[ Background: writer Emily Maloney has been sentenced to 8 hours of volunteer community service for riding a bus without a fare, and assigned to work in a second-hand clothes store.]

"[...] After a few hours I decided to ask [the fellow convicts] why they were there, just to see if anyone had tried to run from the transit cops. I asked one guy who looked like he was at work on casual Friday (khakis and short-sleeved polo), and he said he didn't know anything about transit cops. He'd been caught stealing from Microsoft. He'd sold everything using his Microsoft work account, which was first then last name at Microsoft.com. Really dumb, he confided. "If you ever need a laptop or anything," he said, and gave me his card, which had a Yahoo address on it. "Nothing stolen anymore," he assured me. [...]"
http://thesmartset.com/article/article0806070114.aspx
[ Filed under Unwarranted MSFT bashing.]