Purchasing a product made by your company's competitor

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Had a friend who worked at a Harley plant, but rode a Honda. Eventually the politely asked him not to ride it to work.
 
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Borek said:
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Why would a company fire an able employee based on him buying the wrong game console?

Are Microsoft that "aggressive"?
 
hammertime said:
So I MAY (slim chance, but it's possible) end up getting a job at Microsoft's hardware division, and I may therefore end up working for XBox. If that were to happen, would MS legally be allowed to keep me from owning a PS3?

How would they know you owned it? Seriously. This isn't like a car you drive to work and park in the company lot, it's something you'd buy on your own time and keep in the privacy of your own home. You might not want to brag about it at work, and wouldn't want to have it delivered to the office, perhaps, but no reason you can't have it at home. If they're tracing your credit card purchases and snooping through your house, you have bigger problems than your job being on the line.

Though, from Microsoft's history, I'd be more inclined to think they'd encourage owning and using the competitor's product so you can figure out what good features it has, what makes it tick, and how to copy them into their own product without patent infringement. :rolleyes: