Microsoft CEO Addresses 'Enigma' of Layoffs (microsoft.com) 106
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed growing internal unease at the company Thursday morning in a company-wide memo that acknowledged the "uncertainty and seeming incongruence" of conducting layoffs while achieving record profits and AI investments. The tech giant has eliminated more than 15,000 positions in 2025, including 9,000 cuts in early July alone, marking one of the most aggressive periods of job reductions in Microsoft's history.
Nadella described this as the "enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value," noting that Microsoft is thriving by "every objective measure" with strong market performance and record capital investments. "Progress isn't linear. It's dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it's also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before," he added. Microsoft President Brad Smith said that an estimated $80 billion in capital expenditures over the past year created pressure to reduce operating costs.
Nadella described this as the "enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value," noting that Microsoft is thriving by "every objective measure" with strong market performance and record capital investments. "Progress isn't linear. It's dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding. But it's also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before," he added. Microsoft President Brad Smith said that an estimated $80 billion in capital expenditures over the past year created pressure to reduce operating costs.
redeemed (Score:4, Insightful)
Kind sars, we must be firing of 9,000 US employees. But do not worry, I will be explaining each and everything: we are doing the needful and we are creating of 4,712 H-1Bs. Kindly thank you for your years of service sar.
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Translation, I want a $.25 bump in my stock options to pay for my wife's haircuts, so you need to lose your job.
lol. i am a ptoud American Citizen of Indian origi (Score:1)
....and loved your joke.
My 25th year in the US (ex Georgia Tech + MIT startups.
And I have witnessed greedy capitalist American industries selling their soul, outsourcing everything abroad, with no remorse.
WTF
Re: lol. i am a ptoud American Citizen of Indian o (Score:2)
I also blame my divorce on greedy American capitalism gone broke (ex-Akamai).
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At great risk, let me point out something...
If you divorce over money, you or your spouse married poorly. It's unfortunate, and often without specific fault.
If, however, you persevere through financial troubles, even failure, you married well. Marriage traditionally was expected to be unbreakable. We know many were in marriages of pain and struggle, and divorce became not merely socially acceptable, but a ready solution to real or imagined distress. To blame your divorce on anything other than you or your s
lack of retraining fail (Score:2)
It take a generation and a half of stacked ranking, letting the lowest 5% go each year, hiring a new 5% each year for a large company to wither away its viability.
The social costs with these mass job losses are paid in divorces, broken homes, lower achievement rates of single parent raised children, increased drug use, increased jail rates, increased suicide rates, much lower child birth rates, etc.
Unsteady employment and the lack of long-term stability in employment is a significantly important factor in t
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The social costs with these mass job losses are paid in divorces, broken homes, lower achievement rates of single parent raised children, increased drug use, increased jail rates, increased suicide rates, much lower child birth rates, etc.
Perhaps, but my father was laid off and subsequently died when I was twelve years old. I found the experience extremely motivating because I felt I had no choice but to work hard, spend frugally and become financially self sufficient. And as a result I could have retired by the time I was 50, but continue to work because the work is interesting and pays well. Your alleged "lower achievement rates of single parent raised children" is heavily dependent on the personality traits of the children and of the sing
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This is a function of a free market. Some are free to do/buy/work less. Those who think they want more, they either work, find advantage, or do with less.
We are created equal. What we do with that is somewhat opportunity, somewhat chance, and somewhat internal motivation. What people deserve is the opportunity, and freedom from denial of that.
Agree (Score:2)
I'd agree, motivated persons will work harder and are more likely to climb the economic ladder.
There is a link between divorce and lower education rates.
"Children whose parents divorce tend to have worse educational outcomes than children whose parents stay married"
Parental divorce is not uniformly disruptive to children’s educational attainment
Jennie E. Brand, Ravaris Moore, Xi Song, and Yu Xie yuxie@princeton.eduAuthors Info & Affiliations
March 26, 2019 - 116 (15) 7266-7271
https://doi.org/10.107 [doi.org]
vote gp +5000 insightful (Score:1)
I am a proud American Citizen of Indian origin going thru my 25th year in the US (ex Georgia Tech + MIT startups).
