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meowface
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Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs
Sugarcoating mass layoffs with "evolve", "culture", "synthesized", "strategic direction"...
bshimmin
on July 17, 2014
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And no fewer than three "synergies" in there. Impressive.
Tloewald
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"Synergy" is code for we have multiple people/teams doing identical things.
72deluxe
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"I’ll share further specifics on where we are focusing our innovation investments"
Innovation investments? That's a new one! Made me laugh, but not for the right reason!
Anderkent
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Or alternatively explaining the reasoning behind the layoffs. But nah, let's assume they lay off just because they want to.
watwut
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Surely they have business reasons behind layoffs. But nah, they are not written in that mail and blabling used in that mail is horrible.
duiker101
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I understand now, thanks.
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