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Re: Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Employees

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Employees
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:45:53 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ Chirag Shukla ] on Saturday 01 July 2006 14:07 \__

> 
> wei hung lo wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> > Microsoft Lays Off 214 in U.S. Sales
>> >
>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>> > | In 2004, Microsoft laid off 76 people in the Xbox unit. In 2003, the
>> > | company cut more than 150 Microsoft Consulting Services employees from
>> > | the payroll.
>> > |
>> > | [...]
>> > |
>> > | Posters on the Mini-Microsoft site had their own theories.
>> > |
>> > | "RIFs in this company do not and will not happen company wide," said
>> > | one anonymous poster on Mini-Microsoft. "They will happen on a group
>> > | by group basis. For those of you in underperforming groups that are
>> > | incapable of shipping a decent product, be worried. For those of you
>> > | in bloated groups that actually ship, you're probably safe. For those
>> > | of you in lean, mean groups that ship products regularly and
>> > | frequently, I would love to work for Google too :-)."
>> > `----
>>
>>
>> Msft have over 61000 full time employees. They lay off 214. That only
>> 0.3%.
>>
>> Why you be such a FUDing troll all the time?


East sh*t and die, Gary (flatfish in another disguise).


> Yup, you're right. Too bad there's not enough education to teach people
> about it.

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