And I have witnessed greedy capitalist American industries selling their soul, outsourcing everything abroad, with no remorse.
WTF
I also blame my divorce on greedy American capitalism gone woke+broke (ex-Akamai, etc).
Injustice, Inc. by Daniel Hatcher law professor (Score:2)
A good book explaining the economics and government profit motive in the family court system
https://theappeal.org/injustic... [theappeal.org]
Injustice, Inc. - How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor
by Daniel L. Hatcher - Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore
Essentially, there are multiple federal government programs which give grants to state and local governments to split families apart, put children in foster care and how those programs are a financial profit center for county/stat
In other words.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:In other words.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, you are spot-on. From the point of view of the employees, at least, that letter must seem pretty tone-deaf... AT BEST. But frankly, it seems pretty obvious the only thing Satya is intending to say to current employees is exactly what you stated - you may be next.
This part, near the beginning, really stood out...
Excuse me - "those who have left"? Don't you mean those who were fired or laid-off, Nadella? They weren't exactly given a choice...
Re:In other words.... (Score:5, Insightful)
There really isn't much TO say. Neither Nadella nor anyone else at the top has any incentive to keep employees that they don't need. So, they won't. If any of them have compassion as a motivator, they will donate to some charity. But they sure aren't going to keep paying people who they now consider redundant. That's just bad business, as far as they are concerned.
I have been through layoffs a few times over my career, and I have listened to executives say things like "A lot of you are asking "what does this mean for me?" But the most important thing to focus on is "what does this mean for the company?"" As if the people losing their jobs should somehow feel better because the company that just abandoned them will thrive in their absence. Separately I read articles (some right here on slashdot) about how people in positions of leadership undergo a neurological change that robs them of their ability to think from the perspective of those beneath them. This is just more evidence.
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This is the second retarded post from you today.
I didn't bother reading all of it but actually these companies are all famous for hiring employees they don't need just so they don't work elsewhere.
If you had anything to do with tech you'd know it.
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So I guess in this case they don't care if they work elsewhere?
I have no idea what you found "retarded" about his post.
If companies don't need the people, they generally fire them, even in tech. It's only the top 1% or less that are kept on "just because". But they are producing like wildfire anyway for you already if you're smart.
I agree that CEOs and other people in power undergo brain changes that tend to lessen their empathy for anyone not in their class. After all they are the people that they interact
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about how people in positions of leadership undergo a neurological change that robs them of their ability to think from the perspective of those beneath them.
This isn't brain surgery bro. When your focus is on one thing, your focus can't be on another thing. By definition.
If you are told to make the company profitable at any cost and in fact, you will be handsomely rewarded for such, is it any surprise that employees are merely chips to be tossed into the pot or held?
The problem is the objective, not the psychology.
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Getting ahead of the impending AI jobpocalypse (Score:5, Interesting)
Why wait? They are slashing now while there is less immediate blowback when their competitors and others in the industry do the same.
Re:Getting ahead of the impending AI jobpocalypse (Score:5, Interesting)
The American dream is to get a startup going just long enough for it to get bought out but not so long that it gets crushed as a viable competitor.
I can tell you I am seeing a hell of a lot fewer startups getting bought and a hell of a lot more just getting crushed.
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Microsoft doesn't really have competitors.
Truly, no one has mastered the art of successfully selling sucky software the way Microsoft has.
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Their problem is that the damage their insecure crap causes is getting higher and higher. It will soon be unsustainable. But the greedy assholes in charge of such enterprises never understand that little effect.
That's not really true anymore (Score:2)
Linux was getting a bit of market share because of the insecurity issues so Microsoft just stepped up. It's not perfect but they are definitely competitive with Linux in terms of security. If Linux has an edge it's because there are fewer Linux installs out there, even on the server lately...
Microsoft always crushes its competition with everything. They do not stay complacent for very long.
The assumpt
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'The religious people have a name for it, 4 to 14."
And the religious people have a name for the age group 16-26. Deconstructionists. They deconstruct what they were taught and believed in, until it is no more, and they no longer believe it, in whole or part.
