• @[email protected]
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    1611 months ago

    What you posted was at Microsoft itself. That story is from January 2023.

    The ActiBlizz deal didn’t close until October 2023.

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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      -611 months ago

      What you posted was at Microsoft itself. That story is from January 2023.

      The ActiBlizz deal didn’t close until October 2023.

      Agreed, and my Coder/QA/Artist/Designer friends who were laid off aren’t in Finance, HR, etc. They were all seniors in Engineering/QA/Art/Design departments.

      • @[email protected]
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        1211 months ago

        Dude you’re so confused right now.

        You’re suggesting layoffs announced today, within ActiBlizz teams, were preemptively carried out by Microsoft a year ago, 10 months before the merger closed and the ActiBlizz team was even part of Microsoft?

          • @[email protected]
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            911 months ago

            Nope. They’re conflating Microsoft layoffs a year ago as being part of a different round announced today. The 10k people let go in January of 2023 are long gone. They can’t fire them again now. Especially so since the 1900 just announced today have only been Microsoft employees since October.