Microsoft Hosted Sting Performance in Davos on Night Before Announcing Layoffs

Is this satire, blindness, or just youthful optimism?

It was supposed to sound like a good thing, but it was out of context, so made me think, why even mention it, almost like they have an agenda to sell here.

It's not like the WEF is super exclusive, I remember seeing a job offer from a small tech company who got bought for 10M Euro, I read about this company's history and found the founder's Facebook page. He had pictures of a prop plane, I think he spent some of the money learning to fly, and 2-3 pics where he's in Davos, including a blurry selfie of him standing in line for lunch at the WEF in front of Bill Clinton.

Yeah no one else does either.

There's a lot of merit to face to face meetings - if you could have a date over FaceTime or in real life, which would you prefer? - and of course it's only the elite/influential people who are invited, they're the ones with the power to change things. Whether or not they're capable of fixing the world or if their hands are somewhat tied because of politics or shareholder motivations, is a different question.

For some populism: I do think most politicians/elites care more about their career/wallet rather than the world.

When we did a team event it was volunteering together. No fancy restaurants like last year for the same reason - we don't want to be wasteful in an unclear market.

I am disappointed in our execs doing this. I understand it was already probably pre-booked and it was probably just a few hours in a lot of long and frustrating leadership meeting but the optics are bad. Satya is usually such a respected leader for knowing how to do the right thing and avoid these situations, bummer.

As someone who got into tech as a self taught engineer at age 25 I am always blown away by the entitled nature of people around me who either A) don't work that hard and goof around on the clock and B) complain when we're literally coddled to the brim with free food, free trips to events every year, and various other free benefits.

I remember not getting a $0.25 per hour raise one year and being upset about it for a minute. I didn't have free top of the line health insurance (no insurance actually), nor did my company just pay for things that have nothing to do with my job. As someone who went from a few hundred bucks in his bank account to now literally six figures in my checking, and much more in stocks and investments (which are down lol), even if I got laid off I know I'm probably getting 5 years x service + 3-4 months full pay severance worst case scenario.

All I'm saying is that we're playing the game (capitalism) and companies will cut their losses. That's just how it works and we choose to sign offer letters, and yes I feel much worse for my friends who are not in tech who can barely afford to put food on the table or meet rent than a fellow tech bro who has to cancel his luxury Lake Tahoe cabin rental during these economic hardship times.