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Re:What was behind Microsoft's layoffs of over 20k people in... by jpadkins on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:56PM (#37646970)
your father worked for free for 40 years? your father had a chance to negotiate for ownership of the company, but didn't. And now you expect the owner to give up a stake during a sale?

An analogy would be if you hired someone to build a deck on your home (and you paid them for the job), and then expected to get 5% of your home value when you sold it 10 years later. That is not expected in a civilized society.

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Re:What was behind Microsoft's layoffs of over 20k people in... by wing-_-nuts on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:13PM (#37648175)
Congrats, you're the second person to fail reading comprehension today, and it's less acceptable given I've already addressed this in another comment on this same thread. No where did I say I expected the owner to grant equity. My beef is laying off my father with zero notice and NO severance after 40 years of work.
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