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[Ozzie666]

They need to get rid of their paid influences like Pearce, Eastwood etc. Whomever is on the pay roll or they have deals with. They've obviously done a bang up job and influced the console into the top spot right.

Bonuses awarded soon for meeting targets with millions to board members for a job well done. Share holders rejoice.

 

[Daniel_Mallorca1985]

They might be getting ready to acquire Take Two.

 

[Mattyp]

Not going through all that. But no....usually companies that are massively rich and raking in even more profits and beating Wall Street expectations do not lay off thousands. If this were a case of a failing division that was being closed or something along those lines then sure, but it isn't. It's just greed.

That's a cop out response and you know it, what in the world is the point of paying someone to sit in a chair if they're not doing a single dot of work.

Because we feel bad automation has taken their job? Come on man..

These layoffs won't end as AI ramps up and Microsoft is only the tip of the iceberg. Time for people to retrain like the chimney sweeps…

 

[Bungie]

They'll never fire me from my shill for hire role! I'm too good at it!

 

[Topher]

That's a cop out response and you know it, what in the world is the point of paying someone to sit in a chair if they're not doing a single dot of work.

Nah...it is a perfectly valid response. You just don't like it. What is a cop out response is this notion you dreamed up that Microsoft was paying 6,000 people to do nothing when there is no indication that was the case at all.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

wtf is Rare doing?

 

[UltimaKilo]

Why are people assuming AI is the reason? Article clearly says:

Not that layoffs are ever good, but they're reducing middle management, not developers.

This just says a lot of people on Monday might get an email that their boss has been replaced by AI…

In all seriousness, this was to fix efficiency and culture at Microsoft after a study performed by The Core Strategy Group. There was too much bloat in management holding back progress.

 

[PeteBull]

They might be getting ready to acquire Take Two.

U might be onto something:
Step1: Aquire take2 for some wild 200-300b usd.
Step2: Still make sure sony gets gta6 and on top ps5pr0 has best console version while series s version is blurry mess with dips under 20fps.
Step3: Be surprised xbox hardware and software doesnt sell like at all.
Step4:

 

[Mattyp]

Nah...it is a perfectly valid response. You just don't like it. What is a cop out response is this notion you dreamed up that Microsoft was paying 6,000 people to do nothing when there is no indication that was the case at all.

You think AI hasn't replaced menial code work at best? I'm sure they where doing something at some stage, that job is now no longer required.

The same as the train driver used to drive the train, I no longer need to pay him to sit in the seat anymore to get to my destination but at all.

Anyone in basic tech should be retraining, did so 15 years ago myself when out sourcing first started from western nations to third world now it's out sourcing again, I didn't sook about it, no one's entitled to anything and everyone's replaceable.

Argue for universal income and real taxation of trillion dollar companies if you take real issue that Microsoft should keep paying techs just because they can afford to.

 

[Topher]

You think AI hasn't replaced menial code work at best? I'm sure they where doing something at some stage, that job is now no longer required.

The same as the train driver used to drive the train, I no longer need to pay him to sit in the seat anymore to get to my destination but at all.

Anyone in basic tech should be retraining, did so 15 years ago myself when out sourcing first started from western nations to third world now it's out sourcing again, I didn't sook about it, no one's entitled to anything and everyone's replaceable.

Argue for universal income and real taxation of trillion dollar companies if you take real issue that Microsoft should keep paying techs just because they can afford to.

You are going down a rabbit hole with this my man. I'm not following

 

[Goalus]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

 

[KungFucius]

I hope they fired the asshole who added the copilot marketing nags to the power platform interface. That piece of shit deserves economic strife for the millions of minutes he has caused companies to waste getting those fucking nags to go away so they can work.

Who am I kidding, that asshole is probably now a VP of marketing.

 

[bad guy]

fuck AI seriously. I feel awful about the future, people need jobs...

No they don't. They need goods and services. Humanity should strive to free it's self from most work, to spend more time on meaningful things. Maybe start with a robot/AI tax, treat them as workers.