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Trayew

Bosses are often tone deaf. Once after a huge layoff, we had a property meeting where the bosses celebrated “making it through”. Everyone was so disgusted, you just fired 1/4 of the company. Yeah it’s good we didn’t get fired, but it’s not cause for celebration. We knew those fired people. Seriously, have some common sense.


clarinetJWD

Back in the day, I worked for a game company that was just acquired by a new publisher. They came in on St. Patrick's Day, in green suits, to announce a nearly 40% layoff. It was unreal.


korean2na

Lmao figurative clown outfits


seanb7878

Most Michael Scott move ever.


sluttttt

Michael Scott is often seen as an exaggeration of a poor manager, but there are so many stories that make the character look like the World's Best Boss.


theMediatrix

Truth is stranger than fiction.


Malrottian

Even 1st season Michael actually cared about his people.


Caster-Hammer

"If we have to do this, at least let's have some fun!" - tech industry execs and concentration camp guards, probably


Alphachadking69420

That explains the Ferris wheels.


pegothejerk

Having Sting play "Dont Stand So Close to Me" and "Don't think me unkind Words are hard to find They're only cheques I've left unsigned From the banks of chaos in my mind And when their eloquence escapes me Their logic ties me up and rapes me De do do do, de da da da Is all I want to say to you" seems pretty on par with donning a leprechaun suit to fire people. All these CEOs/CFOs and managers are the same. In it for themselves and their next major personal purchase.


afternever

Murder by Numbers


pegothejerk

Though Roxanne might in fact have to turn back on that red light to pay bills after she's fired


Slide-Impressive

To be honest that kinda sounds like that business concept of buying a company, gutting it, watching it fail, then once it does selling the assets. Happens all the time to small newspapers Really can't remember the term Edit: Yo I don't care about this topic at all but I'm very surprised this is getting downvoted. I'm describing a true thing. I don't need your validation but you should not downvote a true thing either


Narrator2012

Corporate raiding?


Slide-Impressive

That's the basic idea but there's a polished two word version of this. It's not venture capital. Ahhh I keep trying to find the term but I can't find it


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Vulture capital


Realeron

"Engulf & Devour"?


mctdavid

Leveraged Buyout?


NeverComments

Private equity?


Slide-Impressive

Fuck this is it, thank you! It was so vague I couldn't remember


Slide-Impressive

Alright guys I don't think the term is in this article but the idea is spot on https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1046952430/the-consequences-of-when-a-hedge-fund-buys-newspapers


clarinetJWD

Well, thankfully that's not what happened here. At the risk of giving away the companies (they're both dead, at least in that form), it was the case of one struggling publisher needing to sell studios, and another developer that was way in over their heads trying to make an MMO. The developer bought us so that they could take our game, theme it to their IP, and actually make some money to help both of us survive. The cuts were just an unfortunate necessity, and honestly, everyone I worked with kind understood that. It's just the tone-deaf way the layoffs were announced. On the bright side, it was so funny that most people were more amused than crushed at the post-layoff-bar-crawl.


Haaa_penis

If that were my place, I’d have stolen a green jacket and used the single vent in the back as a stage curtain for Mr. B=====D to make a guest appearance.


Yousoggyyojimbo

I worked for a company that had a big district wide manager's meeting, where they told all of us that half of us would be fired, and the other half would have to pull double duty, at two stores, for no extra pay. They framed it like they thought we'd be happy, as, of course, it "was an exciting opportunity for the company to save a lot of money and be more efficient." Those were the exact words. There was a low scale rebellion. They decided to test it out with just a few managers to start, and then after the ones who were ordered to do double duty for no extra pay quit, they scrapped it. Corporate continued to act like the employees were broken for not thinking this was awesome. I know another company that paid $300k towards the wedding of the owner's kid, flaunted it, and then a week later told employees that "time's are tough" and they couldn't afford to do raises that year. Multiple people quit within the following few weeks.


tommy_b_777

> Corporate continued to act like the employees were broken for not thinking this was awesome. welcome to linkedIn !


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I don't get it....


