12.04.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Microsoft Layoffs Worse Than Initially Reported
For readers who are only joining us now, here are some previous (and very recent) posts:
- Microsoft Layoffs Actually Began Years Ago, More Likely to Come
- Quick Mention: More Layoffs at Microsoft
- Quick Mention: Layoffs at Microsoft Begin
Todd Bishop did some research and found out that the layoffs were worse than isolated reports had indicated.
Rumors have circulated for months that Microsoft may be looking to sell the Razorfish business, though CEO Clark Kokich told TechFlash last month that there was nothing in the works. However, he didn’t rule out the possibility down the road.
“That doesn’t mean that two to three to four years from now, it might not happen,” Kokich told reporter Eric Engleman.
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G. Michaels said,
December 4, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hmmm. Isn’t it a little dishonest to trumpet up MICROSOFT LAYOFFS when the displacements are being made at a company that was acquired as part of a purchase of another company, and very recently at that?
And why not quote the whole thing:
This is not unlike the constant harping on about the stock price. The economy is in the doldrums, people are getting laid off left and right from everywhere. That you are not affected because you’re not even part of the workforce (what is it that you do for a living again Roy?) doesn’t give you the right to gloat about other people losing their jobs, regardless of which subsidiary of a subsidiary of which company you dislike that happens at.
I guess I know where your nymshifter troll friend and collaborator from Slashdot gets the idea of submitting the same story over and over again with all his sockpuppet accounts in order to game the Slashdot Firehose.
That last part was just to actually justify your silly little warning below
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G. Michaels said,
December 4, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Oh, you actually do this manually, don’t you? I don’t know if I should be amused at the silliness of that, or just plain scared.
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Omar Hafez said,
December 4, 2008 at 10:46 pm
@ G. Michaels
I remember telling you grow up or to go find something else to play with instead of yapping all around this site. Can’t you see you’re polluting it with your utter nonsense?
Go find something useful to do than wasting your time flinging rubbish at people!
G. Michaels said,
December 5, 2008 at 12:11 am
@Omar Hafez,
Whine at Roy. Maybe he’ll add some more red text to my comments
In the meantime, you’re full of shit. Oops *
* Insulting you like this is OK, as I understand it, his friend twitter has done it before to other people with no apparent side effects. Nothing personal though, you seem like a nice guy.
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Susan said,
December 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I see high paying jobs posted on popular job sites –
http://www.linkedin.com (professional networking)
http://www.monster.com (keyword job search)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches jobs based on skills)
I think the media is trying to scare the US workforce.
twitter said,
December 14, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Bishop also adds some background about who Razorfish is.
A more interesting question than why is M$ firing these people would by why they bought the firm in the first place. There’s at least 76 people willing and able to fill us all in.
It should also be noted that M$ is doing a lot of damage control and denial. Craige Mundie is quoted on November 21, here saying:
Lots of weasel words and phrasing there to account for the fact that his company just fired a bunch of their new employees. “Welcome, top talent, to M$. You are fired.”
twitter said,
December 14, 2008 at 9:01 pm
A week after making the above statement, M$ fired 17 people from Fast Search
Soon after being acquired Fast Search was accused of fraud [2], [3].
It is hard to tell if this is real or just part of the usual M$ slog against “competitors” and acquisition targets. If it’s true they are frauds, they are now in good company.