| ClassicGamingWizzz said: They are firing 10k while spending 70 billion to acquiree the IPs and a company that have like 9500 employers. Want to see next interviews phill and nadella give, lets hope the people interviewing them have the cojones to ask hard questions and not doing what they keep doing that is allow them to lie and give BS responses. Also just read what fired devs are saying about the management of those studios, if they can barely run what they have imagine how it will be when they have ANOTHER publisher. No regulation org in their right minds shiuld allow microsoft to aquire more publishers and big companies. |
True they are laying off 10K but they are also giving them above severance pay, 6 months paid medical, continued stock awards. Contrast that to Elon Musk and twitter, and its a world of difference how you handle laying off people. The thing is the money is already spent on ABK/Blizz either MS win and pay out 70K or they lose and have to pay out 2 billion. Either way that deal has to go to its conclusion.
As to what people who are lay off feel about anything, well let just say they probably not in the most upbeat mindset. Also if you think about it, that fact that they are cleaning house within 343 points more to MS realizing that there needs to be a change within that Dev studio and for all we know, the ones let go were determined not to be holding their own. You never really know and I know I have been on the end of lay offs multiple times so I know how it feels. Sometimes you are actually happy. You get a great severance package like I did from one company and was hired within the same month to another with a nice fat increase to my bank account.
At the end of the day, the whole industry is getting hit with layoffs because they hired to many people. For tech people and developers there are a lot of jobs out there, for other employees I am not sure since I am not in that space.
Last but not least, one studio problems is not a case for the 22 other studios MS has. I believe you are being very unrealistic on that point.
