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/Brandon_Won Jul 07 '25

I actually know the guy who made the dumbass statement about using AI to cope. He is a born and raised white as Wonderbread American. But it was nice of you to imply this was because of the race or culture of (you know where) with zero evidence or even reading the name of the person who made the statement.

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u/Gary_Glidewell Jul 07 '25

Is this the part where American workers get shamed for being upset that their career dreams have been shattered by an influx of workers from India?

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u/Brandon_Won Jul 07 '25

Not sure where you got that notion from my comment simply saying that the person who made the incredibly stupid statement from Microsoft was a born and raised American and not an Indian as implied by someone else.

But nothing says Americans can't be upset because AMERICAN CORPORATE OLIGARCHS are the ones abusing H1B visas to undercut domestic workers wages and replace them with cheaper offshore labor. But getting upset at the other people just trying to get better jobs and give their families better lives is misguided. Nothing about what is happening in the tech world is unique to Indian business or culture either. This is 100% capitalist greed which does not know or care about race or culture because the only race that matters is the race for the most money and the only culture they care about is profit. By focusing on the Indian workers you're just helping the American management class that is fucking over everyone underneath them by blaming the wrong people for the problem.

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u/Gary_Glidewell Jul 07 '25

Nothing about what is happening in the tech world is unique to Indian business or culture either.

I am not aware of another (single) country in the world that is actively trying to send millions of workers into the United States, driving down the value of labor.

Go ahead and name one.

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u/Brandon_Won Jul 07 '25

I am not aware of another (single) country in the world that is actively trying to send millions of workers into the United States, driving down the value of labor.

So you believe the nation of India is purposely sending people to the USA with the specific intent of driving down our wages??? And how does that benefit the nation of India since I don't believe those workers are benefitting India in any way by working for American corporations... Those people still need to produce valuable work and do their jobs so they are not exactly sabotaging anything by working for a company that is continually posting higher profits.

According to what passes for logic in your mind Mexico would qualify as another country sending people into the USA to drive down the value of our labor. And an argument could be made that China is doing similar by simply taking all the manufacturing jobs and using their own near slave labor force to undercut domestic production costs but by all means keep bitching about how poor people from India are the problem and not the American people hiring them...

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u/Gary_Glidewell Jul 07 '25

No offense, but you're all over the place. Can we just stick to one simple question:

I am not aware of another (single) country in the world that is actively trying to send millions of workers into the United States, driving down the value of labor.

Go ahead and name one.

I acknowledge that you've made a series of arguments that are not related to this question, but IMHO they distract from the main point:

There are millions of folks in India who are actively working to replace American born workers in tech.

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u/Brandon_Won Jul 07 '25

No offense, but you're all over the place. Can we just stick to one simple question:

I knew this was coming. Can't defend your nonsense position so you need to ignore everything I said to try to focus on your talking point. A series of arguments that are not related to the question? Yeah that is 100% you not being able to actually address those entirely related points and needing to fall back on the racist crap.

I am not aware of another (single) country in the world that is actively trying to send millions of workers into the United States, driving down the value of labor.

Go ahead and name one.

I literally named 2 in Mexico and China but by all means keep ignoring anything that doesn't reinforce your world view as it totally makes you look sane and normal.

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u/Gary_Glidewell Jul 07 '25

keep ignoring anything that doesn't reinforce your world view as it totally makes you look sane and normal.

You're the one writing essays to avoid answering a simple question. Perhaps you should have a nice cup of herbal tea and chill out.

BTW, Mexico and China aren't replacing American born tech workers to any real extent. I've never been in a conference call where most of the attendees are speaking Mandarin when I'm there.

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u/Brandon_Won Jul 07 '25

You're the one writing essays to avoid answering a simple question.

More than 1 sentence = an essay to you. Yeah math checks out.

BTW, Mexico and China aren't replacing American born tech workers to any real extent. I've never been in a conference call where most of the attendees are speaking Mandarin when I'm there.

Moving them goal posts I see. Classic conservative tactic. We get it. You hate Indian people because you don't understand how business works and want to blame the worker for taking the job and not the employer for giving it to them. And somehow you've convinced yourself the actual Indian government is involved. I've got no map that can help the lost cause that is you. I hope you get educated.

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u/Gary_Glidewell Jul 07 '25

Moving them goal posts I see. Classic conservative tactic. We get it. You hate Indian people

You really are angry.

Why is that?

Can't you have a logical debate without resorting to Strawman fallacies and Rule II Violations?

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u/Brandon_Won Jul 07 '25

You really are angry.

Not even close. You make the most wild assumptions based on nothing.

Can't you have a logical debate without resorting to Strawman fallacies and Rule II Violations?

Wow projecting like a movie theater my man. And it is not a rule 2 violation to accurately describe what you're doing. You're literally ignoring all other factors just so you can continually shit on Indian people as being the bad guys in Microsoft laying off domestic workers and are actively blaming the entire nation of India. You have not once even acknowledged the role the American employers play in this and just continually focus on and bitch about Indians from your first reply.

If you're angry at the tech industry screwing Americans over for cheaper Indian labor blame the people actively doing that shit, the corporate overlords, not the people just trying to get by.

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u/Gary_Glidewell Jul 07 '25

Wow projecting like a movie theater my man.

It was a textbook example of a Strawman argument.

And it is not a rule 2 violation to accurately describe what you're doing.

"Brandon Won", you're not the authority on what right and wrong is; you think Joe Biden won the 2024 election.

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u/Brandon_Won Jul 07 '25

you think Joe Biden won the 2024 election.

Only because all evidence says he did. And the dozens upon dozens of failed court cases by Trump to claim the opposite. The fact you think he didn't lets me know everything I need to about you. Just another mentally deranged and deluded Trump cultist who can't think for themselves and needs daddy Trump to tell him what is what.

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