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Re:Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" by lupire on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:55PM (#40627550)
Because they are afraid to do performance reviews and fire people.

So they layoff and try again, sometimes hiring the same people back.

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Re:Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" by johhns4 on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:23AM (#40631358)
Funny, probably have no communication between these departments either, the people hiring them think they are excellent and then the ones firing them don't.

But the problem never gets solved because the hiring people just go "I don't know at all why this person got laid off, looks great on paper! Let's re-hire them."

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