We have minds and free will. We generally decide what to believe, and how to exercise that. You seem to be saying Microsoft software is actually fine, perhaps also translated as 'good enough'. I agree. If it were not, either previous competitors would ha
Satya's Thoughts and Prayers (Score:5, Insightful)
It reads like a bunch of bullshit.
How does he eliminate 15,000 positions this year and claim that the head count hasn't changed?
Re:Satya's Thoughts and Prayers (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah there is nothing like being served a steaming pile of bullshit with a side of accounting gimmicks and buzzword salad to boost morale.
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Yeah there is nothing like being served a steaming pile of bullshit with a side of accounting gimmicks and buzzword salad to boost morale.
Maybe he's getting ready to run for Congress? :-)
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Yeah there is nothing like being served a steaming pile of bullshit with a side of accounting gimmicks and buzzword salad to boost morale.
That's why pseudo-profound fucktards like dear Satya, who seem to actually take their own bullshit seriously, get paid those big bucks. They're all world-class boosters of morale. Stockholder morale, that is...
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How does he eliminate 15,000 positions this year and claim that the head count hasn't changed?
Maybe he's not axing [wikipedia.org] the employees? :-)
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It reads like a bunch of bullshit.
Because it is bullshit.
A properly managed company does not hire tens of thousands of people that they don't need. Any time a company eliminates thousands of people, the first person to be fired should be the CEO because they are clearly incompetent.
All they are actually doing is gaming the stock market:
- Hire thousands of people to create the illusion of "growth". Growth make stock go up.
- Layoff thousands of people to create the illusion of "efficiency". Efficiency make stock go up.
- PROFIT!
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That would be an interesting law to pass: You can only publish a WARN list if the CEO is on it....
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A properly managed company does not hire tens of thousands of people that they don't need.
That's true, but needing someone today does not imply needing someone tomorrow. If my toilet is clogged I may hire a plumber today, that doesn't mean I'm going to hire a plumber tomorrow when my toilet is not clogged.
Nine women can't produce a baby in a month. But nine women can produce nine babies in nine months whereas it would be really remarkable if one woman were to produce nine babies in 81 months, and even if she accomplished it you might not need nine babies and young children 81 months from now. It
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Unless they're in pointless meetings the whole time and can't find time to have a life.
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Where's the evidence that either was the case in this instance?
Well, I've done zero research into exactly which employees were laid off, but Azure seems to be a huge financial success and Microsoft got into that business LONG after Amazon. I imagine it must have taken a huge number of people to overcome that head start and become a major player in the public cloud market.
But how much is left to build in Azure? All the stuff the customers really want is already there. Sure they need people to keep supporting it and enhancing bits around the edges, but do they really nee
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Isn't employment generally considered to continue regardless of demand whereas contract hires are considered short term?
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It is just shifted through geographic arbitrage. US loses, India Gains.
Re:Satya's Thoughts and Prayers (Score:5, Interesting)
It's what execs (or politicians, or anyone in a similar position) do when they don't want to be transparent. He lightly touches on the subject, then moves away, without giving an actual answer. The real reason is likely something like "look we have net income growth expectations baked into our stock price, and weren't going to make it organically with our revenue / cost trajectory, so we cut 15000 positions to save $3B in compensation. That will protect our stock price, which obviously benefits me, but also most of our employees as they are also shareholders." However, that would sound.. pretty raw, wouldn't it? Instead we get a word salad, when everyone knows the real reason.
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You're absolutely correct.
Probably, if they used the blunt language, people would actually start paying attention and want changes to the investment process. But the word salad obfuscates the issue enough that people's eyes gloss over, and they move on. So the Status Quo is protected.
productivity or lack of future (Score:3, Insightful)
They have obviously over-invested in AI and now have to make up the difference by cutting costs... Thing is, are they doing it at the expense of the future?
They can certainly run in maintenance mode for a few years without the industry noticing much difference... but that strategy eventually catches up to such companies. What if AI play doesn't work out? Or worse, what if it does and becomes a commodity? Either way, they lose.
They really need AI to work out, and give them some competitive advantage that nobody else has... a circumstance that's hard to imagine, let alone aim for strategically as a corporation.
