Re: Microsoft is running a disreputable spyware outfit

From: Alun Jones (alun_at_texis.invalid)
Date: 11/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:08:58 -0800

Imhotep wrote:
> Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
>
>> MVPs are not paid so how much cheaper can you get?
>
> So in your career you do not get raises for being a MV-whatever???? Then,
> I guess you do get paid for being one...

There are benefits to being an MVP (I used to be one). You get a little
gift, you get an MSDN or TechNet subscription, and you get the ability to
spend time one-on-one with Microsoft staffers in your specialist area. It's
a reward for helping people out (and you don't have to be a suck-up to
Microsoft - just not uniformly anti-Microsoft), and its retrospective -
awarded for the previous year's help. You can't study to be an MVP, and
what worked last year to get you awarded might not work next year.

There have been a few deficits to being an MVP - because the MVP status
implies that you spend a lot of time answering other people's questions, or
helping them use software, for free, it's not unknown for employers to be
concerned that you aren't "giving your all to the company". Mind you,
you're probably better off not working for an employee who views it as their
right to drain you completely :-)

Alun.
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