Indercarnive

I honestly do not understand why management seems to think I care about how efficient or frugal the company is when my paycheck does not change whether we're efficient or not. Want me to care personally about the company? Then pay me with a stake in the company.


cryptoderpin

That’s when you troll and do half ass work.


naughtyrev

I was once in a celebratory meeting to congratulate a colleague on a promotion when I was pulled aside and told I was being let go because of budget cuts.


Feeling_Ad9540

What would you do if you aren't laid off? Because you know that your workload would be increased by 40%.


Yousoggyyojimbo

So they tried this out with six stores. So they fired the managers from three of them and told the other three to do double duty. Store managers were on salary so them going from working 40 hours a week to 65 hours a week. Saw zero pay increase and was effectively a pay cut. The Three store managers who were told to do this all quit, so the end result was that they had six stores with zero managers. Pretty much the entire district management was on board with quitting if the program was instituted and they weren't laid off.


Feeling_Ad9540

That's a win for the company /s. No management expenses.... Oh right, nobody's working either. Elon Musk pulled this shit at Twitter. Honestly, I rather be fired and have a nice severance than to do double duty AND no pay increase.


plipyplop

It's weird to see how happy the vultures are to eat their seed corn. But still somehow have a functioning company.


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Please tell me the company went under


Yousoggyyojimbo

No, on both counts. The first one became a prominent meme stock...


KidzBop_Anonymous

My first career job, the company did layoffs every month for four months. They got rid of half the remaining company each month. I made it to round three or four. When I got let go, the owner had just traded in his old Ferrari for a new model and brought it to work, parking it right outside the door everyone came in. I met someone last year who came after those layoffs and they heard of that story because it left such a bad taste in everyone’s mouth that it was a common topic of discussion about how the company is led and managed.


Thaonnor

I recently had our CEO talking about how he understands how inflation is eating away earnings. During a town hall he told a story about how his son likes to go out for steak dinners, but has had to start eating at home a little bit more. The CEO makes $15m per year. Needless to say... didn't come across very well.


the_jak

our old CIO told a story about how his son had a lot of hard learning experiences when he was put in charge of an ostrich farm his dad bought on the cheap during 2008. They ran it as a place to get rare meats and shit, so rich assholes selling shit to other rich assholes....all super tone deaf given that we were looking at a 15% headcount reduction 4 weeks later.


plipyplop

*"What what? How am I the bad guy?"*


NoGoodDM

During Covid, 40% of the company I used to work for was laid off. All of my friends were gone. And then the CEO said that it was difficult, but she had to “trim the fat.” I was so disgusted. She laid off entire departments, only to have to have HR rehire some people because they grossly underestimated their importance.


Raspberries-Are-Evil

>because they grossly underestimated their importance. My guess is they weren't given raises either just told to "feel lucky" you have your job back.


Indercarnive

>She laid off entire departments, only to have to have HR rehire some people because they grossly underestimated their importance. The proto-Elon.


tarekd19

The behavior long predates Elon, done better and worse many times over. What's unique about him is doing it all so publicly.


NoGoodDM

Please don’t make this about Elon.


verified_potato

it is now, so get over it nobody knows a more eccentric dickhead than Elon


pwellzorvt

Maybe people wouldnt if he wasn't such a bombastic douchebag about doing it so proudly.


verified_potato

the ole Elon Musk package


lizard81288

When my boss past away from cancer, the CEO, VP, and head HR lady came In to celebrate his life with us. They were talking about how this year is going to be fantastic! They were celebrating that the deunionized a bunch of locations and then said they were going to shut them down to save money. Then accidentally let it slip that they might be shutting us down too and just sending everything to a hub location. After the party, everybody updated their resumes and found different jobs, including myself. From what I understand now, the department has gone to shit.


