Microsoft Celebrates Anniversaries With M&M’s

How do you celebrate your employment anniversary? Do you even celebrate it? Probably your boss doesn’t even know the date or even how many years you have been working for them. I know, it is sad. But it is a reality in today’s corporate America unless you work for one of those cool companies such as Adobe, Google, blip.tv, Facebook, or Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft is still cool… and rich.

Softies (how Microsoft calls their employees) celebrate their anniversary at Microsoft with rounded-colorful candies: M&M’s. Each employment anniversary, a Microsoft employee (or Softie) is expected to provide one pound of M&M’s for every year they have worked there; no matter your department or title.

Math-Hat on: The average M&Ms’ package weight about 1.69 oz., which is about 0.105625 lb. So basically, Softies have to provide 10 bags (the size we usually buy at vending machines) of M&M’s their first year. If it is your 20th anniversary, you would have to bring 200 bags of M&M’s. Absolute accuracy of this information cannot be guaranteed, a good faith effort has been made to ensure validity.

Luckily Bill Gates is a rich individual. He has been working at Microsoft since 1975, meaning that in 2011 he has to come up with 360 bags of M&M’s. Now we know why Mars’ M&M’s brand is so profitable.

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