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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I wish they would spin the whole games division out and sell it. They have ruined the gaming industry and it’s a sh-t business for shareholders. | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 49 minutes ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:17 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | 15k in 2 months is pretty much crazy | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @at+1jz6chrqj | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | +2 | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | @a2 This is a nonsense take. | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 35 full-time employees, not 35 Devs. They outsource a lot of work to contractors. | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:17 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | -3 | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Good, how can you make a game like Clair Obscura with 35 Devs yet these bloated karen-fests have thousands of managers and employees. Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard. It's time for the DEI hires to pack their sht and gtfo. | Jul 03 05:17 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | Microsoft makes deep job cuts across Xbox division, cancels games | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://financialpost.com/fp-work/microsoft-layoffs-hit-xbox | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Subsidiaries across the gaming organization were told that they would be affected by the layoffs. Microsoft’s Stockholm-based King division, which makes Candy Crush, is cutting 10 per cent of its staff, or about 200 jobs, according to people familiar with the plans. Other European offices, such as ZeniMax, also began cutting employees early Wednesday, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorize | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | d to speak to the press. | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The company cancelled several projects that had been in development for years, including the fantasy game Everwild, in development at U.K.-based Rare Studio, and an original new online game from ZeniMax Online Studios, the maker of The Elder Scrolls Online. Both of those studios will cut jobs as a result of the cancellations, according to the people. | Jul 03 05:17 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Xbox also cancelled the planned reboot Perfect Dark and shuttered The Initiative, one of the studios behind it. In an email to staff, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Bo--y said that the studio shutdown and project cancellations “reflect a broader effort to adjust priorities and focus resources to set up our teams for greater success within a changing industry landscape.” | Jul 03 05:17 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-financialpost.com | Microsoft layoffs hit Xbox | Financial Post | Jul 03 05:18 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyftc6p1 | Jul 03 05:18 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | people feel attached to what they do, it is like your old car who you drove for 20 years.. or 10 .. it is just people. It is lots of mental attachment, that is why you see people go crazy at times during economic downturn and go to bars to get drunk. After 23 years, the toll will take on this guy is heavy. I have my old usps delivery man even step in office and forgot they retired just a day ago. All the colleges/community colleges | Jul 03 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | will soon be filling with older students who hangs around. Seattle housing is going to burst, Starbucks will be filled with disgruntled people complaining, it is the same sh-t as Detroit during Massive car manufacturing layoff.. | Jul 03 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "\ | Jul 03 05:18 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6ajevz | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Fiscal year end, heh.... | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Microsoft is laying off around 9,100 employees (roughly 4% of its workforce) in its largest layoff since 2023. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Affected divisions include Xbox, sales, and other slower-growth areas. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 830 workers in Redmond, WA, received notices on July 2, 2025. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | This is Microsoft’s second major layoff in 2025, following a 6,000-person cut in May and another 300 last month. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The company is undergoing organizational restructuring, aiming to flatten management, boost agility, and focus spending on AI and cloud. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Xbox CEO Phil Spencer confirmed cuts are meant to position the gaming division for long-term strategic growth. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Analysts suggest layoffs are tied to Microsoft's shift from legacy sectors to AI, cloud, and next-gen infrastructure, especially after its $75B Activision Blizzard and $7.5B Bethesda acquisitions. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Microsoft's AI focus includes heavy spending on data centers and chips, with AI now generating a significant share of code in software projects. | Jul 03 05:19 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The company aims to control costs while responding to Wall Street pressure for efficiency. | Jul 03 05:19 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6agdc3 | Jul 03 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Oh, its all fine and good. Keep on developing AI, pour even more money into it. Jobs are 100% safe. AI will NOT take over anyone’s job, all that is over with. Make sure to spend every bit of your bonus’s. Don’t bother with putting money aside at all. Also, any raise you get, go ahead and spend it. Live the good life. Please just keep putting all the effort in the development of AI. | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @aa+1jz6agdc3 | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | +4 | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Microsoft lays off 9,100, yet it has 6,300 H1B requests - visa holders that replace US workers. | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 7 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @a9+1jz6agdc3 | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | -1 | Jul 03 05:20 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | A lot more fat to go. | Jul 03 05:20 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz39vtv1 | Jul 03 05:22 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Now, Althoff going on a sabbatical makes much more sense | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/microsoft-s-sales-chief-to-take-sabbatical-with-layoffs-looming | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @fv+1jz39vtv1 | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | +1 | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | microsoft has over 6300 h1b visa requests out | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | most offering around 80% of the median salary for those roles | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | it looks like they’re cutting u.s. workers only | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | theyre replacing them with cheaper labor under the h1b system | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | there is nowhere to hide | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | replacement in progress | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | Reply | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @fj+1jz39vtv1 | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | +2 | Jul 03 05:22 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | @fc because they wanted the fiscal year to close uninterrupted before the fire sales people | Jul 03 05:22 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/microsoft-s-sales-chief-to-take-sabbatical-with-layoffs-looming ) | Jul 03 05:22 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxgry8gy | Jul 03 05:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | *Employers Cannot Offer Employees Broadly Worded Severance Agreements * | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | PLEASE KNOW THIS! | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | IT IS AGAINST LABOR LAW for MSFT yo ask that you sign away your right to speak about your package or experience per NLRB.They may still try, as most companies do, but they have no legal standing to go after you. They may only go after you for sharing trade secrets. But discussing your pay/experience/package/etc is YOURS to SHARE< | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | PLEASE PASS ON | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Dentons - The Sound of Silence: National Labor Relations Board Rules that Employers Cannot Offer Employees Broadly Worded Severance Agreements https://share.google/f7HZHIm9cRFDRD1iR | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 5 hours ago by Report to NLRB | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @386+1jxgry8gy | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 0 | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Guaranteed to be the absolute last round of layoffs. Its all over with now. Its promised to be the last layoff you’ll see at MS for a while" | Jul 03 05:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.dentons.com/en/insights/alerts/2023/february/24/the-sound-of-silence ) | Jul 03 05:24 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6mff4k | Jul 03 05:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | MCAPS | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Hey MCAPS guys, what are you seeing? | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:24 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | high-revenue sales team of ~20 lost 3 ICs (including technical specs) and two from diff levels of management | Jul 03 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:25 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6r96r9 | Jul 03 05:26 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Double down on AI and let your worries melt away. | Jul 03 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Really pour all that you have, all that you know into the AI knowledge bank. Your jobs are safe and secure. Keep developing AI and help make it streamlined. Everything else will all just work out. Take college courses on coding, scripting and programming. All the rumors of those jobs being under threat via AI is a huge farce. Burn the midnight oil, sacrifice all of your spare time and weekends on learning coding. It can only benefi | Jul 03 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | t you in the future. Trust me on this….you are not in danger of losing your job to AI. | Jul 03 05:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "" | Jul 03 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I understand the hesitation around unionizing, but , having some form of collective bargaining body is the most timely and practical path forwrd... Time is running short IMHO- and many are rightly concerned about losing career momentum, being asked to carry underperformers etc... or seeing jobs moved elsewhere. Without stable employment thse concerns become 2ndary.... Taking some action (will be imperfect), is likely to make a bett | Jul 03 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | er outcome for tech workers than doing nothing. Just my thoughts, and I know how much Unions are hated around here. | Jul 03 05:27 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6w5pp0 | Jul 03 05:28 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Hilarious, koolaid. It has been 100% toxic since 2000. | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:28 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @ag+1jz6w5pp0 | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | +1 | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | It’s to compensate for the enormous spend on AI. | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:28 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @a3+1jz6w5pp0 | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | +2 | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Will there be inflation as tariffs take effect. Businesses are still working through stockpiled imports. The dollar has dropped during recent uncertainty. Normally it goes up as investors move to US markets... The debt to GDP ratio is now at WWII levels. That could mean a big shift in the economy. | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I’m mostly repeating headlines I barely read. Dont know nothing so dont trust me. | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 03 05:28 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | Post ID: @a2+1jz6w5pp0 | Jul 03 05:28 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | Literally replacing us with GPUs | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 03 05:28 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "Melinda Gates shares shock details about what happened 'outside' of her marriage to Bill that led to divorce | Daily Mail Online" | Jul 03 07:32 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | x https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14866177/melinda-gates-marriage-bill-divorce.html | Jul 03 07:32 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | # distraction from Epstein | Jul 03 07:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dailymail.co.uk | Melinda Gates shares shock details about what happened 'outside' of her marriage to Bill that led to divorce | Daily Mail Online | Jul 03 07:32 | |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | <li> | Jul 03 11:07 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-140-esr-focuses-on-enterprise-needs/">Thunderbird 140 ESR Focuses on Enterprise Needs</a></h5> | Jul 03 11:07 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote> | Jul 03 11:07 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>Mozilla has just unveiled Thunderbird version 140 of its widely adopted free and open-source desktop email client, now available for download. The key thing here is that this is an ESR (Extended Support Release) release. </p> | Jul 03 11:07 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p> In other words, designed with enterprise users, institutions, and conservative users in mind, it offers a stable, long-term support cycle for those prioritizing stability and reliability over rapid feature changes. </p> | Jul 03 11:07 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </blockquote> | Jul 03 11:07 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </li> | Jul 03 11:07 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Thunderbird 140 ESR Focuses on Enterprise Needs | Jul 03 11:07 | |
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