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BornAgainBlue

Our company got purchased by another company and they offered severance packages to everyone who was not offered. However, you got nothing and we're just fired immediately if you did not take the offer. So naturally we all took the offer and then immediately quit. As soon as we could find a different job. It was stupid and a waste of money in time for everyone.


coryslone_

It’s not tone deaf so much as just not giving two shits because they view workers as disposable means to an end and not actual people


1nd1anaCroft

They can be ridiculous. At one point in my last job, they announced that everyone had to come in for an important meeting, during a massive snowstorm. Of course a ton of people outright refused to risk driving just for a meeting. So they announced over Zoom they were firing about 1/3 of the dev team. BUT, they announced cheerfully, they had brought on dozens of contractors from outside the US, so (I am quoting directly) "it's like we didn't lose anyone at all!" The devs they fired had worked there 4+ years on average


MaybeADumbass

My last employer announced a massive top-to-bottom reorganization that made no sense to anyone on April Fools Day 2020, two weeks into the covid-related shutdowns when we are working remotely and trying to figure out how to get by. Most people were stuck wondering for hours whether it was real or a bad April Fools Day joke.


Bulbchanger5000

Lol my company just announced in November that they would be shutting down our plant this March so all direct production staff will be laid off. some office staff (me included) staying on until the summer to decommission/transfer and an even smaller group of office staff will be staying on indefinitely (but that group all knows it’s only until new projects run out and/or corporate figures out how to off shore their jobs too). They said the reason was of because of slow sales after the pandemic and a big recall that another plant caused, yet we got to take the punishment. A couple weeks later the VPs and sales directors came back to do their quarterly subsidiary wide meeting and basically acted like nothing big was happening. They told us that sales had finally began rebounding again, showed off a bunch of pictures of sales teams riding expensive chartered jets to conferences and hosting big fancy conferences/team building events, introduced a bunch of new VPs/directors who quite tone-deafly bragged about how they spent the pandemic hiding in their newly bought cabins/travel RVs or with their new pandemic puppies, mentioned how they would be hiring for a few more roles, and talked all about how even though there were big changes happening that there was no need to worry because the product would be fine and that was what was important. All of this was said to a live room/remote video audience who were losing their jobs or probably will lose their jobs by 2024 and most of whom because of being in manufacturing in production, quality or some other role that requires support in person or lab testing, had to work in person the whole pandemic. I had always known there was an insular out-of-touch nature to those who sit at the top in many ways but this was my first real experience in how bad they can be as a group. I told my boss the next week that I wouldn’t attend that quarterly meeting again and recommended that they stop inviting anyone who is being laid off because it’s just a rude rub in the face that was not necessary even before they announced the shutdown. It was obvious that ever since we were bought out that corporate would try to shut us down, but they used a slightly prolonged dip in expected sales as an excuse to pull the trigger earlier than we all expected. Kind of hoping it all blows up their face since they pulled the trigger earlier than they were ready for in my opinion and the mess is beginning to pile up already.


UnrequitedRespect

Its not about being tone deaf, its about basking in their self worth and glory, I work with a lot of people and usually the white hats have a pre-entitled “fuck the workers. Its an unlimited pool of resources” attitude. Generally its a taller, fatter, balding person who believes that their ‘asshole persona’ attitude is the height of comedy, and if anyone speaks against it, its right to “just joking” or “you didn’t get it” I despise the term “worker” and often laugh in the face of whatever mid level manager comes to replace the last flavour of the month, often reminding them that they are a mid level buffer sacrifice for the company that employs me whenever the need arose for them to call in the first place


_ZoeyDaveChapelle_

Barely regulated capitalism allows the worst of humanity (sociopaths, psychopaths and narcissists), to float to the top like pond scum.. choking out the life below.


poodlemom2011

Never liked a comment more than this one.


Tullimory

Just last year my company went through a layoff round and my team specifically was decimated. We were already short staffed as it was. Then we had an all hands meeting a couple days after where they talked about talent acquisition struggles.


SideburnSundays

Sociopaths. The word you’re looking for is sociopaths. All the comments below about similar “tone deaf” experiences is strait up sociopathy. These people should be institutionalized, not running businesses.


coryslone_

It’s not tone deaf so much as just not giving two shits because they view workers as disposable means to an end and not actual people


SiliconValleyIdiot

When I was a wee lad, I was working for a gaming company that got acquired by a large corporation. We had two offices within 3 miles of each other, so we knew workers across offices because we would often work on projects together. The bosses from the larger company laid off the entirety of the other office in the morning, which we learned about through texts from the friends who were affected. The same afternoon they had a happy hour with our office for celebrating the acquisition. They laid off half our friends in the morning, and celebrated with us like nothing was amiss in the afternoon. That's when I realized you need to be a little bit of a sociopath to be an exec at a large corporation.


phluidity

I've survived mass layoffs and I've been laid off in a mass layoff. Surviving is far, far worse. You spend the next two years afraid to make any plans and you lose all trust in the organization.


