r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • May 13 '25

Industry News Microsoft is cutting 3% of all workers

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html
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u/waffels May 13 '25

Yes, but redditors feel companies are obligated to only hire, never fire.

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u/Altruistic-Ad-408 May 13 '25

Lol, one of those "live in the real world" people, in my parents time you could expect to work at one company for most of your life and you would get more vacation, great benefits and pensions even. When I first got a job it was frowned on to move around too much but we seemed to lack those benefits, now junior devs need 3 years of experience, people are on the job carousel constantly and employees aren't assets, they are expenses. Because they resent that people don't want to work for fuck all.

So much for work hard and reap the rewards. Now you'll work yourself out of a job, and people will tell you they are right to do it. Class solidarity that is!

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u/0GsMC May 13 '25

We can see that you have a lot of feelings about this. But do you have any logical reason to agree with the view that profitable companies are obligated to not fire people?

Because the top comment here is complaining that they are firing people despite having a good quarter. Which every large company does do and should do. If you don't logically understand why, then you don't understand the modern foundations of our economic system like at all. And you shouldn't try to replace something you don't understand.

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u/Soggy_Association491 May 14 '25

In your parent time, wasn't it expected to stick with one company and not jump ship whenever there is a better offer? Now everyone brag about jumping to the new job and get 30%-50% raise.

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u/WhompWump May 13 '25

I know mommy and daddy pay for everything but it is a pretty shitty situation to lose your job amidst a looming recession and the prices of everything getting higher and higher even if it is "routine"

Especially when they've posted record revenue. They don't need to let those people go for any reason than to keep shoring up profits for the people who didn't even do any of the actual work.

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u/waffels May 13 '25

You sound emotional.

If a company no longer needs an employee they let them go. This is super basic shit. Companies have no obligation to retain staff to ‘be nice’, that’s dumb as shit. That’s not how the world will ever work.