This morning at 8:00 a.m., I got a last minute meeting invite titled business update with my whole team, my manager, my manager’s manager, and someone from HR. So, I think we’re all about to be laid off. This is getting out of control. Microsoft layoffs are becoming bigger than ever as their sales chief is taking a leave of absence ahead of layoffs. There is a lot of layoffs right now. A lot of people are being fired.
You’re going to be seeing a lot of videos of people being fired, people losing their jobs. It sucks. This isn’t a good job market. This is actually one of the worst job markets ever and spearheading some of the biggest tech layoffs. It’s going to be our boy Microsoft as there’s already massive rumors. In fact, some of these rumors are already confirmed by big sources that Microsoft will be doing Xbox layoffs in the next like day or two. And Microsoft is probably firing about 2,000 people. And that’s insane considering that last year they fired 1,900, which is basically almost 2,000 people in the Xbox and gaming divisions after acquiring Activision Blizzard. So Microsoft is constantly firing people.
There’s so many layoffs to the point that even their head of sales is like, “Yeah, this is getting extreme. This is getting intense.” And is basically leaving Microsoft. And if you look to Microsoft, I mean, in May, they fired about 6,000 people, and a lot of them are irreplaceable workers like computer science majors, programmers, and coders. But Microsoft said that 30% of their code is now written by AI. So, there’s no point of paying top dollar for these people. And considering that the job market is so bad, a lot of these people are going to be in a struggling mode. I know your resume says that you worked at Microsoft, but that would have gotten you a easy job back in 2019, but we’re we’re in a post-pandemic world where interest rates are high and many companies aren’t exactly hiring. Even if you have an incredible resume or CV that has Microsoft on it, it’s still very difficult for you to find another tech job. Techies right now are really scared. Another big scary thing that many techies are also really freaked out about is the no severance thing.
A lot of techies were basically fired and were denied severance pay. And this is what Microsoft did back in February this year with like 2,000 employees. And the tech layoffs are intensifying. It’s getting bigger. 141 companies laid off over 62,000 workers. And that number is still growing. And mind you, the 62,000 number, these are going to be some of the highest paying Americans here in the States. These are going to people who are buying houses, buying cars, and consuming and spending heavily. These are not going to be the people making like $15, $20 an hour. These are going to be people who are making 100k, 200k, $300,000 a year. These are some of the biggest spenders of America.
Basically, some of the highest paying jobs are now disappearing. And Meta is also doing fat layoffs as well as they’re quietly planning some of the biggest layoffs this year. These guys already fired a good like four or five,000 people. And these are all very highpaying members of Meta. And there’s even leak memos that came out that basically said that Meta just needs to start finding more and more people. And the memo also states that managers are giving a thumbs up to lay off high performing employees if they couldn’t meet the reduction targets solely by cutting lowperforming employees. The tech layoffs are serious. And the tech bros are honestly getting kind of scared. Even freaking Intel fired 21,000 people this year and quitting their automotive business recently and firing 15,000 people last year. basically fired a third of their entire workforce in a span of less than 12 months, which is honestly really scary. The job market is basically cooked. A lot of people being fired.
Everyone’s having a rough time. And even Microsoft sales chief is like, “Yep, I’m heading out.” Check out some of these videos. 28 years ago, I started in this building as a contractor. And uh know a lot of you guys want story time as to the last video. Listen, I don’t want to leave. I like my job here. I’m going to miss my friends. I’ve said goodbye to everybody today. This is officially my last day at Microsoft and you know doing the old tour around to some buildings I used to work at and you know saying goodbye to people but this is where it started. This is where it’s going to end. I do want to say I know a lot of people think I have ill will or I’m angry. I’m just sad. Uh I like working for Microsoft. I get it’s a big corporation. They can only do what they can do. But I want to thank them for all they’ve done for me over the years. I really have enjoyed working here and I’m going to miss it an awful lot. So everybody that has all those weird comments in the last one, they really are a good company. I don’t like how this is ending. But did anyone else get laid off from Microsoft today? No, just my husband. Yeah, unfortunately. Yeah, we had some surprise news this morning.
