Kid fires up dad's Xbox360

[wizard]

Lol, look at this guy :sigh:

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000370050882/

http://www.360hacker.net/articles/07-18-2005/first-xbox-360-seen-in-the-wild/

[Krilnon]

It's sad that the dad had just started working there, it looks like they could have used some money to buy a chair...or something.

[grinch]

ah hahaha thats hilarious, I hope the dad looses his job

[Disco-Stu]

That's pretty sad. If I landed a decent job at Microsoft and had to sign an NDA, I'd kill my kid for doing that. Poor guy. That kid should be beaten.

[lostinbeta]

Hah.. well at least he got to try it out because when all this is done his parents won't have money to buy him one.

[wizard]

He could've atleast used a better t.v.

[Maxtr0sity]

Wow, if my dad got fired because of some **** I did, I'd feel so horrible.

[REEF·]

Backward-compatability? Egad! F the kid!

BTW - The hair isn't working for him.

[G]

i'd be gutted if my dad lost ajob because of me too...I dunno what I would/could say :(

[Mik3]

ah hahaha thats hilarious, I hope the dad looses his job

I would never hope any dad would lose his job, especially if he had a kid.

[mdipi]

Well it looks like I'm going to have to clear some more space out for the 360's Power Supply, reminds me of the Mac mini.

You see this tiny weeny bitty Mac, and then a power supply that almost matches it in size :P

Cool photos though, stuff like this always gets leaked, hell its probably Microsoft that did it as a publicity stunt :/

[lostinbeta]

Backward-compatability? Egad! F the kid!

BTW - The hair isn't working for him.

I think his father is Carrot Top.


http://www.azcentral.com/ent/gifs3/0918carrot18.jpg
Oh no! My son got me fired!

[REEF·]

:lol:

Sweet, Im sure carrot works for microsoft.

[Vexir]

:lol: He helps with idiot-proof testing :lol:

[DDD]

if i was his parent, i'd be putting out cigarettes with his face for the next month or so...

But you like how the kid is saying its a photo manip from PS......That kid deserves a sound *** whipping....Maybe they live in thailand and he can get cained.

[Butters]

What I find funny about this whole story is that if his dad 'just started working at Microsoft', then why would they give him an XBox 360 way before it's due for release?

[lostinbeta]

Because part of his fathers job was to test the hardware in the XBox 360 to make sure all is in working order before release.

[B3NKobe]

Thats awsome, wish my dad would bring me home an x360!!

[2nd day]

imagine... being the first non-microsoft guy to play on the xbox 360 at home!!!! really cool...

[Butters]

Because part of his fathers job was to test the hardware in the XBox 360 to make sure all is in working order before release.
Yeah but surly they woulden't give it to a brand new employee, if you ask me, MS walked right into it...

[lostinbeta]

Why not? They hired him for a reason. Would you hire someone and be like 'well you can start, but you won't get the equipment to actually start your job for a while'? That just doesn't make sense.

[Jolly_Fat_Man]

If that was my kid, not that i have any, i'd lock the kid in his room after i cleaned everthing but one dull book and his bed.

You are in there until ur pubs turn white or u move out! u get to go to the toilet, eat and go back to the room... Summer vacation would allow that! If money allowed i'd put him in military school or the army...

[Vexir]

:lol: You're reminding me of Harry Potter man... (the Dursleys..)

[GW02]

My friend gets to play with her dad's xbox360, but only to help him test it (try to break it). From what I hear she mostly fools around with the dashboard... apparently she got it to break so that smoke started coming out of it once.

[Butters]

Why not? They hired him for a reason. Would you hire someone and be like 'well you can start, but you won't get the equipment to actually start your job for a while'? That just doesn't make sense.
No but it would make sense to give a console to someone in the team you could trust more, I personally wouldent give a new employee a brand new un-released console, id only give it to someone I could trust, whatever thier job description was.

It could be any old shmuk who just wants to get their hands on a 360...

[wizard]

No but it would make sense to give a console to someone in the team you could trust more, I personally wouldent give a new employee a brand new un-released console, id only give it to someone I could trust, whatever thier job description was.

It could be any old shmuk who just wants to get their hands on a 360...Yeah I'm sure the guy just walked in one day and they handed him one. :sure:

Plus: they make him sign his life away. :crazy:

[mdipi]

No but it would make sense to give a console to someone in the team you could trust more, I personally wouldent give a new employee a brand new un-released console, id only give it to someone I could trust, whatever thier job description was.

It could be any old shmuk who just wants to get their hands on a 360...

I'm sure he had NDA's up the wazoo, so as far as they were concerned, if the guy cared about his job, and the rest of his life, he was trusting.

It was in his job to test the 360, so they gave him one, I dont know why its so hard to believe lol, its in the job description.

[T-O]

:sc:

[Disco-Stu]

That is pretty big, but still not as big as the last one. What do you guys expect?!?! This puppy has 3 dual cored 3.2GHz processors, a CRAZY ATi card, and a water cooling system. I'm surprised it's not a tower!

[kirupa]

disco - are you referring to the pic in T-O's post? I think the XBOX in T-O's image has been doctored up to look that large. It looks a lot smaller in the actual article pics: http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000370050882/ :hitman2:

[icio]

I would never hope any dad would lose his job, especially if he had a kid.

i think it's eh "standard procedure" nowadays for dads to have kids. just how the cookie crumbles :)

[andr.in]

I would never hope any dad would lose his job, especially if he had a kid.
ahaha... that's like a bush quote or something! :thumb: :lol:


i think it's eh "standard procedure" nowadays for dads to have kids. just how the cookie crumbles
"standard procedure" :lol: :lol:

[CagedApe]

What a damn lucky kid ;)

[kirupa]

The dad still has a job according to Robert Scoble @ MS: http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/07/20.html#a10707 :P

[CagedApe]

Anyone know what the policy on this would be? Would the dad be charged with breaking the NDA when he didn't actually do it himself? I guess it might vary from company to company depending on if there is a clause for this sort of thing or not. Anyone who knows about this kind of stuff care to enlighten me?

[Jeff Wheeler]

Does anybody wonder why the tv isn't in front of him, and it's not really facing him?