Microsoft - Like IBM - Does the "Relocation" Tricks (Start Over Elsewhere, Then Get Sacked by Microsoft)
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- IBM Goes to India, Fires People in the United States (Under the Guise of "Relocation" or Similar), Accusation of Bribery in the Company
- Many IBM Layoffs, Centred Around Expert Labs US in Atlanta (Offer of "Relocation" Where No Such Option Exists)
- At IBM, Relocation Can be a Trick or a Trap (IBM Gets Rid of Staff Under the Guise of "Relo")
- Companies Faking the True Number of Layoffs With Return-to-Office Mandates and Forced Relocation
- Sounds Like IBM is Preparing for Mass Layoffs/Redundancies in Red Hat, Albeit in "PIP" (Performance Improvement Plan) or "Relocation" Clothing
This post shows something we discussed before. It concerns something we saw a lot at IBM, which is in a state of crisis (a few people milk it to death, there's no long-term future to IBM).
As it turns out, Microsoft 'pulls an IBM' as well. To quote:
So I just got laid off from Microsoft
This is certainly not like the kind of content I ever intended to post on here. I just made this account for like my Twitch and gaming content, but I figured I’d talk about it cause I, I don’t know what else to do right now.
I literally just got an email last Wednesday saying, uh, my position was to be terminated immediately and I was to stop doing the work that I was doing.
I think the thing that pi---s me off the most about this is I moved across the country for this job, right? I, I moved literally from the east coast of the US to the west coast, a 45 hour drive. I left, uh, like friends and family. My wife had to leave a job that she liked and really enjoyed. And I’ve only worked here for 7 months. It hasn’t been a full year.
That feels like huge business oversight, right? To like say, oh, we need the budget for this person. We have the budget to hire this person. And then seven months later be like, oh, we can’t afford them anymore. It’s too much money.
And I still get like two to three months of Severance pay. So that’s nice at least. And I was told it wasn’t performance based, but like I had special clearance access on my team. So I’m the only person that could do like some of the work I was working on and you know I was told it was like high priority. I like I guess nobody can do that work now. There’s a deadline coming up in like two months but like how like there was no reasoning behind it and even like my boss was fired and I talked to like my boss’s boss. He doesn’t have a reason for why I was like there’s no reasoning. Nobody knows it’s crazy and I’ve only worked here for 7 months.
Why the fu-k did they hire me in the first place?
I mean, I guess I just start looking for other jobs now. Um, and maybe try to continue with the the Twitch stuff, whatever see how that goes but just kind of like venting a bit I guess I I don’t know I’m just kind of pi---d off that this job made me move across the country and they only kept me around for 7 months. Feels a little messed up.
Source: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNd5Cy27X/
At IBM the modus operandi is, relocate, reset seniority, then terminate (possibly without or less severance; exit conditions change). It's a well known tactic, which we also saw at the EPO. You make up some fictional and temporary job/role, then move to it staff you do not like, then you eliminate that job/role. "Oh, bad luck!!"
Now enter Microsoft.
"It’s extremely common and wasteful," said the sole comment on the above. "There is a game at play and your player was eliminated. Not trying to sound cruel it really works this way."
Microsoft is nowadays doing this! It is a "low blow" or a "dick move". █