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The FTC isn’t happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs (www.polygon.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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The FTC isn’t happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs::The Federal Trade Commission is still looking to reverse Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Now, it’s telling on Microsoft after massive layoffs.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who could have possibly predicted this outcome!?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Anybody with brain? 🙄

[–] kewjo 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft lawyer Rakesh Kilaru wrote that Microsoft was already considering layoffs before the merger.

Corporate gaslighting at it's finest. we planned to layoff ~1000 employees from the company we were acquiring before we agreed not to do that!

[–] Treczoks 1 points 9 months ago

"agreed"

[–] TheDarkKnight 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I bet Satya is gonna get a stern letter and have to promise not to do it again!

[–] ripcord 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe the first part. Not the second part.

[–] eporetsky 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not too late to do your job, FTC

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

FTC is doing its job and has been fighting this from the beginning. Need the courts to do their job and side with the FTC.

[–] jaybone 4 points 9 months ago

In other news: The FTC won’t do Jack shit about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe they’ll shake up the customer care which treats players like shit.