February 1st, 2011

There is no longer any pleasure in reading the annual Microsoft injury reports

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Microsoft is required by law to file reports on employees who have sustained injuries on the job. They are also required to post the reports in a location where employees can see them. These reports come out every year on February 1. Back in the old days, these reports were filled out by hand, and reading them was oddly amusing for the details. My favorite from the mid 1990’s was a report on an employee who was injured on the job, and the description was simply pencil lead embedded in hand. Sadly, the reports are now computerized, and there isn’t a place to describe the nature of each injury. It’s just a bunch of numbers.

Numbers are nice, but they don’t tell a story in quite the same way.

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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