TV Programs Disseminate False Numbers of Microsoft Layoffs (About 31,000 Laid Off Last Year, Not Including PIPs, Contractors and so on)
This morning: Microsoft's Debt Exploded by More Than 20 Billion Dollars This Past Year, Says Microsoft
This (later) morning: (1 hour ago by Vivek Dubey)
The slide above is a form of misinformation, or even disinformation. The latter is worse, intentional. It pretends that last year Microsoft had only two waves of layoffs. It had over a dozen. By our tally, over 30,000 people got laid off, and that's not even counting those pushed out (or forced into early retirement). Many in China lost their jobs; Microsoft laid off loads of them, but Western media treats them as non-human, or non-existent people. How convenient for Microsoft slop.
This month they told us Microsoft denied upcoming layoffs; but that's fake news, Microsoft did not deny that. It's definitely happening and the longer they wait, the larger the numbers will be. It is a form of aggregation. See the state of Windows and XBox, for example, to realise that large-scale layoffs are inevitable, no matter how long Microsoft delays or procrastinates.
Microsoft is trying to blame RAM prices for sagging numbers (sales), but there are reports of "plummeting PC revenue" and "Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32%"; the real numbers are a lot worse than the numbers Microsoft speaks of.
Pundits who rely on slop also end up feeding the slop (reinforcing lies in a loop). Some of them get paid by Microsoft to sell Microsoft. █
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