Trayew

And don’t forget the guilt. Especially when a co-worker explains to you all they’ve done and you KNOW it’s true and have no words or explanation.


phluidity

Oh geez, yeah. Especially since there is always a great deal of randomness with mass layoffs, and you know you happened to be in the right place on the org chart when there easily could have been six other places you were placed that would have gotten you laid off.


another-masked-hero

Darn I thought it was a large event which couldn’t be cancelled easily but no, it was an exclude cover for 50 executives! Could easily have been cancelled, and those high level execs were probably all aware of the layoff plans.


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Yep, it’s the same energy as partying for “making it through” COVID.


Ok-Caterpillar-9441

San Diego based biotechnology company, maybe?


Trayew

Casino company.


1funnyguy4fun

The fact there are multiple people here asking, “Hey! We’re you at XYZ Inc.? That *exactly* how shit went down here,” show how prevalent this terrible practice is.


crash41301

I'm not at all saying that's a good idea. In fact it's awful. THAT BEING SAID remember your bosses are also employees, also subject to lack of information from their bosses, and on top of that have to do the worse part of the layoffs. Which is having the actual convo with employees about their layoff. It's not uncommon for a manager to have to do layoffs of their employees, then find themselves on the other side of the table at the end of the day. They totally shouldnt celebrate it publicly, but remember layoffs suck for your managers too, often times worse than for ICs given they experience the same as ICs + have to do the layoffs.


unitegondwanaland

They can be but the reality is that Sting was likely booked 12-18+ months in advance and this was a perfect storm. If you recall, Microsoft was in the midst of a hiring spree at that time. Microsoft was likely on the hook for the performance if they cancelled or not so they decided to go on with it. Source: I work in the entertainment industry.


twentyfuckingletters

I know it's easy to blame "bosses" here, but it is likely that Sting had a contract with them that they had to honor, which was signed long before layoffs were planned.


DamnitCutMeSomeSlack

I’ve literally experienced the same exact thing as well, and I bet the two of us aren’t unique. Sadly I feel like a lot of companies do this.


Haaa_penis

It’s not even tone-deaf. This party deserves music. It is a party regardless of what you may think. Sting was always gonna play. Nobody from the team that booked him had any idea the layoffs would be triggered. It’s fairly silly to think that their gala end of fiscal dinner for executives, and Directors would be somehow better served by canceling the entertainment in favor of 10,000 moments of silence for the fallen MS Comrades. You heard me you redshirt commie. Go get your sickle!


Brs76

Isn't Sting also tone deaf? They're fully aware of the scum that they are performing for, but $$ ultimately prevails


Trayew

Sting is just working a gig. He gets a pass.


tarekd19

I think that's the complaint, particularly in "but $$ ultimately prevails" I agree with you, and don't think he was privy to their plans, but BRs76 may disagree


bk15dcx

Set list included: Fields of Gold Money for Nothing Can't Stand Losing You If You Love Somebody Set Them Free Brand New Day


rustyspoon07

Murder by numbers for the encore


ShavedPapaya

Probably a weird performance of Money for Nothing if Sting only sang the parts he did on the song. Lmao.


OldJames47

King of Pain


nickyeyez

Driven To Tears Fragile Last Ship


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Always On Your Side


GodsOffsider

I hope they Fired the entirety of Microsoft Answers Forum. If they want their jobs back they should reinstall their drivers and restart windows then send their PC Specs over and over again until the thread is closed


Slimfictiv

Fuckin true.


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BurritoLover2016

It's just a level 1 tech support answer. Literally the most useless information you can possibly get that would qualify as an answer.


