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Alby_da_Wolf on 23 December 2008
Kyros said:
As time progresses there is going to be alot more of these stories.


The weird thing is that big firms firing thousands of people is pretty much insignificant for people employment. Companies not hiring people to replace people going into pension etc. pp or small companies firing one or two contributes much much more.

As for MS firing people even if they make profit: They are a company. They have some responsibility for their workers and firing people just for fun doesn't do anything for loyality of employees. But in the end they make money. Keeping people employed even if you do not have work for them has been proven disastrous on and on again. Companies get bloated and die. And I know a few Microsoft employees the little bastards get much more money than other people (even in the same business) and they generally have an excellent academic history so you shouldn't feel too sorry for them.

Considering that MS makes tons of money and despite it they have an appalling quality control, they could put more people on quality control and debugging, instead of always releasing betas and make paying customers debug them.



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megaman79 on 23 December 2008
Bitmap Frogs said:
megaman79 said:
Rumours in the business world are worth SHIT LOADS of money though.

MS stock went up i bet bcoz of this rumour

 

Speaking of which, I gotta buy some Apple stock...

 

GUYS STEVE JOBS HAS DIED! MY COUSIN WORKS AT THE HOSPITAL AND TOLD ME!

Yea pick up some Take Two stock while your at it

 



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Alby_da_Wolf on 23 December 2008
Bitmap Frogs said:
megaman79 said:
Rumours in the business world are worth SHIT LOADS of money though.

MS stock went up i bet bcoz of this rumour

 

Speaking of which, I gotta buy some Apple stock...

 

GUYS STEVE JOBS HAS DIED! MY COUSIN WORKS AT THE HOSPITAL AND TOLD ME!

Jobs has died so long ago... They keep on cloning him, but alas they took sample cells when his genoma was already altered so clones too keep on dying.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 23 December 2008
scat398 said:
This actually isn't a rumour. My brother works at microsoft and most of the layoffs have already taken place and they do go into effect in January. The past of couple of weeks have been very hectic and stressfull with guys high up on the food chain working all nighters and expecting everyone to do the same.

Microsoft's layoffs have less to do with the economy and more with the structure of their business. Competing with google has forced microsoft to focus on areas they weren't before and move away from other areas. For all the layoffs they will be doing, they will also be hiring in several other departments.

Maybe the rumour was spread on purpose to make MS employees work like mad... I wouldn't be surprised, Ballmer can be much more bastard than this.



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Bitmap Frogs on 23 December 2008
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
megaman79 said:
Rumours in the business world are worth SHIT LOADS of money though.

MS stock went up i bet bcoz of this rumour

 

Speaking of which, I gotta buy some Apple stock...

 

GUYS STEVE JOBS HAS DIED! MY COUSIN WORKS AT THE HOSPITAL AND TOLD ME!

Jobs has died so long ago... They keep on cloning him, but alas they took sample cells when his genoma was already altered so clones too keep on dying.

 

That might explain why the ipod has become flimsier with each iteration.





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Comrade Tovya on 23 December 2008
Bitmap Frogs said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
megaman79 said:
Rumours in the business world are worth SHIT LOADS of money though.

MS stock went up i bet bcoz of this rumour

 

Speaking of which, I gotta buy some Apple stock...

 

GUYS STEVE JOBS HAS DIED! MY COUSIN WORKS AT THE HOSPITAL AND TOLD ME!

Jobs has died so long ago... They keep on cloning him, but alas they took sample cells when his genoma was already altered so clones too keep on dying.

 

That might explain why the ipod has become flimsier with each iteration.

 

I think iPods are leaps and bounds a better product than when they first came out....

I always believed that the iPod sucked until really over the last year or so.  They really have become pretty awesome now.

 



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alephnull on 23 December 2008
NJ5 said:

Did you even read the post I was replying to?

No one switched sides unless you're reading things wrong. I didn't say Microsoft would post a loss. I said they'd be negatively affected which is very different.

 

Heh, you need to switch to decaf man, I was agreeing with you. I made the switching sides comment because you are one of the few whose response hasn't been predictable.

 



Bitmap Frogs on 23 December 2008
Comrade Tovya said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
megaman79 said:
Rumours in the business world are worth SHIT LOADS of money though.

MS stock went up i bet bcoz of this rumour

 

Speaking of which, I gotta buy some Apple stock...

 

GUYS STEVE JOBS HAS DIED! MY COUSIN WORKS AT THE HOSPITAL AND TOLD ME!

Jobs has died so long ago... They keep on cloning him, but alas they took sample cells when his genoma was already altered so clones too keep on dying.

 

That might explain why the ipod has become flimsier with each iteration.

 

I think iPods are leaps and bounds a better product than when they first came out....

I always believed that the iPod sucked until really over the last year or so.  They really have become pretty awesome now.

 

 

Aww c'mon, the new nano is a plastic toy =/





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Comrade Tovya on 23 December 2008

No way bro... I was an iPod hater, and they've finally converted me to see the light that is a true MP3 player. And moreover, the iPod Touch is just bad ass... I love it.



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megaman79 on 23 December 2008

 

Not done too much to the share price though. If the rumour got around (which it always does).



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.