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Microsoft executives: time for a $500 million raise! We deserve it for increasing efficiency!
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don't have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.
on one hand, booo ai baaaad 👎👎 however average experience with Microsoft software engineers says nothing valuable may have been lost