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LisaM

(29,686 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:47 PM Jul 2025

One of the layoffs was a good friend of mine.

He loved working at Microsoft, he loved his team, and he expected to retire from there in a few years. He was completely blindsided by being laid off, which came within a few days of his mother's death.

There are human beings attached to these layoffs.