They did just fire the GitHub CEO and merge the company into their AI branch, though 🤮
assimilation
“Assuming direct control”
Embrace
of course they did, that was the entire reason they bought it in the first place.
Give them some time too thoroughly fuck up Github, sorry i meant M$ CoreAI.
they will pilot github till the co is dead
My company got acquired by them. Not only did half our company get laid off. But the company was also sold for pennies on the dollar of what my coworkers bought their options for (I never exercised them. Way to much risk and I was right).
But a lot of people believed in a company that was aquiring customers. Especially when we got Microsoft as a customer. So, a lot of people were “encouraged to exercise their options as talk of a large order for our product from Microsoft was in talks”. Literally managers talking about how they were buying options so they could sell at long term capital gains.
Instead of being a customer though they ended up buying us out as we lost investors after COVID. Half the company was laid off. I survived somehow.
This was around the time that Israel began it’s genocide in Gaza. My hatred towards our small companies leaders and Microsoft was peak. I was fully remote and spent two years collecting a paycheck. The acquisition ended up throwing away all my previous work and I got placed in a “middleman” position that basically didn’t need to exist. Somehow I did almost no work for two years and didn’t get fired. I joined meetings, and basically just sat as a middleman communicating requirements between a team from the old company with the current Microsoft team.
Not until I started being active in criticism in Microsoft’s support of genocide in Gaza. That’s when suddenly I was told I "hadn’t met expectations and they said I had ‘abandoned’ my job. I was literally a remote worker and continued responding to all work requests. So I was fired but without any chance of unemployment.
So, yeah, I hate this company with a burning passion. Not only are their practices of company acquisition completely parasitic but they are actively enabling the slaughter of children in Gaza.
Tech companies aren’t “tech” companies. They are all war and genocide profitiers. I don’t think I can work in this industry anymore. And it’s nearly impossible to find a small company that isn’t already connected to these tech oligarchs in a major way. And if they aren’t they aren’t hiring.
Fuck Microsoft. Fuck Israel. Fuck Capitalism. Fuck this country.
