Layoffs are a failure of leadership.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@zackwhittaker

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2026/06/29/americas-richest-families-from-waltons-to-rockefellers--these-are-the-54-richest/

The Big Five are under orders from their investors to make room on the books for the AI boondoggle.
AI is an element of a fascist movement. Mass unemployment feeds fascism.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/09/ai-and-the-fight-between-democracy-and-autocracy/684095/

#FFFO
Fund a fascist & find out
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-corporation-msft-one-best-121118404.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-msft-falls-more-steeply-214502402.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-corporation-msft-fell-azure-140550026.html

Always hide poor management decisions within a corporate restructuring.
https://www.fool.com/coverage/stock-market-today/2026/06/11/stock-market-today-june-11-microsoft-falls-as-ai-spending-scrutiny-adds-to-xbox-restructuring-reports/

[phillip@social.lol]

@zackwhittaker Microsoft would have such a cash cow with Xbox if they would just chill out and let the nerds do their thing

[timelime@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker a company should never get so big that it doesn't notice it has thousands of unnecessary employees

[gbsills@social.vivaldi.net]

@zackwhittaker Managing a large corporation is all about making the value of the stock go up. That's it. Nothing else.

[wilsonjena@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker Even I was laid from my first Job back in 2019. But I took full responsibility. It is the system that we are plugged in. Rather than teaching everyone to create assets in schools or universities, they only teach us how to trade our time and freedom for money.

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker Bad, BAD 99%... how DARE you defy the great, overlord #TechBros and our .01% kingdom!?!

Bow and pray that we are forgiving of your malfeasance. All hail #AbuseOfPower!!

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Just replace them. Retire them to their luxury bunkers, early.

[bedifferent@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker When we were going through a bunch of companies not supporting voting, was Microsoft a part of them (zuck, mushy, bezos, etc.)? Layoffs are part of kleptocracy and capitalism and with scotus 6 fully supporting no voting (no justice), it wouldn't surprise me. Human beings are unimportant unless we buy their crap products so they can steal what chump isn't.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@BroadbandBreakfast @zackwhittaker marketing exageration

[mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker
We give multi-billion dollar corporations huge tax breaks on the grounds that they "create jobs".

We never rescind those tax breaks when they lay off thousands.

[wethepeople@mastos.online]

@zackwhittaker What is really fucked up is how people make money when others are layoff

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@zackwhittaker 23.200 to go ... It's a start, though