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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkm05hwr | Feb 09 03:00 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | MS ghost from the past, remembering how it all started with the layoffs. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I’m an long time Microsoftie advocate and was an FTE for over 10 years before I left MS long ago. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | During that time, when I was first hired on in 2000, there was a feeling of pride, a safety net, a bragging right of being a MS employee of “Microsoft has never had a layoff and never will”. This in itself was a major drawing card for employment and of course all the benefits therein. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Fast forward a handful of years, enter stage left Steve Ballmer. Everything he laughed at, turned out to be a huge success. Let’s go through them all. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ) He laughed at google for investing in a search engine, until google stock went through the roof. Immediately there was a huge push to develop Bing. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ) He laughed at the Ipod. His words (paraphrasing) were “I thought Apple was going to be a serious competitor and here they are putting their money into music. We already have portal music.” Boy was he wrong. Ipod sales went through the roof. Balmer pushed to throw out Zune to the masses to play catch up. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ) He laughed at the Ipad. “We were the first ones to come up with the tablet. There’s no money in it”. Ipad sales went through the roof. He then pushed for Surface to counter that. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ) He laughed at the Iphone but after a healthy track record of having no vision, clearly, his laughter was not so robust anymore. It was more of a nervous laughter of concern. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Stock became flat for a long time. Then one day, Balmer had the great idea to lay some employees go. It wasn’t that MS needed to but it was what some investors thought should be done to prove that MS was serious about change. So they let some folks go and thus the trend began. Thank you Steve for all that you’ve done. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It was at this time, I decided to leave as they also started trimming down benefits. Insurance was no longer 100% coverage but instead dropped down to 80%. Ok, now, the pay and benefits are no longer competitive with other companies. So, I started looking elsewhere. I found a job making more money but only required a 40 hour per week instead of the average 60-80 per week as MS did. I left on good terms and the year I left, was rank | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ed a “1” but even still the hours put in to get that “1” ranking vs the dwindling benefits was not worth it. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Now it saddens me to read that MS is letting people go like they have in such a fashion. I hope the part about no severance for those let go is NOT true and\or a media misprint. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I know that the AI race has everyone on edge and that the stakes are high and its crunch time to throw some serious capital at AI and I hope that THIS is what is NOT driving the layoffs. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The performance rankings vs layoffs, as I remember, was the bottom 10% has to be put on a performance plan. Ok, so if you are on a team of 10, no matter how stellar everyone is doing compared to the rest of the world in the tech, still there has to be 1 person who is chosen as the bottom. So a low performer at MS is still better than most people in that same tech outside of MS but still has to be looked down upon by the MS gods. Ma | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | kes a lot of sense…again sarcasm. | Feb 09 03:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I miss the old Microsoft where it was fun, and you learned, and couldn’t wait to go into work. It’s sad to me what the work environment has turned into from what I’ve both read and am told by others still there that I’ve kept up with. I long for the days of yore but alas, I fear they are gone never to return. | Feb 09 03:00 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | As you play the MS Hunger games of employment, may the odds forever be in your favor. | Feb 09 03:01 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | </a>: | Feb 09 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Feb 09 06:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-02-05-edition/index.html">New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Dead Letter Dept - 2025-02-05 Edition</a></h5> | Feb 09 06:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Feb 09 06:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Between 2025-01-29 and 2025-02-05 there were 17 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 104 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 16.3 % of total released titles. There’s a good stream of good games again this week, with Dead Letter Dept. taking the crown with a very original idea: typing los | Feb 09 06:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | t letters for a data entry job, leading to uncovering things happening in the city… </p> | Feb 09 06:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Feb 09 06:08 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Feb 09 06:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-boilingsteam.com | New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Dead Letter Dept - 2025-02-05 Edition | Feb 09 06:08 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Trump Doubles Down on CBS '60 Minutes' Lawsuit, Now Wants $20 Billion" | Feb 09 06:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-doubles-down-cbs-60-minutes-20-billion-lanham-act-1236301341/ | Feb 09 06:15 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # stenography | Feb 09 06:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-variety.com | Trump Doubles Down on CBS '60 Minutes' Lawsuit, Now Wants $20 Billion | Feb 09 06:15 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkenz8p9 | Feb 09 23:27 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | ""The Power11 is coming in 2025 with new AI capabilities: | Feb 09 23:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://newsroom.ibm.com/blog-ibm-power-modernizes-infrastructure-and-accelerates-innovation-with-ai-in-the-year-ahead | Feb 09 23:27 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/blogs/val-besong/2024/11/12/ibm-power-modernizes-infrastructure-and-accelerate | Feb 09 23:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-newsroom.ibm.com | IBM Power modernizes infrastructure and accelerates innovation with AI in the year ahead | Feb 09 23:27 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-community.ibm.com | IBM Power modernizes infrastructure and accelerates innovation with AI with Power11 processor | Feb 09 23:27 | |
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