsoft.
Disclaimer: For all we know Ballmer T. Clown is a fine family man** and the only money he’s blowing is on Microsoft products and idiotic, panicked acquisitions.
**Besides brainwashing his kids to use Zunes.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fhoxh” for the heads up.]
These “Ballmer must go” articles have to stop!! We love him. I think it’s a great idea to pay others billions to use WM7 and outbidding Google and Facebook by $4 billion for Skype was genius. 🙂
I agree. Ballmer at the helm of MS forever (or as long as it takes)! Damn the icebergs – full speed ahead!
The right thing to do is for MS to take the next successor in line go vs. Ballmer in a dance off.
There’s a joke in there, but I can’t quite pull it out… “Dancing With the ________.” Help!
Balls?
Monkey Boy!
Dancing with the Czar
or better still
Dancing with the Epstein-Barr
It’s “Dances With Monkeys”, which was the long-awaited sequel to “Dances With Wolves”.
Dancing with the Lard???
Ducking from the Chairs
Dancing with the ‘tard?
Maybe a chair throwing competition. Has to go through the glass and over the secretary’s desk to count.
I think Steve Ballmer is doing a fine job at Microsoft as CEO, may he stay there for many years to come.
Ha! When I first looked at the chart I couldn’t figure out where the third line was. Then I realized the line at the bottom of the graph wasn’t a baseline, it was Micro$oft flatlined. 🙂
Doctor: CLEAR!
Awesome. (I’m in the medical field.)
but hey, no necessitate was requested by AAPL
Let’s flood the internet with articles praising Ballmer! Political disinformation campaigns have worked very well in the past decade. Let’s put that technique to good use!
Great idea!
YAY!!!
That, and attack ads.
#40 carries an iPod and has Macs at home!
MS ought to have a reality TV show: Windows on MS Musical Chairs.
You start with 14 chairs and each week 1 person gets the “You are fired” routine.
Special rules allow anyone to be fired anytime for throwing a chair.
I am sure this site is the only place in the galaxy which supports Mr.Ballmer.
Liberals should be supporting Ballmer and Microsoft with great enthusiasm. After all, they believe in “spreading the wealth”, so as long as Microsoft “invests” its money in Yahoo, Nokia, and Skype (after earlier investments in Mail and TV), they should be thrilled. The shareholders, not so much. The recipients of that largess, of course, are laughing all the way to the bank.
And conservatives should support him because he is an as$hole.
The complete ridiculousness of this entire statement is just…. the stupid, it burns!
You obviously haven’t seen the Windoze sites where the M$ fanboys rise to his defense
Seattle News:
” Another Bigfoot siting comes out of Redmond, Wa. this week as two school children describe their terror: ” It came out of nowhere, doing this weird dance and throwing chairs…. we just ran”.
uh, sighting.
ummm…Bigfoot sitting would actually be more frightening… 🙂
So .. We are going to flood the web with Kisses for Ballmer. But we need a strategy. We need arguments. We need leadership. In fact, we need Ballmer himself. Oh, the irony.
In a vote by IT pros and antivirus companies worldwide, Steve Ballmer voted top CEO.
There, argument # 1.