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The thread is this.

#1 Troy works for Microsoft.

#2 No Troy doeys, as he clearly states.

#3 Being a Microsoft Regional Director makes him an employee and any claims otherwise are based on some arbitrary semantic distiction, not a real difference

#4 No, there is a real difference. That award is like these other awards and none of them take you anywhere near being an employee.

#5 the arguemnt in #3 is flawed because MRD is confusing and the example title others aren't. (Which misses the point, that using non-confusing examples is much better than using other confusing examples if you want to explain something.)

#6 that doesn't affect the argument being made in #4

#6 repeat ad nauseum

Troy is not a Microsoft employee, no ammount of semantic wiggling will make him a Microsoft employee, no matter how confused people are by the title of the MRD award. That confusion may be justifiable, but doubling down when your error has been explained is not.



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