Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    The latest cuts come as the company enjoys its fastest growth rate since early 2022, alongside improving profit margins. Last week, Alphabet reported a 15% jump in first-quarter revenue from a year earlier and announced its first-ever dividend and a $70 billion buyback.

    Repulsive.

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        “Juice the next 3 months.”

        Thats it. Thats the whole strategy each exec uses until they leave.

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            Quick answer this one question.

            You are given a button that upon pressing kills 100,000 people. The button does nothing else.

            Do you press the button?

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              Of course not. Why would I risk limiting our market share that way?

              I demonstrate synergy and the ability to run an agile ship by instead outsourcing development of an app charging 1,000,000,000 people $15 monthly for the privilege of pressing the button and posting that they weren’t it this month.

              Then I press it, because we must make sure our actions align with increasing shareholder value.

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                Ahh, see you have a conscience. Sorry you’re not billionaire material.

                I would have accepted:

                “Yes, for the mere thrill of it”

                “Yes, they deserve it”

                “Yes”

                “No, that isn’t nearly enough”

                “Yes, it’s my right”

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          I already made this comment on a completely different post, but it’s funny to see it’s fruition. McDonald’s executives bitching that fast food price increases have priced a lot of their low income customers off their menu… like they had no hand in it