[Meme] Warming Up With Excuses for Mass Layoffs at Microsoft?

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-07-09 16:00:35 UTC
Modified: 2023-07-09 16:00:35 UTC

Published 39 minutes ago:

Thanks for the "information", CNN

Summary: They already warm up with the excuses, or so it might seem ("it's NOT layoffs, it's HEY HI!"). Preparatory PR? "In January," it says, "just days after Microsoft announced plans to lay off 10,000 employees as part of broader cost-cutting measures, the company also confirmed it was making a “multibillion dollar” investment into OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT." Yes, this decoy and misdirection went nowhere (they lost inertia, lost market share, and lost lots of money on it as well, deepening the already-massive debt)

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[Meme] Warming Up With Excuses for Mass Layoffs at Microsoft?

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