Posted on 01/17/2023 9:53:16 PM PST by fluorescence
Signature effect of the Biden administrtion.
oh great...now the coal mine workers will have too much competition when they take up coding
“Dems: Let them learn to code. Unemployed: We’ve been there, done that.”
which means it’s now time for them to learn to mine coal ...
A programmer friend described how tech workers at many clients resented the contractors because they knew they were paid better and wouldn’t be forced to work weekends/holidays because it cost the client too much. Many of the tech workers at clients had stepped off the contractor track (took a job offer from a client) for some stability/benefits but in that industry it sort of froze your value/earnings (while the value of contractors continued climbing as long as they were always learning new programs and such).
As long as my friend was a programmer he never took a regular position with a client, and when he’d had enough he left the field altogether (to work with Americans again).
Microsoft’s culture under Nadella is a complete 180 from life under former CEO Ballmer. Everyone is treated with respect and has a voice. Anyone employed under Ballmer would echo this sentiment.
Microsoft develops and sells numerous products. Amazon and Google rely HEAVILY on ad revenue.
In spite of that, Microsoft stock outperformed Amazon and Google stock on one, five, and ten year charts.
Only Apple stock - which is mostly in the hardware business - has outperformed Microsoft, and only slightly.
Also, Microsoft pays a 1.13% dividend. Amazon and Google pay no dividend, and Apple pays just 0.6%.
Completely agree, yet the exact opposite is what's going to happen.
There are rumors of deep cuts coming at the large multinational bank that I work for. I'm 60. If they let me go I have a two-year severance built up based on my longevity. I'd be fine if they let me go. Have a nest egg built up just for this purpose to take me to 65 and I was planning on retiring at the end of this year anyway after I was given a substantial bonus at the end of 2022 to keep me to the end of this year.
I do feel bad for anyone with families that are going to feel the impact of pResident Retards horrific economic consequences as a result of every single bad decision he's made since stealing office.
Thousands upon thousands of software engineers; yet, I have to wait for my freshly booted-up computer to flash the screen twice before I can use it.
We’re screwed in the IT industry. Take a look at Dice, Monster, LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter and very nearly every recruiter is Indian. They have taken over. I’m 63 and cannot get most people to talk to me, when they do, I cannot begin to understand them and I’ve worked with distributed teams since 2000 yet the current Indians running HR barely speak English. They don’t know US labor laws either, or don’t care—asking for date of birth, including year. I’m waiting for one to say they are looking for someone younger so I can sue them into retirement.
Yeah, some prefer one or the other. I just prefer non-contract. I can understand both ways on it.
I live in N Nevada high desert-—about 35 miles east of Carson City.
It was announced last week that MICROSOFT has bought 274 acres-—just west of roundabout at intersection of US 50 & US 95-A —across from local airport-—for a DATA CENTER. Apparently this is a CLOUD facility.
2008 for me.
Maybe they can learn to code?
Most of the jobs at Microsoft in the greater Redmond/Bellevue/Seattle area are drone jobs. Pruning that tree will benefit everybody who has to endure the pain of using Windows/Office/et al.
One only needs to look at the dismal experience of the current Window’s SaaS model with the accompanying incalculably amateurish update/upgrade scenarios to see what a fiasco the organization has become.
That is purely my opinion, based on the personal pain coming from using Windows daily professionally for well over thirty years.
time for them to mine coal....
Great 1960s British theater show was Beyond the Fringe with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and others.
Scene of coal miners.
1st: What would you do if you get too old and lose the talents and mind needed to be a coal miner?
2nd: If I got really bad and my mind was gone for mining I guess I’d quit and go into something like judging.
My friend had no family to provide for so he opted for the contractor work; as a married father I understand why people take stable assignments with companies.
Here’s Why laying off 10,000 workers at Microsoft is almost meaningless.
You can see in just 1 year, Microsoft hired 40,000 workers in 2022 (Goodness, how do you hire 40,000 people in just 1 year? That means employees just spent time interviewing and not working in 2022).
So, cutting 10,000 is meaningless as Microsoft will probably cut another 10,000 by end of summer 2023.
Notice each year prior from 2019, 2020, Microsoft only hired 20,000 each year. So, hiring 40,000 people in just 1 year is an outlier and points to the company over hiring by 20,000.
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