Sent last night to I, Anonymous:

For better or worse, I own an XBox 360. The new dashboard came out last week, and I sure am sorry I was proclaiming my dislike of it loudly on the bus, and while I don't begrudge you speaking up and asking me my opinion before letting me know you worked for Microsoft and helped design that new dashboard, I do begrudge you getting defensive about it when I told you you were wrong.

Sure, I don't work for Microsoft. I don't consume the Kool-Aid every day, being told what to do by my higher-ups, knowing that telling them "no" could inhibit my career, my salary, or my employment. But adding advertising is never an improvement. Adding the Bing toolbar, which your employer continues to force down everyone's throats, is not an improvement. Making the features I already enjoy harder to find, buried under multiple drop down menus? Not an improvement. Services I don't want and can't remove? Also, not an improvement. Ah, but wait... the new layout matches Windows Media Center and Phone Operating System? Super. I don't own that shit and there's a reason I don't.

I'm sorry you're so goddamn sensitive about having worked for who knows how many months for a much busier dashboard that benefits no one but your bosses' bottom line. I'm sure the paycheck cleared, so what do you have to be unhappy about? My friends in the gaming industry work on shitty games every month, because that's what their ignorant bosses ask for. That is the state of the industry. If you don't like your job, quit. But clearly you do like your job, or you wouldn't have jumped to its defense. I was happy to discuss it, but you can't be so ignorant as to think this project you just finished was going to make 100% of the population happy. You pointed out that it might need time to sink in, and I was ready to agree with you, save for the Netflix update, which redefines Horror, Dysfunctionality, and Ugliness all at once. And that only pissed you off.

You live in the city, man. Quit being so sensitive. Your bosses will just order you to fuck up something else next month. That check will clear, too.