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Seattle thrift stores filled with old Microsoft shirts after layoffs
Boing Boing Gadgets —
A few days after Microsoft laid off 1,400 employees as part of a recession-prompted purge of 5,000, Seattle's thrift stores are stuffed to the gills with pawned off Microsoft t-shirts.
Some (like the "Warriors in Pink" Zune shirt or the hopelessly wishful thinking "Windows Mobile is better than iPhone" shirt) are just surreally absurd and corporately propagandist, like shirts flushed through a dimensional wormhole from another world.
Gallery: The shirts that Microsoft workers no longer want to wear [Tech Flash] ...
Seattle Thrift Stores Flooded With Shirts From Disgruntled Microsoft Ex-Employees [Clothing]
Gizmodo —
... is the shirt that features the message "Think your iPhone is cool? Let me show you a thing or two about Windows Mobile." Hmm...yes. Windows Mobile. Cool. No matter where your loyalties lie, you have to admit that even the most die hard Microsoft fan would move quickly to eliminate any reminder of the employer that left them high and dry. Then again, there are always exceptions to the rule. Hit the link to check out the rest of the shirts spotted in the $2 bargain bin. [Tech Flash via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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