Typical and most people in the US view CEO's as heroes. US income distribution is on the same level as fucking Russia.
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Pretty standard issue corporate psychopath.
An old friend was one of the people who got laid off in January. Fuck MSFT.
CEO = SIC: Shareholder in Chief
He made $12000 off each fired employee.
Per year. And lets not talk about his stock options and other benefits... Fucking disgusting.
He deserves it. He made the deal to own 49% of OpenAI, which is quickly becoming one of the most valuable companies of all time.
The board doesn’t care about the number of people employed. They care about the current profitability and future profitability.
Of course that’s their job; to look after shareholder interests. And the money would move to a better investment if they didn’t.
It’s the whole system you need to change, if you seek change, not moan about an individual CEO.
That's why Mitbestimmungsgesetz can be goddamn fucking awesome.
That would literally change everything for the better.
I've never heard of that. That's a cool idea.
Current profitability is up. Profit margins are also up from last year. But I could see investors looking at the lack of any path after the current Xbox and wondering why they employ so many there. I'm sure other areas have also seen some stagnation.
Regulate monopolies. Eat the rich.
Headline confused "despite" and "due to"
yeah lol what do they think is happening here
That’s roughly 30k for every employee laid off
If they were software engineers, they saved $200,000+ per person laid off
That's how he makes dem big bux, by telling other people to fuck off
Sounds like an easy sell to the board, then. It it's that much of a net positive in economics.
When was the last time you got a 63% raise?
70% workload raise
Well his compensation is tied to the stock price so it’s not exactly a “raise.” My employer’s stock is near an all time high right now so I’m not complaining about how much I made from the shares I sold, but neither do I consider it a “raise” because it’s not guaranteed to be the same next year.
At my last company, they usually gave end-of-the-year bonuses instead of raises. They were pretty generous, usually amounting to about half of our annual salaries, but it of course prevented us from being guaranteed that level of compensation the following year. That's why I always describe bonuses as raises followed by pay cuts.
Yeah pretty much. Everything about it is a hedge. They can pay less if their numbers tell them to. They can lay you off and not give you anything. They can make more cash disappear if they have to. It’s the squirrelliest shit yet they cast it like a gift from god.
March 2023
Eh, congrats! New Job?
I'm self employed.
Found out I'm depressed, decided to reduce work to 3 days a week.
Raised prices to reduce clients. Turns out I now make more, doing less work. It is what it is.
I once quit my job at a software company I really hated. They were desperate to keep me around for the projects I was leading so they asked if I would work hourly for a while. I quoted them a go-fuck-yourselves hourly rate which they immediately agreed to, which made me even more angry about my prior years of poor compensation. I worked under this agreement for about half a year and further improved my effective hourly rate by not working very hard.
Dont mean to pry, but I'll gladly do whatever you're doing
He’s mainly dealing with depression.
Only 2 days a week for depression? Rookie numbers
His salary increase must be inversely proportional to the quality increase in Windows 11.
Well Windows wasn't an important Microsoft product for like 15 years now. It's been like 7 years when Microsoft is a company mostly selling cloud Linux services. Ridiculous I know, but that's from their yearly financial reports. It seems their plan is to cash out Windows as fast as possible before dropping it.
You're saying he deserves more?!
Because, not despite.
Immaculate concision
his payrise is equivalent to something like 3000 US workers minimum wage annual salaries
if my math is correct (which it probably isn't)
Yup, that checks out for me.
That said, that's the federal minimum wage, which almost nobody actually gets (article says $1M people).
Well, yeah. How do you think they could afford Nadella's pay raise?
I would like to propose some changes to that title:
Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, ~~despite~~ [because of] devastating year for layoffs: 2550 ~~jobs lost~~ [employees were fired by their greedy CEO] in 2024 [because he wanted more money]
fuck him not just for making those people's lives miserable, but for stamping down the fucking wages of everyone else in tech by flooding the fucking market
I just want one outlet to break the shit cycle and report it for what it is : CEO got big pay rises thanks to savings made by eliminating jobs.
That is simply the neutral truth.
It’s not some freakish occurance, not some overtime golden goal shit, this is how it works. It’s the norm.
Thinking of all the cool products this CEO has killed off. I would love to see this company split up so that maybe they could innovate again.
Let's start exercising that 2nd amendment y'all!