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None of the engineering teams I was on at MS had any of this stuff going on.

Heck I was surprised she was being flown first class, with all the cutbacks everyone I know at MS for the last ~4 years has been flying coach even for their first N international flights each year! (I forget what N is.)

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Sales people often fly biz class because their customers are. I don't know if it is the same here, and overseas offices have different rules than Redmond (MS China we never got biz class even though many of us flew way more than N times a year on 12 hour flights).

Friend of mine in auditing had her pre-arrivial days to resolve jetlag cut.

Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up...

Penny wise and all that.

(My info is several years old, hopefully that policy was changed back!)

> Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up...

Depending on how carefully I've been keeping those books, quite possibly :)

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