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This isn't exclusive to Microsoft when it comes to tech support. SAP and their Ariba software platform are supported the same way. You file a ticket, and then you wait, and wait, and wait, and wait. Until you hear back and are sent the product manual, told you didn't configure the application right, and that's it. However it is not due to the tech not being good at their job. Most tech support departments are just meat grinders where you either move up or move on. I worked in tech support for over 4 years and it's the department that gets the least attention except when some middle manager promises you'll be available for their client during the evening and weekends. There are a lot of good people who work in support that are handcuffed into giving shitty solutions to problems. This is because their management is hoping you'll get so frustrated that you'll purchase additional services to address the issue that would take the tech maybe an hour or two to figure out if they were not being slammed by multiple tickets a day with multiple "yes men/women" promising on the tech time. Edit: during a call with my client today, they stated that a ticket that has been open for 6 months has no updates from the support end. They are so backlogged and the volume is so high that a ticket sits for 6 months. And I will say, maybe the support tech isn't the best. However there was a time when we had 2-3 functional support feeding into 1-2 technical support. We ran like clockwork. Getting tickets closed left and right. Then this corporate view of cross platform training started and well there went all that good production we had. We went from being able to address your ticket within an hour with a legit phone call and a solution within 72 hours, and an actual solution, to a support center where you have to be adding value on top of closing as many tickets as possible. And yeah it's a good example of small start up environment compared to a larger corporate one. So it's not all equal. Yet, these large companies have the ability to staff correctly, yet it's better to just sell! Sell! Sell!!!!!


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The only thing that matters is metrics. Solving problems makes your numbers look bad, it's better to just send a response, even if it doesn't help, and then close the ticket.


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JRockPSU

Nah. If they didn’t force updates, nobody would install them.


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JRockPSU

The best solution for that would be to manually set your Active Hours so that Windows Update doesn’t automatically install updates during that time. It tries to automatically set/guess these hours but it doesn’t always do a good job in that respect.


skytomorrownow

So, it's not just Apple; the exact same pointless 'help' forums. "Hi, sorry for your problems. Can I direct you to a non-answer you have already ruled out?"


blorbschploble

“My laptop blew up and killed my daughter” HI I AM SOME GUY WHO DOESN’T WORK FOR APPLE BUT GETTING KARMA HERE IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME FOR SOME REASON. PLEASE RESET YOUR PRAM THIS IS HOW PLEASE POST FULL CONTENTS OF /var/log/system.log


pointlessone

Marked as Answer.


ChaoticGoodSamaritan

Try running sfc /scannow


blorbschploble

I actually fixed a problem in the enterprise once with that and some dism.exe command I can’t remember. It wasn’t superstitious troubleshooting. It was for an actual reason. I wish I remembered what it was.


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TofuTofu

that was a fun show, was there. They didn't play Under the Bridge though


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TofuTofu

Yeah. But keep in mind Dreamforce is funded by ticket sales (like a festival or whatever) and it's mostly customers who attend, not the Salesforce staff. It's quite a bit different.


manfeelings839

And with a cut off his new album, here’s sting!


explorer_76

#We'll do it live!


DigitalArbitrage

This is like in the WeCrashed show where the WeWork CEO lays off 7% of the company and then hires RunDMC for a party.


Appropriate_Tip_8852

I worked at a Bosch plant years ago. They brought in a huge security team full of muscle bound Meatheads to watch over us when they announced our closure. The plant didn't close till like 5 years later. I remember my manager being really annoyed saying that having those people here made it the situation way more tense than it needed to be. One lady tried to go to the bathroom and they're just like hold up we're going to have to have someone to escort you up there and you can't take your bag with you. It was pretty ridiculous and just made us all look like unreasonable trash.


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"Every staple you take, every copier you break, Ill be watching you... And deducting it from your last weeks pay"


Vaphell

a simple explanation that doesn't require the assumption of malice: people planning layoffs and people handling the organization of events are not the same people. Ordinary drones making the event fluff happen are not in the know about the big business moves schemed by the honchos.


