To the 9,000, don’t go back if they ask you to. Seriously.
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.
FYI, this is old news. Layoffs have happened
https://archive.ph/Qm2PQ
Oh no...
Anyway
- Oh, fuck you.
  People need an income, and they work hard to provide for their families.
  Tech employees are people, too. And many of them spent years perfecting a very difficult set of skills that the market is quickly deciding isn’t as valuable as it once was, because their corporate employers regard them merely as resources to be exploited and then discarded at the first opportunity. That sucks.
  It sucks whomever it happens to, be it warehouse workers, truck drivers, call center employees, retail and customer service employees, or office knowledge workers. Just because a person had made a pretty good salary doesn’t mean they haven’t still be exchanging their precious time for dollars like the rest of us, grinding away their life at a job rather than spending quality time with their loved ones and persuing their own hobbies and interests.
  Seriously, fuck you dude.
  
  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.
- 0x0 must be for 0 compassion and 0 IQ.
- 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.
  
  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.
- That would be the C-suite.
  
  That is definitely the C-suite
- No that’d be the executives, you dickhead. Hey - please remember to breathe.
- 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.

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