People are so easily offended. God, we are raising a country full of pussies.

That said, that advice is awful but nothing to apologize for.

Oh look a correction nazi! Because everyone in this world speaks english as a first language and never uses smartphones to type something. Oh and console warzz? Get your mind out of the gutter, that comment says more about you.

Hmm, there wasn't anything controversial said, but it's pretty bad advice though. Good karma to not ask for a raise? In many situations the employee may be truly due a raise and has been overlooked, so obviously the right advice is if you think you (actually) deserve one but didn't get one, then you should ask.

Satya Nadella now says he was wrong to say that women shouldn't ask for a raise.

Only he didn't say that at all. The outrage industry is fucking tiresome.

Somewhere along the lines of human evolution, the "I disagree with you" and "I am offended" became synonymous.

Hm, he didn't say that at all, it was his general advice to all employees.

I smell another SJW bullshit.

If he didnt say it then why did he say sorry for saying it? :S

I'm black and I live in Georgia. I was dirt poor as a kid http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=48992 . A lot of people in my area like to talk about how society has held them back and how other people have gotten ahead based on whatever. Meanwhile I never went to college, worked hard at every job I ever had (even building mobile homes for $5 and hour after I got out of the Air Force) and kept a positive attitude. I'm making four times the average income for my area. When people talk about being held down by some glass ceiling, I just can't relate to it.

I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I'm not saying there is no disparity between genders/race/penis size. I'm just saying that I never thought twice about it, never considered myself any type of victim, and I'm doing just fine. I guess I'm lucky.

my statements aren't a sweeping generalization,.. they are specific to my time at GE.

it's my feeling after being told i am getting a "promotion" because the buisness needs me to do a specific role and i'm my skills are soo valueable but then also being told we can't offer you a raise right now because HR's goals and objectives are to lower payroll by 15%.   ..we can reconsider next year.   ..maybe.

it's my feelings after watching 10% of my division getting layed off despite our 29% profit margin and then being told i have to take on extra responsibilites to compensate for our holes in staffing even if that means working well over a 40 hour week.

it's my feelings after having a stagnat wage for 5 years because "times are rough" and we need to "protect the company".

it's my feeling after hearing from my ex-collegues that they were required to work through their xmas vacation (without comp days) last year or they would be put on a performance improvement plan because last year was a "all hands on deck" sort of year.  

...in the end i left and in doing so i got a 46% raise.    so in summary,.. fuck GE.   i'm soo much happier now that i'm out of that abusive employee environment.  it's all the sweeter that i left for the competition and over the last year took ~20% of their business with me (not GE obviously,. just my division).

hopefully i'm not being racist here but...

...hearing you are black is blowing my mind.   i've just always pictured you as a zapp braniganns look-a-like in real life.