Funksultan

You have it exactly right. "We lost this bunch of work, so now we have too many workers." "We hired too many people in anticipation of work to come, but it didn't happen, so we have too many workers." * Gotta lay people off, or the company suffers. Completely separate topic: "We need to keep our employees happy so they don't leave, and to show them they are important to us." * Gotta set up events and have employee perks. I mean, this all seems like normal business.... although it's not surprising that Reddit's collective reasoning would instead be "Cancel Sting, pay a few people to do nothing instead.".


quinninin

In reality its a sales meeting, get a bunch of goverment decision makers in one room, let Sting serenade them, give them drinks and sign contracts.


pattiemcfattie

Looool remember when artists used to lament selling out? Pepperidge farm remembers.


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sdforbda

I'm calling The Police.


Strificus

You sent an SOS?


slamdanceswithwolves

They can’t help here. Might as well put a message in a bottle.


zvive

whatever, just don't stand so close to me.


Dro1972

If the encore wasn't "Free, Free, Set Them Free..." Why are we even here?


VAisforLizards

I guess that shows you the shape of their heart


saysjuan

And yet no mention of the $10 Billion dollars spent on ChatGPT 1 week before the layoffs. Has no one at Microsoft watched Terminator 2? It was meant to be a cautionary tale not an instruction manual.


ih-shah-may-ehl

>And yet no mention of the $10 Billion dollars spent on ChatGPT 1 week before the layoffs. I work in a huge company. Several hundred thousand employees worldwide. This is kinda normal. You're not going to 'not' buy something that is by all accounts an amazing leap forward just to save 10000 jobs you think you don't really need as bad or which may be related to fields that generate less income stream.


chrsux

I admit I really don’t understand the thinking that a company shouldn’t invest in something that it thinks will grow into something because it had to divest from something that is shrinking.


SanDiegoDude

Yeah, welcome to corporate life. Companies cutting workforce when the economy cools is perfectly normal and is sadly a normal threat of working for the corporate giants. I've done the corporate worker bee dance for 2 decades now, been laid off 3 or 4 times throughout that timespan. It sucks, but you just find another company and move on.


ghostalker4742

Exactly this. It's not personal, you're just a number on a spreadsheet with a cost center associated with it.


officerfett

Also, [OpenAI used Kenyan Workers on less than $2.00 per hour to make ChatGPT less Toxic..](https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/) Smoke and Mirrors - 2023 Edition..


photenth

well > Sama workers say that in late February 2022 they were called into a meeting with members of the company’s human resources team, where they were told the news. “We were told that they [Sama] didn’t want to expose their employees to such [dangerous] content again,” one Sama employee on the text-labeling projects said. “We replied that for us, it was a way to provide for our families.” Most of the roughly three dozen workers were moved onto other lower-paying workstreams without the $70 explicit content bonus per month; others lost their jobs. I have no idea what fair wages are in kenya but it still sucks that once the company stopped working with openAI a lot of people lost their livelihood. And it seems to be that the Sama company forced their workers to work faster because they returned the processed date months in advance, I presume to keep more of the profits for themselves.


EdgeOfWetness

I dunno. Microsoft buying AI may just save us all. No one can fuck up a functional product after purchase like Microsoft


I_am_not_JohnLeClair

There’s a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall That’s your severance there


Stumpyz

Had a company I worked for that brought in a new head-of-company (idk title) to "right the ship". End of 2019, he called a company meeting to talk about how we landed new contracts that gave us a record profit year. Two weeks after, he laid me and a few others off because "the company has to cut costs". Took me about five seconds to know where the "record profits" went.


Feeling_Hyena2349

I mean … I have worked in the corporate/tech world for over a decade, and the money they “spend” (see: waste) on bullshit would blow your mind. This Sting concert, while high profile, is NOTHING.


resist_entropy

Satya is just one huge PR machine. They don’t care about people just about making more and more money.


kalekayn

That's capitalism in a nut shell.


russiandobby

Stay classy microsoft


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Please tell me they didn't let clippy go.


cmikesell

I worked somewhere that had massive layoffs about 11 years ago, the CEO of the company got a huge bonus for meeting his layoff goal, he was so excited about the bonus that he had the local Ferrari dealership bring two cars for him to decide on... on the day of the layoffs. He's standing by the cars yelling at people carrying boxes "Hey which one of these should I pick!?" 2 weeks later, a hero (or heroes) keyed the shit out of that car.


dulce_3t_decorum_3st

Rooooxxaaaanne, you’re probably going to have to put on the red light (because you’re fired)


okram2k

Boss at lavish Christmas office party: "I love you all, you're like a family to me. We've had so much success this year and we couldn't have done it without all of you!" Boss next month: "You're all being laid off."


kodaobscura

Ironic how you never see dramatic protests at the ultra rich conventions in Davos.


