Microsoft's Head of Business Development Quits (Days After Two Large Waves of Mass Layoffs)
Microsoft is in shambles. It doesn't want people to know about it and it speaks of fictional numbers. It's hoping to look "big" while it's shrinking. This has gone on for years already.
We recently learned that people close to the management are very stressed this month, as they know what's coming (they have access to higher-ups inside Microsoft); can they rely on a corrupt presidency bailing Microsoft out with taxpayers' money (or debt)? It's quite routine that around times of very big layoffs (mass layoffs at Microsoft) the executives suddenly resign. They know things aren't good. We saw that many times last year. They quit before people affected can hold them accountable or ask difficult questions.
With "results" coming soon (more fake numbers or number-fudging, e.g. Microsoft 'buying' from itself) and after two waves of layoffs in 2 weeks (no other company did this badly; it's even in Microsoft's own site, MSN, as of today) perhaps it's not too shocking that the "business development head" is leaving. Microsoft-sponsored [1] and other sites [2] wrote about it, not diving deeper (into causes or context).
The departure, however, speaks for itself. Never mind if those covering it are paid by Microsoft to do that (they also burn sources; they're just media operatives of Microsoft, paid by Microsoft). █
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Filing: Microsoft executive Chris Young resigns as business development and strategy leader
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Microsoft’s business development head Chris Young resigns
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