But this cannot be! Our economy is STRONG, our collective socialist will is STRONG. Our lies and manipulation of data are STRONG as are the obfuscations and misinterpretations of the media when it falls on the side of the Blessed One.
MSFT hits 14 year high and is over $45/sh for the first time since the dot com bubble.
We need more STEM workers and amnesty so says Bill Gates.
Plucked from the webpage: “The previous record came during the lowest point of the Great Recession, when Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) cut more than 5,000 jobs in 2009 — the first mass layoff in the company’s history.”
The “Great Recession” eh.
hopefully they will get rid of all the India tech support guys. I cannot understand a word they speak. Bring the remaining jobs back to the USA.
I get investment advisers telling me that my retirement funds need to be in aggressive stock funds to take advantage of this “irrationally exuberant” stock market, but I’m not buying it. I am seeing too many businesses shuttered, too many lay-offs, too many signs of a coming depression that will make 2008 look like a picnic. This administration is setting the stage for it, they are exacerbating the situation by their policies, and the latent fall is just around the corner.
I’m afraid that when the fall suddenly occurs, the markets WON’T LET YOU, by executive decree, of course, sell out of your position. This sounds like crazy talk, but look at what’s happened so far with his edicts?
I think our economy is weak, no doubt about that statement, and mass layoffs are a horrible thing in most cases. However, MS really hasn’t had a stellar record as of late. They botched the release of Windows 8, the Surface looks to be a failure, Sync is not a good OS system for auto use, barely anybody uses the Windows phone, and the Xbox 1 pissed off gamers with their draconian DRM and expensive price tag. You just can’t keep on releasing crappy products and hope to grow off that type of track record.
But there’s a shortage of high skilled workers, according to the greed heads. Here’s 18k more to add to the pile and ignore while looking overseas for new blood.
18,000 is a disaster. It’s a drop in the bucket overall in the obummer economy, and it’s a complete, total disaster in human numbers.
I’m betting there will be ~18,000 new employees in India working on a Microsoft contract. The race to the bottom continues....
A Penny saved is a Penny earned.
As true today as it was hundreds of years ago.
Just wait until those folks go searching for insurance. My hope is that they all voted for Obama.