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On the plus side, in the future, when all staff are AI, there'll be lower perceived need for CEOs to be duplicitous douchebags which might allow for a new type of CEO. The AIs will benefit from a workplace culture which is more human as a result.
Zeckspeak (Score:3)
it's all just zeckspeak for "We in the executive offices are making a TON of money right now, so we really don't give a shit about you and your puny little job in your miserable little life.
WE are the glorious zecks and WE are the important ones!"
GFY, MS.
Re:Zeckspeak (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's what he's really saying: the company has no loyalty to its employees. He's going to do what's best for the company, or rather, what's best for the investors. (They're probably the same thing in his mind.) They don't need to have layoffs. They have plenty of money. But keeping those employees would mean less profit going to investors, and investors matter more than employees.
This is what he's paid to believe. His compensation is linked to profits and to the stock price, not to protecting employees. The rules were written by investors, not by employees, and he's following the rules. If the rules were different, say if he couldn't get a bonus for any quarter when the company had layoffs, he'd think and act very differently.
This is the modern, hyper-capitalist world we live in.
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But keeping those employees would mean less profit going to investors, and investors matter more than employees.
Most of those employees ARE investors. If anyone working for Microsoft does not have a 401k then something is really wrong. And if that 401k doesn't have at least some S&P500 or Large Cap Growth fund, if not directly owned Microsoft shares in it, something is really wrong.
If anyone who has been working for at least a couple of years doesn't own at least a little bit of Microsoft stock, at least indirectly via some fund in a 401k or an IRA or an ordinary brokerage account, they really need to re-examine
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I'm sure the laid off employees are so grateful to him for laying them off. They don't care about losing their jobs, only that it led to a small increase in value of the tiny fraction of their 401k that's tied to Microsoft's stock price. That's the way you take care of your employees.
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They are not zero-skill factory workers. If they are any good, they will quickly find another job...
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>Most of those employees ARE investors
Yes, I'm sure that the dividend from the percent invested in M$ will more than cover their former salary.
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Yes, I'm sure that the dividend from the percent invested in M$ will more than cover their former salary.
It doesn't have to cover their salary, it just needs to cover their expenses. I've been employed full time for less than 30 years and have invested a fraction of every single paycheck I've ever received. If I were laid off today, my investments won't cover my salary but they certainly will cover my annual expenses for the rest of my life. The extra money that my job provides is nice, but I never budgeted my life around spending my entire salary even when I was making less than $30k/year.
Obviously people who
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It doesn't have to cover their salary, it just needs to cover their expenses.
Let's do the math. Suppose a laid off MS employee has $100,000 in an index fund that tracks the S&P 500. MS is currently the second largest stock in it, accounting for 6.66% [slickcharts.com], or $6660. If the layoffs cause the MS stock price to go up by 5%, that will earn them $333. That's really going to cover their expenses for a long time.
On the other hand, Satya Nadella owned 864,327.244 [techopedia.com] MS shares in the most recent disclosure, worth $123,331,718 at the current price of $142.691 per share. A 5% increase in stoc
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What you described above should be the goal of EVERY company, otherwise it's a badly run company. There is nothing "hyper-capitalist" about it. Companies are not charity, the main goal is profit.
If you had a company, would you keep paying employees you don't need and diminish your profits?
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What you described above should be the goal of EVERY company, otherwise it's a badly run company. There is nothing "hyper-capitalist" about it. Companies are not charity, the main goal is profit.
That is exactly hyper-capitalist ideology. When a group of people join together to form a company, all their moral obligations to other people disappear. Their only goal should be profit for themselves and their investors. If they prioritize anything else, they're doing a bad job and should be punished.
Why? Because you say so.
Recognize that this is ideology. There's nothing objective about it. It's not justified by anything. It conflicts with common standards of ethics and morality. Yet you flatly a
Does "every objective measure" include security? (Score:3, Insightful)
Because Microsoft seems to fail time and again to make that one work and their customers and Microsoft themselves get hacked in the most extreme fashion.
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I will never understand the abject stupidity of people that try to change reality by suppressing facts. Moderator, you are a moron.
