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steve mookie kong

“He [Phil Spencer] remains in his role, wants to be there for a while yet, and will remain receiving total compensation in the millions, pay that should in theory be a result of the scale of responsibility he is entrusted with. Getting paid millions while you're doing well makes sense! Continuing to be paid millions while your business sucks so badly you think you need to lay off workers because of your terrible decisions, or decisions you're responsible for, makes no sense.”

aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-mi

h/t: @bnys

aftermath.site · Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands - AftermathNone of the people being laid off were responsible for the decisions that have led to these layoffs
#xbox#microsoft#gaming
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Niklas Pivic

@pluralistic This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:

'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.

Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'

#google#layoffs
jbz

🫧 Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

｢ As the BBC reports, there's now something of a cottage industry for writers and coders who specialize in fixing AI's mistakes — and those who are good at it are using the opportunity to rake in cash ｣

futurism.com/companies-fixing-

Futurism · Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesBy Noor Al-Sibai
#ai#layoffs#bubble
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beSpacific

The #SupremeCourt on Monday allowed the #Trump administration to resume #layoffs #firing at Dept of #Education. The big picture: The unsigned 6-3 decision overturns a federal judge's order that found #Trump and #Education Secretary #LindaMcMahon did not have the power to shutter the agency. The court's three liberal justices blasted the decision for abetting Trump's #lawlessness. #maga #government #politics #corruption #SCOTUS #democracy #religion in #schools supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd

Nonilex

The #State Dept began firing >1,350 #US based employees Friday as the #Trump admin goes ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its #DiplomaticCorps, undermining US ability to defend & promote interests abroad.

The #layoffs, which affect 1,107 #CivilService & 246 #ForeignService officers in the US, come as the US faces multiple global #crises: #Russia's war in #Ukraine, the #Gaza conflict, & the #MiddleEast on edge due to tensions between #Israel & #Iran.

#SoftPower
reuters.com/legal/litigation/s

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beSpacific

#SupremeCourt Clears Way for Mass #Firings at #Federal Agencies. The #Trump administration had asked the #justices to block a lower #court’s ruling that paused the largest phase of the president’s efforts to #downsize the #government. nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/poli #democracy #Treasury #HHS #SCOTUS #KetanjiBrownJackson #dissent #DOGE #Musk #maga #fascism #firings #layoffs #RIF #HHS #StateDepartment #executiveorder #federalworkforce Executive Order federalregister.gov/documents/

The case represents a key test of the extent of President Trump’s power to reorganize the government without input from Congress.
The New York Times · Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Administration’s Mass Firings of Federal WorkersBy Abbie VanSickle
ThePfromtheO

#Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
#TheRegister article: theregister.com/2025/07/08/fir

"#Mozilla's management is a #bug, not a #feature"
"#Dominance does not equal #importance, nor is dominance the same as #relevance. The #snag at Mozilla is a #management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its #product nor which parts of it matter most to users."
"Don't #blame the #app, and don't even blame the #programmers. That is, the ones who still have #jobs, after years of #engineer #layoffs. Don't even blame the whole #organization – blame the #management. Steven himself has pointed this out before, early in 2024. So have I. In 2023, I said that Mozilla was asleep at the wheel."

The Register · Firefox is fine. The people running it are notBy Liam Proven
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