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Simulacrum on 13 September 2008

"Robert Delaware was the only named Microsoft worker (a contract employee) who talked — without permission — to VentureBeat for our story last week on the Xbox 360 defects.

Microsoft had him fired on Wednesday. Delaware worked as a game tester at Microsoft but was employed by the temp agency Excell Data. He reported directly to a Microsoft manager, who told him he was being let go because of the VentureBeat article.

Delaware, a 29-year-old Seattle resident, expects to face civil charges from his former employer VMC (which tests games for Microsoft) and Microsoft as well. He will likely have to hire a lawyer. Microsoft spokesman David Dennis said the company does not talk about personnel issues."

“I don’t regret it,” he said in a phone call on Thursday. “I’ll fight it. If they want to come after me, bring it on.”

Link: http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/12/microsoft-fires-game-test-contractor-who-talked-to-venturebeat/

Well...This is so sad.



 

 

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obieslut on 13 September 2008

i like his attitude



goddog on 13 September 2008

he violated an NDA thats what happens leakers take risks if they are not leaking truly illegal stuff, and not doing i through proper channels



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whatever on 13 September 2008

Not surprising. Sad, but this is M$ we are talking about.



erikers on 13 September 2008

I love the misleading, over simplified title. They fired him because he did something illegal, he broke an NDA. That's what happens when you sign one with any company then break it.

 

Now cue a stream of insanely ignorant comments by a ton of biased people.

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chaospluto on 13 September 2008

"He talked to me about how he learned about problems with the hardware while working as a game tester for VMC."

And so, he spoke about how much trouble it was to play games due to the 360 RRODing (indirectly) all the time; go ahead MS /cry

"Delaware said he got some positive feedback at work about the story."

Kind of ironic, imo, him being fired and all.



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akuma587 on 13 September 2008

Gotta love MS.



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Jo21 on 13 September 2008
erikers said:

I love the misleading, over simplified title. They fired him because he did something illegal, he broke an NDA. That's what happens when you sign one with any company then break it.

 

Now cue a stream of insanely ignorant comments by a ton of biased people.

 

no, he doesn't regret it, it was the right thing to do, his conscience its clean.

no matter how you put it, why it isn't illegal to sell such hardware with previews test, and such a high failura rate?



goddog on 13 September 2008

i@Jo21 im sure he will feel even better when his wages are garnished, or he ends up in jail, cant find a good job doing something he enjoys...



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Justin on 13 September 2008

As a game tester and former employee of VMC I can tell you he's screwed.