There was a bunch of layoffs at Microsoft and a lot of people in Seattle area did get laid off with severance packages, including him. So um we now have a big decision to make whether we stay here in the US or go back to Australia. It all depends on where he can find another job. Uh so yeah, if anyone has any job opportunities or contacts for, you know, jobs in tech, in program management, coding, that kind of stuff, yeah, just hit me up in the comments. Especially if it’s here in the Seattle Bellev area or even back in Australia, like in Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Brizzy. Um we’re open. We’re open to seeing what we can get and seeing where this leads. Okay. Thanks. Hello. Hello there. How are you? You know, I don’t want to be the bear of bad news, but honestly, I’m not sure what’s about to go on. I have a meeting on my calendar for work that says important business update. I marked as required. In the body of the email, it says, “Please make every effort to prioritize attending this meeting.” It’s cryptic. So contradicted eyes on my lips. I licked it. You nick. I’m playing. But I got this email two hours ago. The realistic side is, oh, this could be a layoff. But at the same time, I feel like with layoffs, they do like a little 5 minute like, hey, can we give like 5 minutes of your time or like 15 minutes? And they’ll always add HR.
It’s four people in a meeting. Okay. So, the T is content like content design boots. Who is he? He’s a HR business partner. Yeah. This is the story of getting escorted out of the Empire State Building when getting fired from my last job. This is a good one, so keep watching. So, it’s August 2022 and a recruiter reaches out to me about a job working at the world’s largest outdoor advertising firm, which if you want to know the company, you can find out the name pretty easily from that stat. And I can make a separate video about all the red flags of this job, but this video is just about the getting fired part. So, I don’t know if they knew that I was planning on quitting or not, but before Thanksgiving, I cleaned out my entire desk. Not in an overtly obvious way. I didn’t have that much there to begin with. Also printed out all of like my statements, tax forms, just things I would need to have to be organized and prepared to leave. So, I believe it was Tuesday, December 6th. I remember that because we had just had our Christmas party. So naturally, I was in like hosting content creation, home holiday decor wonderland, making it extra depressing to go back to the office Tuesday and work on Excel and Illustrator all day and be surrounded by people who, despite being kind, just lacked passion and purpose. No offense to them.
My mom always says, “If you have to say no offense, then you probably shouldn’t say this statement to begin with because you probably are offending somebody. Why is she always right? Anyway, it’s Tuesday, like 11:00 a.m. and the HR girl comes over to me and is like, “Hey, can you come chat?” So, in the back of my head, I’m thinking, “Yay, am I getting fired?” But that’s just my sarcastic subconscious talking to myself because it’s actually incredibly hard to get fired. So, I’m like, “Sure.” And I walk over with her. So, I walk into the HR office and she has my boss on the phone cuz she’s traveling. Background on her. She’s like a 50-year-old woman who actually had the role that I was currently in when she was my age and then worked her way up. She also doesn’t have any kids and her husband travels all the time as well. So, she’s in like three different cities every week. She was nice, but like the team would kind of always talk [ ] about her, so I would just feel so awkward and be like and just like keep my mouth shut. But it was really hard to relate to her because she only really talked about like vacations she was going on to avoid her family at the holidays. I don’t know. I didn’t have a problem with her. Just we didn’t have this amazing connection. So, needless to say, this lady does not give a [ ] And she’s very blunt.
So, I walk in the HR office. They have her on the phone and she’s like, “Hey, Kate. This will be your last day. Bye.” And after she hangs up, I can tell that the two HR people feel so awkward because they literally say, “This is so awkward. Normally it doesn’t go like this.” And I don’t really know what they meant, but I was like, “Oh, well, hopefully I can make this easy for you guys, aka like not freak out and not be offended by how my boss just handled that.” They’re like, “Yeah, we always expect people to cry.” Why the [ __ ] Anyway, so I’m like, “Nope, all good.” Um, but in my head for the sake of being professional, then I asked, “Can you give me like feedback on my work?” This part’s pretty funny because they literally had Well, I got fired today, guys.
