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Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings

We’re entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture," Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella’s email. “Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating.”

Hood’s email, notably, didn’t mention Microsoft’s recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella’s email last week attempted to explain this “seeming incongruence” as the “enigma of success.” Some employees weren’t satisfied with the explanation.

These people get paid so much for spouting utter bullshit to each other every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Burn the business colleges to the ground

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GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“The enigma of success” whoever came up with that line has truly mastered the art of auto-fellatio.

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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Agreed. What even the fuck is that string of complete nonsense? These C-suite dipshits say it so much, someone is eating it up.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The “someone” is the investors, or generally speaking, the market.
  
  Major CEOs can’t say they’re taking a financial hit, for whatever reason. This is why I like working for small companies, and most Americans work for small businesses.
  
  Last company: CEO announced to the board that he intended to lose money in order to build staff and products. Yes, he even included tech debt. The board applauded him.
  
  Meh, we fucked around and still made a profit, so he gave the board the same report the following year, same results. We fucked around a made a profit. Again.
  
  tl;dr: Don’t mistake all CEOs for the bullshit you hear from Nadella and Musk and the like. Remember; You only hear crazy talk reported, because it’s crazy talk.
  
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  - onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Kinda like HMOs. You only hear about the bad ones because people in good ones don’t bitch about them at every opportunity.
    
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  - floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I would say Nadella is the biggest bullshitter of them all. I don’t think I’ve heard him speak a single non-bullshit sentence.
    
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  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Worked for a company like that, but not everyone was happy. Investors were brought in and place went to shit. Sucks, but I got out just as it started getting worse.
    
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- interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They’re trying to tell their “stakeholders”, employees, customer, shareholders, what to believe, what to think that’s the bullshit dazzle spell to preserve your suspension of disbelief just a little longer.
  
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  - lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s the thing though. If I as an employee heard the CEO spout this crap, I would laugh at them. It’s ridiculous. Use real sentences with real meanings.
    
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    interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s why they’re at the podium and expect peer pressure to keep everyone quiet until they can retreat back into their lair
    
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TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

customer expectations are continuously accelerating

Just make a functional OS that doesn’t get in user’s ways. Those are the expectations.

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- realitista@lemmus.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Microsoft doesn’t expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.
  
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systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They know every single word is hollow. Eat it and rejoice peasant. Are you not filled?

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Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wounder how this person defines quality in their mind?

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