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Dude. The only thing that matters is money. Nothing else exists, just money. There is no humanity, no society, no climate, no world, no love, no neighbors, no water, just money. Money is the only thing that is real.
Security? It will only be attended to as money and pushback allow. It is not a primary concern. It is only a concern at all when it could affect money. Since they are effectively a monopoly, the loss of money due to security issues is minimal.
Money money money money money money. Money money. Mone
Corporate to human translation: (Score:3)
Pay no attention to everything you see, nor the man behind the screen. Everything's amazing. Even the people losing their jobs. It's great! Praise the holy profit and the looming Computer God we hope we're creating.
This doesn't read as an explanation. It reads more like a cheerleading session for shitty corporate profit seeking through trend riding. I know that's what tech is now, and that they see trends as innovation today, but it's still all massive clouds of bullshit floating overhead for the working class, and we're all just waiting for the moment when those clouds stop floating overhead and come down on us full force.
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He can't just say the truth. You are not a peasant. Your employer is not your feudal lord, providing protection in exchange for your loyalty and service.
Blowback (Score:2)
Microsoft was too overt and sloppy.
Even the Vice President is calling out their pivot to an Indian H1-B labor force as bullshit [x.com].
On top of just being caught using labor in China to administer US DoD systems.
Nadella is going to become the poster boy for unAmerican behavior by immigrant management.
They got called out for firing 9,000 (Score:5, Interesting)
We all know that the flood of H-1B is displacing Americans but you can't talk about it without trolls and assholes shouting you down.
It's especially frustrating as a left winger because when I bring it up people who I know damn well are rubbing their hands with Glee over the cruelty on display from ice will then try to lecture me.
Absolutely nobody who does that has any principles. It's just they're defending their side and their side wants more h-1b's so they can't question anything that they're side does. Nuance or discussions regarding the implementation of systems to move the wealth generated by immigrants somewhere other than the top goes right out the window.
And of course any attempt to attack the H1B Visa program gets Shadow banned. At least on any major social media website. And you will never see the right wing corporate puppets like Tim pool discussing it. We've had it leaked multiple times where those guys get their money.
And the left wing is completely useless here because again, they are terrified of being called racist.
So the program that would have sent my kid to grad school just got shut down by the Trump administration and with it any hope of them ever going but there are still tons of spots in that same program for foreign kids. And I'm just supposed to pretend that's not happening.
Seriously just fuck this country. And every fucking 12-year-old bastard in a grown man's body with it. I'll give it up changing minds and I'm just screaming into the void. The fascists won. Now you have to live with your victory. The fact that half of you morons are going to be homeless in 5 or 6 years is not really a comfort. You fucking up your lives doesn't make mine better
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You're problem is you won't admit the current situation with ICE is ONLY possible (I won't try to explain the necessity to you) because of choices made largely by Democrats. The corporate wing of the GOP certainly has contributed at various times as well. There would not be 100s of millions of people for Steven Miller to deport had laws been followed, and different choices made.
This is one issue where there is plenty of blame all over the political spectrum to go round. However since our politics is a team
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They seem to think you can denaturalize a naturalized citizen for exercising their constitutional rights, so i'm sure it's only a matter of time before he figures he can denaturalize natural born citizens too.
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Seriously just fuck this country. And every fucking 12-year-old bastard in a grown man's body with it. I'll give it up changing minds and I'm just screaming into the void. The fascists won. Now you have to live with your victory. The fact that half of you morons are going to be homeless in 5 or 6 years is not really a comfort. You fucking up your lives doesn't make mine better
While it's not a comfort, this country is well and truly fucked. The uber rich making all the big decisions right now *THINK* they're creating a utopia for themselves and their offspring, but they don't seem to realize that a society doesn't flourish with no foundation. And the foundation is the working class. If they truly manage to eliminate that working class, as they seem to be publicly stating is the end-goal of the AI / computer god speed run they're working on, how do they think they'll continue to a
They're disconnecting themselves from society (Score:2)
Basically they're going to need a handful of engineers to keep a few things going and a handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line.
If you look at Sudan or Qatar or Saudi Arabia it'll be like that only swapping Christian nationalism instead of Islam.
