Microsoft confirms performance-based job cuts across departments

And by low performance they mean:<p>1. Your risk averse PHB didn&#x27;t take a liking to your jokes about his haircut.<p>2. You deviated from some arbitrary metrics that allow your boss to pretend to know if you&#x27;re working (higher metrics = better job!)<p>3. You made an &quot;anonymous&quot; suggestion to use Linux as a desktop OS in the early 2000s.<p>4. You were under a &quot;PIP&quot; because your boss had a quota of PIPs to roll out, and now he has a quota of people to terminate. Tag, you&#x27;re it.<p>5. Upper management thinks it needs &quot;hardcore&quot; employees like Musk does, except unlike Musk they&#x27;re not gonna answer the phone at 3am on Sunday, sleep under a desk, or work 80+ hrs if they don&#x27;t have to. And they don&#x27;t.<p>6. Morale is low, so terminations will continue until morale improves.

&gt; “When people are not performing, we take the appropriate action,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an email, confirming the job cuts.<p>Time to make the taskbar moveable. And add some more svchost.exe processes in the process. &#x2F;s<p>TBH, this explains the silly bugs in Windows like double clicks on a single click of the mouse, or the scroll wheel not working properly. No bugs -&gt; no performance -&gt; termination.