From Developers, Developers, Developers to Marketers, Marketers, Marketers and Thighs, Thighs, Thighs
Business [sic] trips
Summary: Microsoft's media moles spread the lie that only "1%" of staff is affected by Microsoft layoffs (familiar old lie; they also spin that as a routine thing) while Microsoft staff is getting tight with 'travel' money
Fact #1: over time slop gets worse (training set is like some blurry JPEG). Fact #2: People's "smell" for slop improves over time, as they 'train' on slop and can detect it based on prior encounters. Put 1 and 2 together.