My ex and his brother-in-law are going to love that. I got the call around a little after 4:00. They told me that my numbers hadn’t been the best. And that for the last couple years, they did like a full report. I was averaging about four quality appointments a week and let me go. And you know, I did stand up for myself. I did let them know that the last few months I felt like I hadn’t been given the best opportunity. And then I finally start getting a, you know, better community, better exec, and my numbers are increasing. And then also my sales are increasing and it just it didn’t work out. And my department manager did let me know that like I could use him as a reference moving forward because he said I am a really hard worker and he am I upset? Yeah, I did cry a little, but in a way I am relieved and I don’t feel as much panic as I would if I did not have a car because I know with this car, with my online beauty business, I can still have some income coming in. I went and I got a milkshake because I didn’t know what else to do. Called my boyfriend.
I kind of am in shock right now, but I I know that it’s for the better because I just have been really unhappy working at that company. So, I think it’ll be for the best. Really sucks because I loved my boss. She’s one of the best managers, hardest workers. I will definitely still be keeping in touch with her. shocked. I guess they’re doing mass firings right now. I was told I’m not the only one. And it does feel like deja vu from the first time I got let go from my very first corporate job postgrad. But I made it through that. And the one thing I’m not going to do is, you know, be afraid to go back to corporate. I’m going to just apply. So, if anyone’s looking for a really hard worker, someone who’s outgoing, who’s bubbly, who is a team player, who’s a problem solver, who has a lot of experience with either new media marketing, digital marketing, sales, um, customer relationship management. I am your girl. Please feel free to message me privately.
I would love to work for your company or your small business. Maybe you’re a startup. I don’t know. But I’m grateful that I have my car because, you know, not only can I still use this to make money Door Dashing and Instacarting, but I also can um go now to a job if I needed to find something else. And honestly, I am so relieved because I hated seeing my ex every single freaking Zoom meeting we’d have and just don’t date co-workers. Lessoned learned. Um, I’m going to start over. And it’s not me giving up. It’s they closed the door on me. So, it’s me starting over. It’s a new chapter, new beginning. And as much as like I am panicked because I do have a lot of bills, I also know that when the push comes to shove, I work my little booty off. No doubt in my mind that I’m going to be able to come back from this stronger and that this is happening right now for a reason. God has a plan for me. Um, I’m not going to allow myself to go into a depression like I did the last time when I got let go from a company. This is why people really truly do need to have multiple sources of income and why you need to realize corporate America does not care about you. They care about numbers and how much money you’re making them.
They don’t care about if you have to keep food on the table or a roof over your head. So, just take this time to realize that you really truly do need to think about an extra source of income. And I have that opportunity if someone’s looking for it. So, you best believe I’m going to pour my heart and soul into my business. You best believe I’m going to be busting my butt. Best believe. I should have known when on the Monday morning meeting there was a lot of new hires. Just know that you were more than a number. You are more than a number. You are worth it. And it is so important to build your own so that people can’t take it from you. So, I got fired 5 days after starting a job in a law firm. Welcome to my new series of awkward moments in my legal career because there have been a lot of them and I’m sure many more to come. What better place to start than at the very beginning? So, I was still technically studying at the time and I thought, look, it’s about time I got some work experience, managed to score a job at a boutique law firm. Was literally reception/admin, getting the mail, making coffees for clients, making sure the lights are on and making sure that the heating is on. I did those things. Remember at one point the manager came and wanted to meet with me, and he was sort of like, you know, you got to turn the lights on. You know, the air conditioning is here. I remember being like, okay, cool. A lot of the time, you know, like I’m not even the one turning on the lights or the heating because I’m not the first one in the office.
