05.06.23
Posted in Microsoft, Rumour at 5:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
10 hours ago:
Summary: With deep staff cuts happening in Azure and Microsoft itself questioning the future of Xbox (both already had many layoffs this year), one is left wondering how many rumours like the above it takes to simply reckon that some people high up at Microsoft know “too much”; this morning I heard about a Microsoft manager who is dumping his shares (he lost faith in the company) and I keep hearing about many layoffs coming in July (the commonality in rumours is the month of July)
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04.24.23
Posted in Finance, Microsoft, Rumour at 12:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Microsoft Layoffs Ahead
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Summary: Microsoft’s financial ‘results’ (due in the middle of this week) are already expected to miss targets (set by Microsoft itself), based on media reports from reputable sources; what’s not known, however, is whether Microsoft will announce the next major round of layoffs some time very soon or in summertime (based on rumours this is expected in July)
THE Microsoft layoffs in the past month or so are not part of the “10,000″ announced in January (the media keeps parroting this while ignoring months of consequent and unrelated layoffs, not to mention contractors and “temps”). There are more to come. Expect more layoffs. The word coming from/through the grapevine is that in July (summer, ahead of “results”) there will be truly massive layoffs — on a scale bigger than in January. What remains unknown, however, is whether this week too Microsoft will announce additional layoffs to appease investors; maybe WARN Act can be dodged somehow, but they have until Wednesday to say something (all we see is mindless puff pieces).
“People who still work for Microsoft are very anxious, but they feel unable to leave as not many other companies recruit at all.”Days ago a few media outlets dropped a hint that Microsoft’s results would disappoint in the “clown computing” area (read: Azure), so one can imagine more layoffs in this supposedly ‘strategic’ and ‘growth’ domain. Azure layoffs have gone on every year since 2020 (the media almost never mentions this and trolls from Microsoft are very sensitive about this topic, based on what we saw in IRC).
People who still work for Microsoft are very anxious, but they feel unable to leave as not many other companies recruit at all. As a result, they overwork (for the same salary) and the work they do under stress is of worse quality. Hiring standards fell sharply — to the point where Microsoft hires employees who literally stab other employees [1, 2, 3, 4]. █
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03.28.23
Posted in Microsoft, Rumour at 6:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
More to come:
Microsoft pays the workers to not even talk about it! (See below)
Also see: Layoffs continuing all over the world (hours ago)
Summary: Another round of GitHub layoffs (not the first [1, 2]; won’t be the last) and many more Microsoft layoffs; this isn’t related to the numbers disclosed by Microsoft back in January, but Microsoft uses or misuses NDAs to hide what’s truly going on
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03.21.23
Posted in Microsoft, Rumour at 10:00 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Loss leader “Hey Hi” (AI) is used to distract from Bing layoffs, Azure layoffs, GitHub layoffs, Edge layoffs etc. even if its future is uncertain and there is no viable business model
Summary: Yesterday we shared rumours about Microsoft layoffs being planned for later today (there were 3 waves of layoffs so far this year). There are several more people here who say the same. How much noise will Microsoft make in the “media” in order to distract? Will the chaffbot "ChatGPT" help create enough chaff?
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Posted in Finance, Microsoft, Rumour at 11:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
And it’s already happening, with lots more rumoured for tomorrow:
Summary: Lots of Microsoft layoffs lately and so-called ‘journalists’ aren’t reporting these; they’re too busy running sponsored puff pieces for Microsoft, usually fluff along the “hey hi” (AI) theme
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Posted in Finance, Microsoft, Rumour at 10:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
As of a fortnight ago: (with some comments since then; expect the media to not mention Microsoft’s layoffs and instead focus on Microsoft’s paid-for spam about inane chatbots and “hey hi” or AI)
Summary: Amazon is laying off AWS staff and Microsoft has been laying off Azure staff for 3 years already, including this year, so it seems like the “clown computing” bubble is finally bursting
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02.09.23
Posted in Microsoft, Rumour at 10:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
We’ll resume this series very soon:
This just in:
Weeks ago at thelayoff.com (we took note of it at the time):
Summary: The past week’s media noise from Microsoft (distracting from mass layoffs in Bing and Edge) won’t last long enough to hide the fact that GitHub, still unable to make money, is firing workers; can developers trust this proprietary GPL-violating machine to keep hosting projects/code? Same problem with GitLab, but at least people can self-host.
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01.18.23
Posted in Microsoft, Rumour at 11:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Posted an hour ago:
Summary: There seems to be attrition and resistance; “4th quarter will be a lot worse,” says a self-proclaimed high-up insider. “SLT has already moved into the planning phase. I have been informed damage control has been top of tongue for July.” A separate thread says: “Layoffs will be through end of March for this first round. 4th quarter will be a lot worse” (some say the layoffs started a week ago, some aren’t paid anything in compensation, and the cuts are implemented in phases, so we don’t know yet how many divisions are affected; insiders moreover complain that the media is failing to do its job and isn’t reporting crucial facts)
Update: Another person wrote: “I’d love for it to all be done today, but notifying 10k people takes time. This will probably last throughout the week and maybe even spill into the next one.” An hour ago someone responded with: “This is the first round and hopefully the packages will be good this round. SN already said rough two years ahead. There will be waves of this until the tech section stop bleeding. The packages will get smaller in later waves.” And below that: “4th quarter will be a lot worse. Already being planned out.”
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