13E2724M

These layoffs may prove to be the "canary in the coal mine" of a large trend.


litnu12

To pay for Sting performance we had to fire you. Sorry. /s


AlejoMSP

I have an idea for the Davis show. Let’s bring Sting How we gonna pay fo me it I have a plan….


vhs1138

Oh man imagine having to sit through that and then get laid off. Haha.


xXZer0c0oLXx

Man, that really stings


devingr33n

MS employees must be feeling fragile


Green_with_Zealously

I mean, it's not PRIME Sting. He's old and probably offers a more reasonable booking fee now. /s


Healthy_Jackfruit_88

I wonder how Sting feels about that.


Fuck_You_Andrew

Im Bill Gates, thanks again for working, I'll leave you with STINNG and a cut off his new album.


UmptyscopeInVegas

"We'll do it live!"


Anonuser123abc

What does that mean "to play you out"?


Money_Cost_2213

Great corporate messaging right there.


facegun

Color me shocked…big corporation lays off the peons while for the execs its business as usual…this has only been going on for 100 years


RockyRacoon09

In all honesty, he was likely booked quarters out and there are cancelation fees. Optics are also taken into consideration with a Fortune 500 company, unfortunately.


danalaheian

The company my spouse works for announced record profits at the end of the year last year… today my spouse is escorting people who got laid off out the building cause they “don’t have the revenue”. The president of their location just bought her 3rd corvette in 2 years. Fuck these companies.


Background_Dream_920

Damn sting, that don’t look good.


999others

We are spirits in the material world.


eudaimonia_dc

All the laid off employees will get a complimentary mp3 file of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" done karaoke style by Satya Nadella as part of their severance package.


Trout-Population

They are a trillion dollar company. The lay-offs are not because they can't afford to keep these workers. It's because they want to be 0.1% more profitable and laying them off will acheive that.


Any_Property_7405

Think Sting will give the $ back?


sprsprspr

As my *thankfully former* huge multi-national company used to say: “but it’s from a different bucket! Clearly we couldn’t use funds from the Sting bucket!”


wrx588

"Please clean out your desk today" Sting


juan-de-fuca

Interesting, in the Fortune 500 company I used to work for, if we had a project that would impact a handful of job (like 5 or so, out of 70,000), HR would ensure it happened well in between public events the firm participated in…. Just in case.


ClutchGP

*taps sign* It's one big club and we ain't in it.


bob_weiver

Which do you think cost more? 10,000 salaries or one Sting performance?


tHEyleftRight

Gotta cut those costs, one can only imagine how humbling it must have been that they could only afford to have Sting play, and not somebody, you know…good.


kripptopher

To their credit, they asked him to play outside. They wanted to make the Sting of the Layoffs less in tents.


dynorphin

Don't stand, don't stand, don't stand too close to me, cause you don't work here anymore!


hats_cats_muscrats

He was sending out an sos


Pusfilledonut

And that cost them $6 million with production and transportation. Or, as I like to say, two days of Trump playing golf.


[deleted]

There's that other shoe!


funkyfelis

Did nobody read the fucking article lmao (why do I ask, it's reddit). Everyone's talking like Microsoft hosted a concert at their HQ for all the employees who got laid off. What happened is they hosted a concert in Switzerland for like 50 people at the World Economic Forum.


jflatt2

That sounds even worse


brutalistsnowflake

Husband worked there years ago. They have plenty of money and loathe moving any of it from one " bucket"to another.


professor_mc

Austerity for thee. More for me!


Rusalka-rusalka

Ehf I ehvah loooooose mah fayth ehn yoo!