Comment on Former and current Microsofties react to the latest layoffs

mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My current company recently had a huge round of layoffs. When I asked what leadership planned to do about the hit to morale, we were told we need to ask ourselves whether we really want to be here. I just tendered my two weeks’ notice.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I swear, such stories seem as if all these bosses really expected to become some sort of Soviet directors. There’s no way they can expect this shit to work in a market economy.

    Maybe they really believe into that “replace everyone with AI” thing.

    Then we’ll see evolution at work.

    I don’t know why I feel that urge to compare what happens with western societies today to USSR. Probably has similarities with the moment when Soviet space dream found its’ model’s ceiling of capability.

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe they really believe into that “replace everyone with AI” thing.

      A lot of ultra-wealthy people are incredible stupid, so, yes, this is likely.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If there’s anything I’ve learned in my life, it’s that I’m stupider than most. Maybe wiser at the same time, because being so stupid you evolve some wisdom or perish. Maybe.

        (Except I’m not sure it’s wisdom that I’ve learned the girls I was too shy to talk to 5 years ago and last week live in the same building, same entrance, and yet I don’t know how to talk to them, and I feel as if that day 5 years ago was closer to my infancy than today to my death. Autistic things are sometimes truly depressing.)

        People of this kind I’ve heard of seem very energetic. They may not always do the smartest thing, but they do it all the way in. Maybe that’s what’s wise.

        Though then why be a corporate executive. Doesn’t seem anything desirable.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How will you address the hit to morale?

    “By making it worse!”

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