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Earlier This Year Microsoft's Chief Liar Frank Shaw Lied About the Layoffs. Now He's Leaving.

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 11, 2026

Just noticed:

Microsoft Comms Chief Frank Shaw To Leave After 17 Years

Some recent articles about him:

2022-07-31 Inside the Minds of Microsoft's Media Operatives — Part IV — “Same Sort of Journalistic Bias Infecting Russia at the Moment”
2024-01-30 Microsoft's New President for Activision Blizzard Has No Background in Technology, Just Like Frank X. Shaw (Whom Microsoft Took From the Military for Propaganda)
2024-04-02 Beware the Microsoft Spin in Microsoft- and Bill Gates-Funded 'Media' (the Real News is More Layoffs at Microsoft, Revealed This Month and Definitely Not a Prank)
2025-03-06 Microsoft Laid Off Several Thousands of Workers (Not Counting Those Driven Out) in 3+ Waves of Layoffs in 2 Months in 2025
2025-12-05 Links 05/12/2025: Slop Harming Democracy/Elections, More Bans Around the World on Kids' Use of Social Control Media
2026-01-09 No, Microsoft Did Not Deny the Q1 Mass Layoffs (Microsoft Can Delay These)
2026-01-09 Microsoft Isn't Denying the Mass Layoffs
2026-01-10 2026 Might be the Year Microsoft Replaces Layoffs With Mass Firings (No Severance Payments to Dismissed Staff)
2026-01-12 Bracing for Microsoft Layoffs, Tired of Microsoft Lies, Microsoft Staff Wants Transparency, Not Face-Saving Coverup From Frank Shaw
2026-02-21 Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied, There Are Definitely Microsoft Layoffs
2026-02-28 Microsoft Mass Layoffs Have Officially Resumed, Microsoft's Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied
2026-05-13 Mainstream Media: Microsoft Says No Layoffs. Microsoft: OK, There Are Layoffs.
2026-05-20 Links 20/05/2026: Looting of Americans for "White Grievance Reparations Fund"; "Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Bully Native Hawaiians"

Microsoft has secret mass layoffs. Microsoft has had secret mass layoffs for quite some time. Forget the numbers referred to by the media; it's spoon-feeding by Microsoft's PR, those are not the real numbers. Microsoft uses many of the same tricks as IBM to hide the mass layoffs and a day or so ago a Microsoft insider explained what had been done to him: "Hi everyone, just like many other Microsoft folks this year, I was blindsided and given a PIP/GVSA option and I’m choosing GVSA as the PIP is designed to fail me."

It's the typical false PIP/GVSA dilemma, wherein the company 'convinces' staff to leave.

Earlier this year Microsoft's Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw lied in the form of a tweet about layoffs. It later turned out that the rumours were right and Microsoft lied.

The liar is now leaving. That alone says so much as he's nowhere near retirement age. Being a professional liar, he's lying about the reasons he's leaving. █

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