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Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Ion Todirel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:53:29 GMT

sweet

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Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Charles — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:13:52 GMT

One of the things I loved about this interview is that is explicitly demonstrates how open minded Microsoft really is. In fact, when I worked in Windows I remember a tester (who was also a male of the species) who would dress in a dress and high heels once a week for no apparent reason. Nobody really flinched and certainly there was no meaness. There are a lot of smart people at Microsoft, but even better; there a lot of genuinely good people who roam the halls of the Deathstar.

The empire's flagship battle vessel really does have a caramel sweet center.

C

posted by Charles

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

ZippyV — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:49:43 GMT

Gothic people scare me.

posted by ZippyV

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

intelman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:57:34 GMT

One would hope that acceptance isn't just limited to Microsoft. It is great there is acceptance there. Companies without dress codes are the best

posted by intelman

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Charles — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:20:38 GMT

Not only do we have no dress codes at Microsoft, but if you do your job you can wear your robe and slippers to work every day. It goes beyond wardrobe, however. Microsoft is very accepting of lifestyle in general. Of course, disrespect (like here on Channel 9) is not acceptable. You can speak your mind freely at Microsoft and thinking outside the box is encouraged and incented.
C

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Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Carla Holley — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:57:24 GMT

I have am an acquaintance of Jilli... she's always fun, gracious, charming. Nice to see this video interview, good job all around!

posted by Carla Holley

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Ion Todirel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:02:37 GMT

lol, that looks like a strange dude

posted by Ion Todirel

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

stevo_ — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:14:33 GMT

Cross dressers still make me think... wow ok.. but maybe thats cuz where I work (manchester), you literally get cross dressers like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPSJvkdbUGY

posted by stevo_

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

jason818_253.33 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:06:01 GMT

I loved this interview. I got a kick out of how many times Charles said "interesting" in this interview.

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Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Ion Todirel — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:33:55 GMT

I don't know, I really liked this interview, is Charles's old school style, let the interviewee do the work accordion to a plan and get involved only is really necessary, the transition between the interviewee responses and interviewer questions was smooth

posted by Ion Todirel

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

icelava — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:20:58 GMT

Is Tim Burton working at Microsoft too?

posted by icelava

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Charles — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:28:05 GMT

Indeed. Jeff put it best in a private mail on the subject: This interview is classic C9. Why? Because it's human focused, highlighting the person behind the job, behind the technology, behind Microsoft. Somewhere along the way we've lost our human-first focus on C9. Scoble really did a good job of capturing the human-ness of Microsoft. I got too caught up in the technology and lost the focus on our most valuable of assets: people. This is something I need to work on going forward. After all, it is people who make Channel 9 Channel 9. You can learn about technologies on any number of blogs and, of course, MSDN. We started CHannel 9 to showcase the technologies we create, of course, but we we always wanted to do so through a human voice. People make software. Who are these people? Why do they do what they do? Certainly, the technology is not a second class citizen, but there's got to be a balance betwen code, science and people.

Sometimes we forget to be human centric in our approach. This interview really woke me up.

What do you think?
C

posted by Charles

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Steve411 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:10:27 GMT

Was Microsoft recently sued for discrimination? Did I miss something? Because we've never had a video on C9 focusing on "goth" or any other type style of living before, besides techy. This seems like MS is trying to cover up or appologize for something.

Specifically looking at this:
One of the things I loved about this interview is that is explicitly demonstrates how open minded Microsoft really is.

And this
But, even more interesting (at least for Ritzy) is that Jillian is a full-fledged Goth. What’s a Goth, you ask?.

Eh, just came to mind, disregard it. Cool vid none the less!

ps. Didn't Russia recently set out to ban this type of style?
Stevan Veselinovic

posted by Steve411

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Charles — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:22:49 GMT

No. There is no litigation driving any of this... Did you read the post you replied to?
C

posted by Charles

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Steve411 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:24:20 GMT

Yeah! I just had a thought it's alright. Haha, and yeah the guy with the high heels kind of creeps me out, lol.

"It takes all types, and Microsoft proudly accepts them all. Enjoy!". I like that.

Stevan

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Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

alex904 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:59:38 GMT

What MPUD stands for? What am I doing here.... I love this company already. So many weird people who don't know what they're doing.

posted by alex904

Re: Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar

Ren — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:50:27 GMT

Yay for goths making it in big companies! I love her office decorations like the beautiful picture of Siouxsie on the wall, and Emilie autumn's head in the upper right corner of the band wall. I wish I could get a closer look. I wonder if she would mind me hiding under a hoop skirt.

posted by Ren