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Behind the PR Smokescreen and Microsoft-Sponsored Chaff, Microsoft Layoffs in "AI" Alleged This Month

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 21, 2026

When the sales are poor and value is bunk:

My husband was let go today from his role at Microsoft. It was a complete surprise to him - he did not see it coming at all and even his manager had no idea. I know layoffs are constantly happening in tech, but I didn’t even see any news about upcoming major Microsoft layoffs in March. Curious if others were impacted? We’re in shock, but the entire tech industry is going through this right now, so we’re not the only ones going through it.

3 days ago, de facto bailouts from taxpayers:

 Federal cyber experts called Microsoft’s cloud a “pile of shit,” approved it anyway

Was Microsoft honest about the layoffs? No.

Microsoft does what IBM does. It does the layoffs piecewise, slow-cooking the staff and going below the WARN radar. Sometimes threads like the above make it into some slopfarms, but like we've seen in Confluent this past week, even about 1,000 layoffs (not kept secret) aren't enough to merit any media coverage/attention. The CEO goes on Bloomberg to boast/flaunt "no layoffs".

In the thread above, one Microsofter said: "There were rumors of big layoff, I guess they are now going with smaller bunch. Anyway, as others said, ask him to take a week of do nothing and then come back strong prepping for interview and job search. It's a really bad market out there though, out of work for six+ months now."

"Same happened to my coworker," said another Microsofter. "Best performance, yet terminated without severance. Every corporation is a piece of shit. This world is run by careless billionaires. I left Microsoft for a healthcare tech company with smaller pay but job security (for now). He can interview and switch teams. Since he has Microsoft on his resume, he should be able to get another job too. But try internally first" (same poor advice IBM gives).

"I also got laid off today from Microsoft," somebody said days ago. "I was not surprised and am so curious where other cuts were."

It says this was in "hey hi" ("Mustafa’s").

"So, the rumors about the MS layoffs were indeed accurate."

Stenography about "Mustafa" from the CNBC media mole of Microsoft last week:

Microsoft shakes up Copilot AI leadership team, freeing up Suleyman to build new models

Fluff from Microsoft... about Microsoft.

In an age when ~1,000 simultaneous layoffs aren't enough to receive any media coverage, what can we expect remaining publishers to tell us about Microsoft layoffs in 2026?

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