Four firings in two days.
Just one part of why I fired Microsoft from my life.
Didn’t really expect them to do anything different, but at point someone’s gonna have the “Are we the baddies?” realization right?
I assume that’s how the former and current Microsoft employees wound up here. Management, on the other hand, is not selected for their self-awareness.
They broke into the president of Microsofts office. Do you think that they shouldn’t be fired for doing that? You can’t just do whatever you want in the name of “protest”.
There’s zero reason to give a shit about rules and norms that are being used as cover for aiding genocide.
Microsoft aren’t “aiding genocide” ffs. Some protesters feelings don’t mean they can just break whatever rules they want without consequences.
FAFO.
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The person you are replying to is a well known openly fascist MAGA apologist. There is little point in attempting any kind of good faith discussion with them.
You sound like LLM before LLMs were a thing. Confidently wrong.
Some reading material:
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/israeli-military-gaza-war-microsoft
- https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
- https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/
Firstly your entire premise depends on there undoubtedly being a genocide, despite that not being an established fact.
Secondly, you’re basically saying any company that provides products or services to a country that anyone accuses of a genocide is complicit and helping the genocide happen? That’s ridiculous and quite frankly idiotic.
Good for the fired employees. It sucks that they were fired, but by resisting, they escaped the wrong side of history. Symbolic gestures like this matter
What a depressing comment section this article has
Missing context: They broke into the President of Microsoft’s office. Of course they were fired lol.
They weren’t fired for participating in a protest, they were fired for breaking into the presidents office for their protest.
Not true. First two were fired for that, these two were fired for “other reasons”. They were never inside the office.
<…> "in connection” with demonstrations that saw protesters set up encampments at Microsoft’s headquarters <…>
So because they had something to do with it, makes no difference.
Maybe not to someone who’s a genocide denier but I don’t think your opinions matter much to most people.
You care enough to follow me around and reply to me apparently :)
If anyone is reading this scroll through their comments they have no real opinions and get off on making people mad. Not even worth the thought power to prove them wrong block and move on like I’m doing after sending this.
I’m sure you are. Just like last time. See you next week ;).
