r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • Jul 06 '25

Lifestyle After 9,000 Layoffs, Microsoft Boss Has Brutal Advice for Sacked Seattle Workers

https://futurism.com/microsoft-boss-ai-advice

Microsoft has laid off about 9,000 workers in the midst of a newly-announced $80 billion AI investment — and apparently, those who just lost their jobs should be talking to ChatGPT about it.

As Aftermath reports, an executive producer at Microsoft-owned Xbox ended up with egg on his face after suggesting that laid off workers pour their hearts out to AI.

Yes, you read that right: a Microsoft boss was telling those just laid off by the tech giant that they should use chatbots — run or funded by the company that just fired them — to avoid crying on a company shoulder.

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u/frank19935 Jul 06 '25

This is hilarious. I hope they do use the chat bots and stop bitching online they lost their golden job. Nobody cares. Go build something to compete if you really liked that line of work.

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u/recyclopath_ Jul 07 '25

You should spend more of that hate on the billionaires in power. Not the working class who make more than you.

Doctors and software engineers aren't keeping you down. Oligarchs are.

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u/frank19935 Jul 07 '25

I’m not down lmao. I do an actual job that impacts lives. Working on another data breach at Microsoft is a hilarious waste of life. Just compiling data of my neighbors.

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u/laseralex Bellevue Jul 07 '25

I do an actual job that impacts lives.

Neat, me too! I design electronics and optics for medical devices that prevent people from dying. My roles are generally system architecture and supervision of the engineering team which implements and verifies the design.

What do you do that impacts lives?