Quitting One's Job Isn't Forbidden, Right?
Did it occur to her that she was always free to leave (unless Microsoft was a prison)?
The above is one among several dozens of pieces. Many are just slopfarms or churn. It's based upon a letter few slopfarms or slop (con) artists bothered to even link to.
15 years ago I wrote that "Nobody is Born a Microsoft Employee" and it's not a condition one must accept. Nobody is forced to work there and nobody is prevented from leaving.
The above statement (which came with permutations in slopfarms) is baffling. It makes it sound like that lady decided to quit the religion her parents imposed upon her or that layoffs at Microsoft are some kind of exorcism.
When I quit the employer that had defrauded my colleagues and I it was a purely logical decision, premeditated for years already. My wife quit her job on the same day and we're doing OK.
With all sort of myths and false narratives like "quiet quitters" (predating the executives blaming "AI", by which they mean worthless chatbots, rather than blaming "lazy" workers) it's important to remind people that leaving one's job is perfectly OK. Normalcy can blind oneself to other opportunities which lurk out there, maybe just around the corner. For instance, after COVID-19 we gradually quit (not all at once) going to the gym I had gone to for 20+ years. We then discovered that park runs and workouts at home were more pleasing given some rudimentary equipment (acquired over time) and new habits/hobbies. Sometimes people must break out of routines (or have routines broken, not wilfully) to realise that better options exist out there.
We hope that more people will quit Microsoft and then abandon Microsoftism as well. There's a better way to do computing; none of that involves anything Microsoft makes or resells. β