Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees

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If microsoft stopped producing anything today, they would still make billions per year for many years

They would, but eventually their competition will overtake them and they will start losing customers and market share. They have to innovate at least a little bit if they wish to stay in the dominant market position that they are in.

As long as they have one employee who just constantly renames products, they will be okay.

Disagree. All they need is a small army of marketers to keep convincing executive idiots they need to have MS Office 365.

To the 9,000, don’t go back if they ask you to. Seriously.

FYI, this is old news. Layoffs have happened

Oh no...
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Don't worry, that guy probably doesn't know what a real career is about anyways for this to know how impactful it is.

Tech employees are people, too.

So were SS officials, ICE agents and US cops, people who work in weapons' manufacturing, etc...
Fuck you right back.

That's your response? Do us all a favor and don't come back.

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Holy shit you morons are coming out of the woodwork this week.

0x0 must be for 0 compassion and 0 IQ.

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Nah as far as I'm aware the CEO is not resigning and there are no leadership changes. They're mostly laying off artists from game studios, software QA, testers, devs they think they can replace with AI vibe coding etc.

Stripping the copper wiring from the walls.

That's such a good analogy

they think they can replace with AI vibe coding etc

The way Microsoft products feel they really can.

TBH the software QA team wasn't doing much all these years.

TBH they fired the QA team a long time ago.

No, really, that's not a joke: They actually fucking did this.

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That is definitely the C-suite

The people who make the products shit are probably in leadership, so their jobs are fine. Even if they run the company into the ground, they'll still be fine with their golden parachutes, already vast wealth, and uncanny ability to fail upward.

No that’d be the executives, you dickhead. Hey - please remember to breathe.

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To lay off? They laid them off on Wednesday, this news is out of date. I was laid off too, fuck Microsoft and all their subsidiaries.

After helping Israel with the Palestinian genocide. Such a great america company! I think we should trust them recording our screens to train a "personal ai".

And hire a ton of temporary H1B visa workers without rights.