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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 153 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

"We're entering FY26 with clear priorities in security, quality, and AI transformation, building on our momentum and grounded in our mission and growth-mindset culture," Hood wrote, mentioning Nadella's email. "Both the pace of change and customer expectations are continuously accelerating."

Hood's email, notably, didn't mention Microsoft's recent workforce cuts, which have exceeded 10,000 this year even as profit swells. Nadella's email last week attempted to explain this "seeming incongruence" as the "enigma of success." Some employees weren't satisfied with the explanation.

These people get paid so much for spouting this utter bullshit every day. I hope they have moments when they realize the hollowness of what they do.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. What even the fuck is that string of complete nonsense? These C-suite dipshits say it so much, someone is eating it up.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The "someone" is the investors, or generally speaking, the market.

Major CEOs can't say they're taking a financial hit, for whatever reason. This is why I like working for small companies, and most Americans work for small businesses.

Last company: CEO announced to the board that he intended to lose money in order to build staff and products. Yes, he even included tech debt. The board applauded him.

Meh, we fucked around and still made a profit, so he gave the board the same report the following year, same results. We fucked around a made a profit. Again.

tl;dr: Don't mistake all CEOs for the bullshit you hear from Nadella and Musk and the like. Remember; You only hear crazy talk reported, because it's crazy talk.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

I would say Nadella is the biggest bullshitter of them all. I don't think I've heard him speak a single non-bullshit sentence.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Kinda like HMOs. You only hear about the bad ones because people in good ones don't bitch about them at every opportunity.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Worked for a company like that, but not everyone was happy. Investors were brought in and place went to shit. Sucks, but I got out just as it started getting worse.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

customer expectations are continuously accelerating

Just make a functional OS that doesn't get in user's ways. Those are the expectations.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 14 points 2 days ago

Microsoft doesn't expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

They know every single word is hollow. Eat it and rejoice peasant. Are you not filled?

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

I wounder how this person defines quality in their mind?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Burn the business colleges to the ground