Usually, you know, one of the lawyers had come in at whatever ungodly hour they start work and, you know, I’ve already turned on the lights and it turned on the heating or turned off the heating because it got too hot. And anyways, I was like, “Okay, great.” Kept doing my job and it was fine. One point where my brother who happened to be working in a bakery right next to this office brought me a drink during my lunch break. So, I met him, you know, just outside. So, I think it was later that day um when the director’s secretary came up to me and was like, “Hey, look, they’d like to meet with you after work quickly if that’s okay.” And it was then when they sort of told me, “Look, it’s just not working out.” I can’t really remember exactly how the course of that conversation went. But my takeaway from it was essentially that I wasn’t doing my job properly. In some ways, I felt a bit misunderstood because a lot of the time, again, like I said, when I got into the office, the lights were already on. I think to be fair, perhaps there were some lights in smaller areas, like maybe in the kitchen or one of the meeting rooms that hadn’t been turned on and I just hadn’t noticed because yeah, like the main lights were all on, but especially with the heating, it would get turned off by, you know, some of the staff because it just got too hot. Um, and then by the time that the manager came in, he’d see the heating wasn’t turned on.
They didn’t like that I was having a conversation with my brother right outside the office. It looked really unprofessional, like what if a client was to come? And I think they also thought that I was starting work late. I think there were a few things where I felt a little bit misunderstood, but I just I didn’t defend myself. But with the benefit of hindsight, I am grateful that I did get fired because I feel like if I didn’t, I would have stayed there for a long time. I would have been working in an area of law that I didn’t really find particularly interesting. I would have been stuck, you know, working as admin for who knows how long. I am now working as a lawyer. I was hired about a year after I think I got fired. Um, I’m working in an area of law that I really quite enjoy. don’t have to make coffees or turn on the lights anymore because, you know, we all know I’m apparently really trash at that. So, apparently this might be my last week working at my job. Like, I don’t know for sure, but like a few minutes ago, I did receive a text or like a Teams chat message and they said, “Herd is your last week.” And I said, “That’s so weird because I didn’t quit.” So, I don’t know if I should take this as a sign that I’m being fired. But, if that’s the case, I just feel bad for the girl who told me because it’s kind of like she spilled the beans on this one. But, I don’t want to make her feel bad about this. So, I just wrote her back and I said, “Lol, like not that I know of.” And then I put a smiley face emoji. I guess I have to just wait and see. But just know that if I start posting videos trying to teach you guys how to do makeup, like that’s what happened. Y’all, my corporate job just fired me. I went in today all nicely dressed like I am. And you know, they sat me down and told me they were letting me go. After six years at this company, I am no longer there. And you know what? I’m not even upset. Is that is that bad? Is that bad not to feel upset about the situation? Like I’ve been getting questions from family and they’re like, “How do you feel?” And my response to them has literally been, “I feel free.” The reason before y’all even get, you know, to thinking that it was because of something that I posted on here, it was not. It was because of budget cuts. And not only was I let go, but others were, too. So, yeah, that was still surprising to me. I mean I immediately asked in my I guess exit just like just want to make sure that this is not about performance and they clarified this is not about your performance. This is solely based on you know us not getting the grants and these things that we were thought we were getting and us having to cut back.
And so I had to write it all down as they were talking cuz I had to make sure like what what after 6 years I know God has a plan for me. I’ve been blessed with almost 18,000 of you on this platform and I am so thankful. I hope they never take this platform away because I am so thankful for you all. And just know that it’s about to come. Like when y’all see me, just know just know it’s cuz baby that job let her go. I’m going to have more for y’all. I don’t have much now. I’m still kind of in shock but not upset. Feel like God puts you in certain positions in your life. He makes you do stuff that you wouldn’t do. Like I would have never put myself in this position to be even a little bit uncomfortable, but he did that for me. I just know there’s something big coming. I know there’s something big. So y’all, y’all going to see a lot more of me.
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