ChorizoPicozo
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Microsoft execs partied with Sting in Davos hours before announcing layoffs
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AmuroChan
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100%. You and I both can see who these people really are. It's just sad that a big part of the population do not and actually think of them as some sort of heroes trying to save the world.
Hero of Spielberg
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This is the gaming section? I thought it was the MS raped my pet cat board.
phaedrus
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NecrosaroIII
Ask me about my terrible takes on Star Trek characters
My company let go of about 10% of our staff in early December. They then cancelled all holiday parties and events because they said it wouldn't be appropriate.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Disgusting and tone deaf.
The execs could have minimized this frivolous spending and taken a small pay cut and keep many of those employees at the company.
The execs could have minimized this frivolous spending and taken a small pay cut and keep many of those employees at the company.
yurinka
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Maybe because this company is a console maker, an important publisher and is in the process of buying the largest 3rd party publisher in the world. And well, because these layoffs affected their gamedev studios.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
It's absolutely insane. There is a huge dearth of talent in this industry. I cant believe MS would let go of game developers of all people.
Tams
Member
The monetary argument doesn't wash. The whole party and trip would pay for those 10,000 employees for, what, half a day?
Morally and image wise it isn't good. But practically it doesn't mean jack shit.
I get why, as when it comes to these sums of money it's mindbogglingly for many people. And most people never get into positions where they have to even see such amounts of money (on paper of course). But if you've seen payrolls and expenditures of even quite small companies... woooo boi... it's big.
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PropellerEar
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With this post you climbed back to being SlimySnake from being demoted to SlimyWorm.
geary
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Thats like the meme…”I’m sorry….anyway here’s…”. This is so oportunistic.
MacReady13
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Fucking spot on my friend.
bentanchorbolt
Banned
Heh. Wouldn’t that be something.
Bo_Hazem
Banned
Imagine you've been laid off, that's great news for you! They want the best for their interest, and it happens to benefit those people. It's a win-win situation.
Orta
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chromhound
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They paid him in Xbox gift card so he can get gamepass ultimate
El Pistolero
Banned
This place should strive to be a spot where opinions of all sorts get discussed, and not turn into an anti-era forum, where the consensus is the exact opposite of whatever dominant narrative is shared over there, simply out of principle!
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Considering Sony paid $1.2 billion just to retain Bungie's talent. One studio's dev talent was worth more than a billion for a 20x smaller company that is Sony.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Yeah, how dare they offer them a job opportunity and try to take them in when they were fired.
Sonik
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Bo_Hazem
Banned
We can't tell, really. They might be good in the good hands. You think Naughty Dog would be great under MS?
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GymWolf
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Azurro
Banned
Have you seen what Naughty Dog has turned into? They'll fit right in.
Bragr
Banned
And the rich working class is starting to sound dumber and dumber and wants more and more.
I hope they speed up the process of getting chips installed in our brains so we can control and remove the worst among us. Start with the poor people.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
The game studio with the most awards, most GOTYs, and some of the biggest commercial success? I hope so.
Azurro
Banned
More like a studio filled with a bunch of blue haired weirdos and I'm sure a few senior devs somehow keeping the ship running.
Cyberpunkd
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You sip on the expensive wine and chat how more you can cut to artificially inflate metrics and stock price so you can cash more.
Less employees = revenue per employee goes up = ‘we are more profitable on a per employee basis’
Lunarorbit
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Fuck. We're in the inception?
Ownage
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On Wednesday morning Microsoft announced it was laying off 10,000 employees, about 5 percent of its total headcount, in response to lowered revenue and a “re-aligned core structure.” Hours earlier, dozens of Microsoft executives attended an exclusive, company-funded Sting concert outside of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The combination of the two events is a shockingly tone-deaf look for the world’s largest software maker.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news of the Tuesday night concert, which was reportedly an “intimate” gathering of 50 or so people. Gordon “Sting” Matthew Thomas Summer is one of the most recognizable rock musicians in the world, whose private appearances generally cost around $500,000 according to AAE Music. It’s not known if Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who personally signed the blog post announcing the mass layoff, attended the concert, though he was present in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.
Nadella did not announce any cutbacks for executive pay or bonuses.
Microsoft execs partied with Sting in Davos hours before announcing layoffs
Microsoft paid for a private Sting concert in Switzerland the day before announcing it will cut 10,000 jobs.www.pcworld.com
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Hair color of developers are more important than the games they produce? Games that even Xbox regards "sets a new bar" and what "we should hope to be able to achieve going into a new generation of consoles."
What did I miss?
Tams
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Torrent of Pork
Banned
People have no capability to understand what money is after a certain point. It's like when people bitch about Walmart's CEO salary. Ok, chain the man to his desk, cattle-prod him into doing the job for free, and distribute his salary evenly to all of Walmart's employees. You now make $20 more per year.
Thirty7ven
Banned
These suits are acting like modern day nobles, out there splashing the money on parties while telling the poor to eat cake on their way out of a job.
MarkMe2525
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We both know why this is here.
Bill's got them moves like Jager.leaked footage
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