Every year Microsoft launches a giving campaign to encourage employees to give back to the community monetarily as well as via volunteerism. Since 2005 the ‘soft has been matching employee donations dollar-for-dollar up to $12,000 per employee. More than that, if I volunteer with an organization, that organization will get paid $17 for every hour I’m there. Every year, Microsoft employees give hundreds of thousands to non-profit organizations (NPOs), and every dollar the employs give gets matched with a dollar from the company. I personally think this is one of my biggest perks and benefits of working for the company.
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Vancouver Food Tour #2
Sunil, Andy & I made a quick trip back and forth to B.C. this weekend to do our food & dance tour of the town:
1) Brioche is super. Excellent Lasagna… almost as good as DD’s. Sunil’s vegetarian eggplant Lasagna looked almost as good as my 23-ingredient-chocked pasta delight. Almost.
2) Granville Island is quite nice, what Pike Place ought to aspire to be
3) Vij’s is still great, even when you overstuff yourself after the requisite 2 hour wait to get in. Vikram, Vij’s food pimp & owner, was working the room the whole night offering up h’orderves and good conversation. Apparently he’s hosting a food tour of India in February 2009 which would be a blast.
4) Oydessy was way more fun than the lack-luster crowd at Celebrities; Oyd won on music, vibe, drinks, crowd… pretty much everything.
the future delicious
If you’re reading this, you probably already know that I work for the largest software company in the world. And you probably know that I work on the flagship software project. What you might not know is that I’m quite proud to work where I do.