All Microsoft execs and managers care about is a cushy job, nice dining room with great benefits and tons of time off.

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Then, after the damage is done, they resign for a cushy job and leave behind the rubble of failed policies and overly ambitious plans rubble that someone else, always someone else, has to clean up.

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Not any job, a cushy job.

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All too often, these bright and ambitious recruits see work as something to avoid or as a necessary evil to endure prior to winning the lottery, landing a spot on a reality television show, or getting a cushy, high-paying job with a corner office and an expense account.

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But it has its benefits: a secure job, a comfortable retirement, perhaps even a cushy sinecure at one of his company's suppliers.

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The Navigator to feels very lightweight on the head, and the earpads do a fairly good job of keeping things cushy.

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Time was, being an in-house lawyer was a cushy, low-risk (and lower-paid) job than working for a big law firm.

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Brownell left his cushy job as chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs to launch a startup that sells costly, hard-to-explain computers in direct competition with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.

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