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Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How would one working at said company who wants to work NOT get laid off? Is it simply luck, or does one need to manually suck every dick that exists in the company to remain an employee? Like, what's the point of ever doing a competent job if they plan to cut you anyways?
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
vga@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
How would one working at said company who wants to work NOT get laid off?
To get a sense of proportions…
www.macrotrends.net/stocks/…/number-of-employees
So they’ve added 100 000 people in about 10 years and are now laying of 9000.
Probably by a combination of 1) not being incredibly incompetent / toxic and 2) not being unlucky enough to be one of the very very few that are doing something management thinks is not needed.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Large companies like Microsoft tend to have very high competition. The trade off is that if you can do well the pay is going to be very well.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No, no.
The vast, vast majority of MSFT ‘employees’ are contractors, V dashes, A dashes, etc, who functionally keep working different MSFT contracts over and over again, but get paid far less than actual salaried, proper employees with stock options.
MSFT will string along these contractors along with what you are saying ‘do well and we’ll hire you and pay the big bucks’, and in reality this basically never happens.
This institutional, pathological reliance on contractors over traditional employees is a huge reason why MSFT’s work culture is so toxic, why MSFT’s management is so incompetent, and why their products seems more and more like a bunch layers of inefficient and buggy spaghetti code worked on by hundreds of random people with no core design principles.
Because they are.