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[Knucklepux]

For those that don't know, the WARN act requires any company that employs over 100 to submit notification of intent to layoff individuals. As well as when they're notified, amount of employees and date.

Worker adjustment and retraining notification (WARN) layoff and closure database | Employment Security Department

esd.wa.gov

301 layoff starting Aug 1 and another 830 more employees go bye bye at the end of August

You can also see the confirmed layoffs from beginning of July of over 1900

 

[Sephimoth]

 

[PauloRoberto]

You can imagine how the environment is at MS at this moment... Every employee should (yeah, that is what Im saying) do the bare minimum at work and update their CVs

 

[Arsic]

They canned Romero… you do not stand a chance here unless you're Phil Spencer. He's bullet proof.

 

[LakeOf9]

Copilot demands another sacrifice

 

[Fafalada]

You can imagine how the environment is at MS at this moment... Every employee should (yeah, that is what Im saying) do the bare minimum at work

Maybe that's all part of Satya's Keikaku.
People lower productivity to bare minimum - makes AI boost % look even larger. Flawless.

 

[Nocty]

Artificial intelligence is decimating programmer jobs rapidly.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Great company! Let's talk about the shareholder value and justify it!

 

[winjer]

Meanwhile, Phill being so sad about people losing their jobs.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

Please laser focus 343i. They ruined halo for over a decade. How is this even possible, nobody knows.

 

[mayham2199]

This was already known. It was said several times during the last lay offs that more were coming.

 

[Elios83]

The enigma of success .cit

 

[Knucklepux]

This was already known. It was said several times during the last lay offs that more were coming.

Yes but this gives us dates and amount of employees. Just sharing for awareness

 

[Ronin_7]

You can imagine how the environment is at MS at this moment... Every employee should (yeah, that is what Im saying) do the bare minimum at work and update their CVs

Yeah must be a shit show.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Maybe that's all part of Satya's Keikaku.
People lower productivity to bare minimum - makes AI boost % look even larger. Flawless.

And how an AI is gonna be fed and produce more by the bare minimum data ? :-D

I told here before, MS is not a collaborative environment, every senior member there wants / is encoraged not to share anything, because that is what hold his/her job.
And now that mundane tasks can be automated, this behavior is squared.

 

[Loomy]

At this point I'm waiting to see if Satya can top the last self fellating tone deaf memo to staff telling them "by every known and unknown metric, we're doing better than ever! But we still had to fuck over a few thousand people"

Imagine telling your rattled staff, "hang in there. You might be the next one fired no matter how well we're doing"

 

[kazuyamishima]

Damn!!!

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

"1131 more sacrifices are necessary for Fallout 6 to be greenlit." - Jiz Corden, probably.

 

[diffusionx]

Artificial intelligence is decimating programmer jobs rapidly.

explain why they are trying to hire an equal number of H1Bs then?

 

[Rentahamster]

The firings will continue until morale improves.

 

[poppabk]

They canned Romero… you do not stand a chance here unless you're Phil Spencer. He's bullet proof.

MS have become so powerful they can fire people they don't employ.

 

[Bry0]

I don't really understand what their strategy even is. Is the revenue all services these days?

 

[bender]

explain why they are trying to hire an equal number of H1Bs then?

Maybe they are just walking down the road that Builder.ai paved for them.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Artificial intelligence is decimating programmer jobs rapidly.

How do we know these are programmer jobs?

 

[ProtoByte]

Microsoft is a multinational company with over 220k employees. They're going to keep cutting.

Xbox's cuts, however, are going to get worse as time goes on, not better.

 

[Felessan]

You can imagine how the environment is at MS at this moment... Every employee should (yeah, that is what Im saying) do the bare minimum at work and update their CVs

Good plan to get the first place on the list

 

[LordCBH]

Of course there are going to be more layoffs. Satan Nutella needs more money to funnel into fucking AI, and he can save shit tons by replacing people with H1B's.

 

[Fafalada]

And how an AI is gonna be fed and produce more by the bare minimum data ? :-D

explain why they are trying to hire an equal number of H1Bs then?

I think they'd use the same logic where 10x increased efficiency means shutting down half of your projects. Clearly that's the reason we increase productivity for in the first place

 

[PauloRoberto]

Good plan to get the first place on the list

You must be a fool to think that it is worthy to 'give more' to a company with this culture. I can tell from experience because I WAS a MS contractor 11 years ago, it was 'amazing'how the seniors liked to public despise anyone that showed any sign of 'new knowledge'.

 

[Badlucktroll]

microsoft is bad

 

[Pop]

Phil deserves a raise

Ok

 

[SJRB]

> buy 50 studios
> release zero good games
> fire thousands of people
> close 50 studios

What is this business strategy called?

 

[poppabk]

> buy 50 studios
> release zero good games
> fire thousands of people
> close 50 studios

What is this business strategy called?

EA

 

[PauloRoberto]

> buy 50 studios
> release zero good games
> fire thousands of people
> close 50 studios

What is this business strategy called?

Bring value to shareholders.

 

[Mayar]

Satya Nadella after seeing the progress in AI development...

 

[BennyBlanco]

When we're all laid off, we all win

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Meanwhile, Phill being so sad about people losing their jobs.

*Fixed.

 

[Hero_Select]

> buy 50 studios
> release zero good games
> fire thousands of people
> close 50 studios

What is this business strategy called?

I mean all these firings suck and Microsoft as a whole has been shit, but to say "release zero good games" when they've has some really good games come out recently is disingenuous.

 

[Parazels]

Copilot demands another sacrifice

 

[Fake]

Now, imagine Sony copying Microsoft business model and saying is the best for gamers.

Nah. Not gonna happen to Sony.

 

[demigod]

Phil deserves a raise

Ok

I hear he's up for a Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[Braag]

Damn, will anyone be left there anymore? Soon it'll be the janitor and an AI bot making games at this point. I'm joking obviously, they wont need the janitor cause they can just get one of those nifty robot cleaners.

 

[Gargauth]

 

[SJRB]

I mean all these firings suck and Microsoft as a whole has been shit, but to say "release zero good games" when they've has some really good games come out recently is disingenuous.

Okay name three really good games they released recently.

 

[Parazels]

 

[Chittagong]

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

Okay name three really good games they released recently.

Seriously, how many *REALLY* good games can we say MS has created since the X360 Gen?

Maybe a dozen or so?

Killer Instinct, Gears Ultimate, Gears 5, Forza Horizon games, MCC, Grounded, Sea of Thieves, Ori, Avowed, flight Sim, Indiana Jones, Outer Worlds, Minecraft Dungeons, Tony Hawk 3-4. (15-ish games over two gens) Anything else?

Then look at the Xbox OG and X360 gen in comparison and see how many. Big difference.

 

[Treasure Hunter]

I hope Todd Howard's job is safe.

 

[twilo99]

That's good but they really need at least another 4-5 rounds if they are going to go as slowly as they are with this

 

[Pop]

I hope Todd Howard's job is safe.

Give him another 10 years to shit out a buggy mess