These reports usually only cover the permanent, fulltime, salaried staff that get the boot. Any report of the numbers of permatemps, h1b1's and other unregistered employees?
Is Bill gonna pay for detox or just send them straight on to a hospice or knackers?
Roy Schestowitz
2009-11-05 13:30:13
Microsoft blogs have already confirmed that the layoffs go beyond permanent staff (undisclosed figures) and there are also pay cuts.
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
"No matter how much financial hocus-pocus they use to reclassify revenues to land in the "sexy" buckets (AI, Quantum), it still smells old and musty - just like this company."
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Needs Sunlight
2009-11-05 13:19:09
Is Bill gonna pay for detox or just send them straight on to a hospice or knackers?
Roy Schestowitz
2009-11-05 13:30:13