Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs

Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by duiker101 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @08:47AM (#8047161)

Ok, I don't get it, what am I missing?

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by meowface on Thursday July 17, 2014 @08:50AM (#8047175)

Sugarcoating mass layoffs with "evolve", "culture", "synthesized", "strategic direction"...

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by bshimmin on Thursday July 17, 2014 @08:53AM (#8047192)

And no fewer than three "synergies" in there. Impressive.

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by Tloewald on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:29AM (#8047363)

"Synergy" is code for we have multiple people/teams doing identical things.

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by 72deluxe on Thursday July 17, 2014 @11:03AM (#8047906)

"I’ll share further specifics on where we are focusing our innovation investments"

Innovation investments? That's a new one! Made me laugh, but not for the right reason!

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by Anderkent on Thursday July 17, 2014 @08:57AM (#8047205)

Or alternatively explaining the reasoning behind the layoffs. But nah, let's assume they lay off just because they want to.

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by watwut on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:17AM (#8047304)

Surely they have business reasons behind layoffs. But nah, they are not written in that mail and blabling used in that mail is horrible.

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by duiker101 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:05AM (#8047255)

I understand now, thanks.

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