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Her Mgr Was Terminated

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Microsoft Employee Shares Her Manager Was Terminated During Meeting: ‘They’re Letting Go Of Good People’

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Written by Tech Desk | Updated: July 3, 2025, 13:09 IST

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Microsoft is laying off nearly 9,000 employees for the second time this year. The Redmond-based tech giant says the cuts are part of a broader strategy to streamline operations, reduce management layers and boost efficiency.

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These layoffs affect multiple divisions globally, including Xbox and other creative teams. While Microsoft says this represents about 4 percent of its workforce, many affected employees are voicing frustration on social media.

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Amanda Goodall, CEO of EdgePulse and known online as @thejobchick, has been sharing firsthand accounts of the situation. One anonymous employee described a team meeting labeled “FY26 Business Strategy” where they were informed that while the team would remain intact, their manager was being let go on the spot. “Many of my peers got similar calls and entire teams were fired in bulk… on group calls,” the employee said in a

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DM.

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Another employee shared, “So, today of my group of 9 people at Microsoft, five of us remain. We’ve been through layoffs before – I think my 3rd day on the job, we let go of nearly 10,000 people. This is different. We’re not cutting low performers or money-losing ventures. These cuts make no sense. They’re letting go of a lot of good people who helped produce record results over the past few years.”

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Goodall also posted a message from another employee:

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“I’m very sad at the talent we’re letting walk out the door, including the best manager I’ve ever had in my life. I think it’s the end of the old Microsoft culture that has kept me here for more than a decade. Not liking the Amazon-style cutthroat ways we’re taking on, and I don’t care if I get fired for saying so.”

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One more employee wrote, “I am profoundly saddened that over 9,000 people were laid off today across multiple studios. I had a colleague who gave well over a decade of effort, only to be dismissed coldly. Meanwhile, shareholders get giddy, and c-suites get bonuses. This needs to end.”

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Microsoft has defended the move as part of an organizational restructuring. A spokesperson said, “We continue to implement organisational changes necessary to best position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace.”

https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-microsoft-employee-shares-her-manager-was-terminated-during-meeting-theyre-letting-go-of-good-people-3901529/lite/

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Let me guess… mostly white, Christian conservatives?

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.financialexpress.com | Microsoft employee shares her manager was terminated during meeting, 'they're letting go of good people' - Technology News | The Financial Express

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# fears a universal file format (ODF) and open source software (LibreOffice)

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"Behind the Scenes, Sam Altman Is Absolutely Furious"

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# Meta (Facebook) is infecting itself with more microsofters and their

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# toxic work culture

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-futurism.com | Behind the Scenes, Sam Altman Is Absolutely Furious

x https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/microsoft_finally_bids_farewell_to/

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"Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0"

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The beatings seem set to continue until AI adoption improves. ®

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Microsoft's latest round of layoffs has triggered an outpouring of emotion from inside and outside the company, with at least one former staffer asking: "How many billions must be burned in the AI furnace before this stops?"

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To be clear, Microsoft has not stated that the latest round of cuts is anything to do with its AI obsession. However, axing more than 9,000 from the workforce is an interesting approach for a business that insists that implementing Copilot tech means customers can boost productivity "rather than cutting headcount."

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Former Microsoft staffer Ned Pyle summed up the feelings of many with a simple question on the Bluesky social media platform: "jfc again?"

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"How many billions must be burned in the AI furnace before this stops?"

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Pyle, a former principal program manager at Microsoft and now Enterprise Storage Officer at Tuxera, is famous for his efforts to eliminate the outdated and insecure SMBv1 protocol.

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Current Microsoft staffers have also been left aghast at the latest bloodletting. Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman wrote: "I know some folks in Xbox who are terrified ... We think our team is likely safe after a 10 percent haircut last time around, but it's scary."

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Those Xbox folk were right to be terrified. According to Bloomberg, the company's King division, which makes Candy Crush, is cutting 10 percent of its staff. Games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild have been cancelled, and the studio behind Forza Motorsport is also facing staff reductions.

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In answer to the question of who will be left at Microsoft once the culling is complete, one staffer, a purveyor of ceramic dinosaurs who goes by the handle of @threddyrex.com, commented: "It'll be three copilots in a trench coat running the show."

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While Microsoft might insist that the layoffs are all about optimizing its operations and implementing "organizational changes necessary to best position the company and teams for success in a dynamic marketplace," some observers are not so sure.

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Cybersecurity expert and slayer of the WannaCry malware Marcus Hutchins remarked: "Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale."

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The beatings seem set to continue until AI adoption improves. ®

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@e0 And what about the h1bs that have their education in the US. I can bet that a sizable portion of the h1bs in MS had at least their graduate education, if not college, in the US. I get it that the layoffs are hard and it's making everyone emotional, but let's not devolve to hating and voicing opinions that we feel are facts.

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@dt facts were stated, not opinions, those are balanced comments from real life experience.

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It gets worse....roll back the clock 5 years, no AI to help, ok...we need more people, yes, h1b's fill a gap, paid less, quality of work less, but regardless, fills a gap.

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Now today....AI tools are good, getting better, do we need lower paid h1b's from a country where the education system is not as good?

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Ask yourself that question, look into the future and state what the right move is, state why, and no rants, and no criticism, let the forum vote and decide...

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@dr Thank goodness you're not in charge of decision making as your bigotry would stop you from making any good decision that's if you could. If the h1bs are so bad, then why has MS and similar companies still grown by leaps and bounds. I bet you would say is the local talent that has made it so. In your hateful head, all h1bs are slackers.

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<admfubar> you need some typos corrected in this article

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<admfubar> https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/07/04/Who_Really_Built_Linux_The_Truth_Behind_the_Code.shtml

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<admfubar> so The superHero(Richard StallMan) Entered, <<

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<schestowitz[TR3]> yes

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<schestowitz[TR3]> but i don't want to change otrhers' workds