Microsoft Announces Major Downsizing - 60,000 Affected

[mythbuster]

They will announce the cuts by country because Microsoft UK and Microsoft India are different entities

Indians collect the crumbs of the cake that fall off the table , it's easier and cheaper to get rid of them.

 

[nahtanbob]

I have been unemployed for 18+ months and mostly because I refuse to ever go back to in-office work. Money is not bad because I made good money and am frugal. Plus wife earns.
I can't imagine the indignity of hauling my stuff out of an office after getting fired.

I have been fired couple of times. both times rebounded with bigger pay packages

In USA, it is at will employment. it depends on why they are firing you. you can get used to it. the first time was a shock. 10% across the board cut.

The second time, the VP was kind enough to help me pick up my stuff and walk me out. he said he was sorry to do this. It was budget issues at the company. he wasn't lying. he left 3 months later. company had to fire most of the workers. In fact, he become a good friend of mine.

the key is to manage personal finances and your career

 

[nahtanbob]

Indians collect the crumbs of the cake that fall off the table , it's easier and cheaper to get rid of them.

Indians in India are a lot cheaper than American employees. Companies are in business of making money

India is making $300 billion off the technology sector. It is the main reason they have not gone to the IMF since 1990.

 

[Yasser76]

They will announce the cuts by country because Microsoft UK and Microsoft India are different entities

In my experiance big cuts are announced globally all at the same time. With large corps anyway. Stuff like time zones, local law etc are taken care of. Only thing that will be different is severence packages and process, as then companies have to abid by local law.

In the case of my old company they got rid of US staff straight away with 3 months. Paris office was made redundent but a year later everyone there was on full pay and not working. Insane

 

[nahtanbob]

In my experiance big cuts are announced globally all at the same time. With large corps anyway. Stuff like time zones, local law etc are taken care of. Only thing that will be different is severence packages and process, as then companies have to abid by local law.

In the case of my old company they got rid of US staff straight away with 3 months. Paris office was made redundent but a year later everyone there was on full pay and not working. Insane

US has at will employment. French are French

 

[Hakwa Nadro]

We had a senior manager let go with shocker last yr, he came in for a regular day, held his meetings with finance in the morning as usual and then afternoon bam!
All of a sudden we got some mailer-daemon emails about his email inbox, thats how we found. But heard they made it good pkg for him to coast him over to his retirement.

These days its by email and its ruthless. They don't waste time as they usually have a long list to do the layoffs, not 1 or 2. All of a sudden emaill, phone everything is locked out.

Bro the way you describe it is as though the system is automated, maybe employing AI to do this dirty job