Microsoft Laying Off 18,000.....

First they say they need foreign workers to compete.

The only thing stopping runaway growth is the inability of US Corporations to find qualified American workers. Foreign workers are a needed to do the work Americans are too incompetent to do.

If only competent people could be found there would be no limit to the growth. Please, please, please let them bring in record numbers of foreign workers.

Then to prove their point (that they can’t find enough workers) they lay off 18,000 workers they do have. You know….so they can grow.

12,500 layoffs are coming from the Nokia side of the business.

See at first nobody cared about Windows phone. So Microsoft purchased Nokia, thinking somehow that would make people care. But people still didn’t care. As a result half of Nokia will be wiped out.

That still leaves 5,500 layoffs from the Microsoft side of the business. The previous layoff record at Microsoft was 5,800 in 2009. Microsoft’s new CEO is committed to trying to break that record. Inspiring!

http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/17/microsoft-cuts-18-000-jobs-as-part-its-largest-layoff-ever/