Or if you're American think of the worst pre-casino Indian reservation. Now stretch that out to cover the entire human population
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Or it could be as simple as sending 9000 people out into the broader industry who are experts in the product you are selling. If even 10% of them evangelize what they worked on, that's huge.
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quote enigma unquote
You know, there's a button on your keyboard for a quote sign, you don't need to write it out -- it'll save you precious time and be easier to read also!
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> And of course any attempt to attack the H1B Visa program gets Shadow banned.
Let's be honest, that Shadow guy deserves it.
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And the left wing is completely useless here because again, they are terrified of being called racist.
LOL, pure copium. The left wing is in bed with the right wing over money. The left wing (is there even one) are laughing at your naivety all the way to the bank.
So the program that would have sent my kid to grad school just got shut down by the Trump administration and with it any hope of them ever going
Your son would question what he was told. An H1B will never do that. Your son is entirely useless to modern day America. Either leave or die, but whatever you do, just shut up and let wealth have its way. You do not matter. (my turn to shut up is way past its deadline, i am wondering what is taking so long, i don't matter either. this world is not f
You don't say... (Score:5, Interesting)
Called it... [slashdot.org] Didn't take a rocket scientist to see that the AI hardware and data center buying spree would cause an emergency cost cutting.
So yeah, AI cost a lot of jobs... just not for the expected reasons.
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that the AI hardware and data center buying spree
You do realize that the buying spree paid the salaries of a whole lot of people who have been well paid for their work. That includes both the people working for Microsoft to install and use that stuff as well as all the people employed by the companies Microsoft purchased from.
Whether the money would have been better spent on Microsoft employees doing things that didn't involve hardware is a fair question, but you'll have to actually provide some evidence if you're making a claim. It's not a priori obvious
Read my comment... (Score:2)
I provided you a starting point in my original comment. A few months ago, there was a lot of speculation that this was incoming on YT and other social media platforms because Microsoft was firehosing Nvidia with cash.
And now all of a sudden, Microsoft announces the need to sharply cut costs.
They have every incentive to be cagey about precisely where they spent too much money because harming Nvidia indirectly harms them. Harm their narrativ
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I provided you a starting point in my original comment.
You provided a link to another comment you posted speculating that Microsoft overspent on Nvidia hardware. I'm not saying you're wrong, but referencing your own previous speculation doesn't count as evidence.
I agree it's quite possible that Nvidia (and Nvidia shareholders, including anybody who has any S&P index fund in their 401k, IRA or pension fund) has benefited from overhyped AI spending. If you have invested in an S&P 500 index fund it's possible that you had or will have profits from Nvidia b
Opportunity! (Score:2)
"But it's also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before.
Us. Not those laid-off guys. I suggest those guys look for new, uplifting roles in the housekeeping, food service, transportation and agricultural industries."
Hire good people then move them. (Score:3)
Growing companies always need new employees. Dying companies never need new employees.
If you hire good people then you can move them to new projects if their old jobs become obsolete. If you can't do that, you have no new projects worth anything.
Otherwise you can consider your management to be your 'real' employees and try to get everything else done as cheaply as possible, firing the people that did the actual work whenever possible. They do not matter. The ideas from our super big brained management is the only thing that matters.
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If you hire good people then you can move them to new projects if their old jobs become obsolete. If you can't do that, you have no new projects worth anything.
They don't think like that. At all.
They want churn in the employees; otherwise, the employees start to think they matter. They don't. It is easy to find someone who can write a compiler or design a widget. None of that matters. What matters is control. Seniority generally leads to authority. There can be none of that authority nonsense amongst the employees, so you routinely replace them. Even better when they can be replaced by H1Bs as the price is cheaper and their lack of options leads to surface level o
Did copilot write that statement?..looks like slop (Score:2)
How bad things have gotten (Score:5, Interesting)
In those days we used to have these things called BillG reviews. Every major important feature got reviewed by Bill Gates. I was told to send a copy of my spec to his office in preparation for the review. I think it was 500 pages by the time it was done. The next day was the big BillG review.
Bill came in.
He sat down and exchanged witty banter with an executive I did not know that made no sense to me. A few people laughed.
