Dear @BradSmi: I have some questions about your recent tweet (https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1055270186616586240 …) saying "Trans people are an important part of Microsoft’s workforce. We oppose any move that treats them as less than equal. We value our trans employees."
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@satyanadella I’m angry that money from my@Office subscription is going to politicians that attack the rights of transgender people. Is this consistent with your values?1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes -
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It’s not. Those are donations from employees, not corporate funds.
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Much of it is automatic payroll deduction from employees who enroll (at the suggestion of management). Mr. Selman's Office subscription pays those salaries, so he is right to be angry.
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Have you ever tried to get 100,000+ people to agree on anything? And a lot of employees (me included) do not donate to our PAC.
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This is a bit disingenuous, because the PAC spending decisions are made by Microsoft, not employees, and the donations have Microsoft's name on them. No one is criticizing employees' right to donate in their own right to whomever they please, or stay out of politics.
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But who runs a committee? Humans. Just ordinary people. I honestly don’t know who gets on that committee or how they determine where to donate. It’s not like all employees are polled where to put money. We have a give system for direct contributions that most use.
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Yeah, that's kind of my point. At other big tech firms (where I know the system better than MSFT) there's an office of public policy, and an executive in charge of political giving who makes those allocations. Contributors pay in not knowing where the money will go
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