“Yet because the company keeps growing, things will stay the same.”
Our reading:
Because Microsoft keeps growing, things there will stay the same.
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What happened
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Why
Zitron says that because Microsoft keeps growing, 'things will stay the same.' He does not define 'things', and he gives no timeframe. In the next sentence he predicts that the system will collapse 'at some point'. A People Matters report of 5 August 2026, citing Business Insider, says Microsoft is retiring its Perspectives peer feedback tool. It says this is part of a wider overhaul of performance reviews that includes simplified rating categories (e1). That report does not show whether 'things' in Zitron's sense changed. It also says nothing on whether growth played any causal role. Without a defined outcome or period, the claim cannot be scored.
Caveats
- e1 is a single secondary report based on Business Insider's account of an internal message.
- Treating particular review tools as decisive would add criteria Zitron did not supply.
Evidence (1 item)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Causal claim
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- because the company keeps growing (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- 'Things' seems to mean the workplace culture he criticizes: the growth-mindset framing, the Connect review process, and AI use in reviews. He does not define it.
- The claim gives growth as the cause and offers no timeframe. In the next sentence he predicts the system will collapse 'at some point', so 'stay the same' is not a firm forecast with a measurable endpoint.
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Source and dates
Where's Your Ed At, The Cult of Microsoft, paragraph 94.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2024-11-01.
Where it was said (1)
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: Where's Your Ed At, The Cult of Microsoft
Yet because the company keeps growing, things will stay the same.
- Where
- paragraph 94
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- We read it
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- full text, public
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