{"id":333,"date":"2009-01-23T08:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T15:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=333"},"modified":"2009-01-23T08:58:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T15:58:51","slug":"microsoft-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/01\/23\/microsoft-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5000, but only 1400 announced now &#8230; meaning everybody gets to twist in fear over the next 18 months.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/minimsft.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/microsoft-layoff-2009-day-2.html\">As MiniMSFT says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Personally, I feel like we&#8217;ve taken the Sword of Damocles and rammed it through a bunch of pink slips and now we intend to dangle that above the head of Microsoft for the next year and a half. All the way through the end of FY10, folks. &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Cut once, cut deep.<\/span>&#8221; Or, you know, don&#8217;t. If you have insight to this counter-intuitive plan, please share.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minimsft.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/microsoft-layoff-2009-now-what.html\">The earlier thread on Mini<\/a> is also good reading.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpro.co.uk\/news\/245881\/google-defies-gloom-with-strong-results.html\">Google defied expectations<\/a> with strong results &#8212; as did Apple and IBM.<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n<p>PS: There&#8217;s a Facebook group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=57816478948\">Help Microsoft Friends Find a Job<\/a> (and no doubt others).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5000, but only 1400 announced now &#8230; meaning everybody gets to twist in fear over the next 18 months.\u00c2\u00a0 As MiniMSFT says: Personally, I feel like we&#8217;ve taken the Sword of Damocles and rammed it through a bunch of pink slips and now we intend to dangle that above the head of Microsoft for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}