Microsoft gives notice of impending pink slips with style (apply purple)

[WebSnyper]

Well, not gonna get me to feel TOO 'concerned' about a couple thousand millionaires getting laid off, LOL...

If you think everyone getting laid off or that works there is a millionaire, then I think you need to come out from under your rock every once in a while.

 

[Mgderf]

Now watch MAC introduce an operating system that will better Windows, and Micro-soft will need to step aside.






Hey, I can dream too.

 

[jamil]

Now watch MAC introduce an operating system that will better Windows, and Micro-soft will need to step aside.






Hey, I can dream too.

Huh? os x.

 

[JettaKnight]

I guess I'm slipping. That hadn't yet crossed my mind. No doubt you are correct--after all, they could probably get 25,000 new employees for 2/3 the cost of the ones getting pink-slipped.

News flash: not everyone at Microsoft does the same thing. Jobs in the tech sector aren't interchangeable. There's no way you can move someone from high speed circuit design over to IDE software design.

I guess this sort of stuff doesn't phase me as much. I mean, tech companies grow and shrink pretty quick, employees just gotta roll with it and never assume a job is forever.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Bill Gates is not cutting jobs, he is just substituting Americans for foreigners who will work harder for less.

Bill Gates Under Fire For Immigration Stance After Microsoft Layoffs

 

[KLB]

Bill Gates is not cutting jobs, he is just substituting Americans for foreigners who will work harder for less.

Bill Gates Under Fire For Immigration Stance After Microsoft Layoffs

Except it sure sounds like most of the jobs in question are not in the US. I only saw a reference to San Diego in that memo. The rest were Finland, Hungary, China and Viet Nam.