Microsoft's Giant Snowball of Layoffs and PIPs (in 2026)
Last month: Microsoft Allegedly Uses Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) to Hide the Massive Scale of Company-Wide Layoffs | No, Microsoft Did Not Deny the Q1 Mass Layoffs (Microsoft Can Delay These)
Sniffing in (or around) the grapevine, after Microsoft's stock problems we can expect a "response" to shareholders - something in the form of cost-cutting. Expect more layoffs:
This is where the snowball analogy comes from:
What they did last month was, as the stock tanked due to layoff rumours, really not hard to grasp. They could simply delay implementation and lump together several prospective waves of layoffs. Heck, they can postpone and let the debt add up. They would delay until March or April if they wanted to, but then we can expect numbers exceeding 10,000 layoffs (Microsoft always low-balls the real figure/s).
The CEO has already prepared some mindless storytelling about the slop bubble imploding. They just pay companies to help fake "demand" for slop*. They ran out of places in which to "stick" a "CoPilot" something, so they try to sneak into the UI 'estate' of other companies. █
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* Since we've just mentioned Mozilla, consider how Mozilla speaks of "ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Le Chat Mistral" in Firefox (the first two are both Microsoft).
How much did Microsoft pay Mozilla to do this? Mozilla has just been blasted for this in The Register MS. It's gonna be really bad.