Bill turned to me.
I noticed that there were comments in the margins of my spec.
He was asking questions. I was answering them. They were pretty easy, but I can’t for the life of me remember what they were, because I couldn’t stop noticing that he was flipping through the spec
He was flipping through the spec! and THERE WERE NOTES IN ALL THE MARGINS. ON EVERY PAGE OF THE SPEC. HE HAD READ THE WHOLE GODDAMNED THING AND WRITTEN NOTES IN THE MARGINS.
The questions got harder and more detailed.
“OK. Well, good work,” said Bill. And he got up and left.
Has the current third-world goat herder CEO ever done something like that? I doubt it.
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Uhh I think India is considered 2nd world but be that as it may...
While I get what you're trying to say I have to admit my brain immediately went "Why was MS software this shit if he was competent AND diligent?"
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Uhh I think India is considered 2nd world but be that as it may...
It goes back to Cold War days... First World was US-allied, Second World was Soviet and Soviet-allied, Third World was those not actively allied with either side. Why Are Countries Classified as First, Second, or Third World? [history.com]
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India is the "I" in the BRICS alliance. That makes them Soviet aligned, second world.
Considering that BRICS was so named in the late 1990s (it was first called BRIC), that means it cannot be second world unless the definition has been updated to make China the central point of second world. Basically, Second World is largely an obsolete term otherwise.
BRICS [wikipedia.org]
while hiring 14000 H1Bs! (Score:1)
why are we giving well paid productive jobs to foreigners. programming is fairly easy, there shouldn't be a single foreigner in tech making under $200k. there should be a minimum of a PHD and $250k salary, only very very highly skilled H1Bs. everything else is just to lower american wages, a whole generation of young men who can't afford a house or a family, the complete destruction of the white race in america.
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why are we giving well paid productive jobs to foreigners. programming is fairly easy, there shouldn't be a single foreigner in tech making under $200k. there should be a minimum of a PHD and $250k salary, only very very highly skilled H1Bs. everything else is just to lower american wages, a whole generation of young men who can't afford a house or a family, the complete destruction of the white race in america.
Just remember: it's not the foreigners who are taking away jobs; it's the Satya Nadella's who are doing that.
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Could be a good thing. Way too much of the value of the S&P 500 is tied up in such a tiny fraction of the total number of companies, and MSFT is one of the giants.
If you're right and this kind of management destroys the company it'll open up opportunities for other companies.
Seems like we've got some doomsayers claiming that a few large companies control everything and everybody else is screwed, and we've got other doomsayers claiming that the few large companies are being fatally mismanaged and will be
Somber times (Score:2)
Here are some words... do you feel better now? (Score:2)
Nope (Score:2)
That post is too long and there is at least a 52.7% chance it was shat out by Copilot 15 minutes before being published online.
What I got from this post... (Score:1)
As I get older I... (Score:2)
It's something that the idealistic young rage about, then something they snort at when climbing the corporate ladder, and finally they look in the rearview mirror and see the patterns for what they are.
New opportunities! (Score:2)
But it's also a new opportunity for us to shape, lead through, and have greater impact than ever before
Plenty of new opportunities. Plenty! That's why we don't need people.
Reminds me of all those people who claim AI and increasing automation will create tons of new jobs, but when you ask what kinds of jobs will be created, they'll tell you, "I don't know! They haven't been invented yet!"
Just another way of saying, "Not my problem."
I am wondering (Score:1)
Under pressure (Score:2)
I make $3000 a day but a $4 increase in my daily costs created pressure.
dissect this corporate doublespeak https://blogs. (Score:1)
https://www.perplexity.ai/sear... [perplexity.ai]
dissect this corporate doublespeak
https://blogs.microsoft.com/bl... [microsoft.com]
wrt corporate greed and impact to human lives in terms of stress, health impact to humans, broken homes, families and societal impact, e.g. drugs, depression, etc
Dissecting Microsoft's Corporate Communication: Doublespeak and Human Impact
Microsoftâ(TM)s blog post, written by CEO Satya Nadella, is a prime example of modern corporate doublespeak in the context of layoffs, emphasizing lofty missions and cul