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Microsoft fires 27% of its employees

And AI is still pretty bad actually. In an another 2 years t...
lavender spectacular bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
"AI" is just cover for layoffs they would have don...
Mind-boggling mad cow disease pistol
  10/27/26
They’ll just replace them with jeets, either h1b or sh...
Rose Effete Kitty
  10/27/26
Since they’re offering Packages to retirement aged peo...
Dull hominid hissy fit
  10/27/26
Apparently jeets are losing jobs too
Vibrant turquoise pisswyrm church building
  10/27/26
sure bud
Umber razzmatazz kitchen
  10/27/26
...
Umber razzmatazz kitchen
  10/27/26
This is because of Xbox imho
Dull hominid hissy fit
  10/27/26
shut the hell up
Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home
  10/27/26
In this case he is correct. The State of Gaming has never be...
Cerebral partner
  10/27/26
I've been playing ScumSlav games like Wardogs and Tarko...
Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home
  10/27/26
PCs cost like $6000k now. Consoles are already Dead. PC gami...
Cerebral partner
  10/27/26
You can buy a Steam Machine for like $1500k or something. Hi...
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  10/27/26
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  10/27/26
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  10/28/26
The Gamepass strategy and its consequences have been a disas...
boyish ladyboy
  10/27/26
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Tripping really tough guy
  10/28/26
Avoiding unemployment seems pretty important right now. Most...
Orchid stirring lodge
  10/27/26
Ruination is nigh
Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home
  10/27/26
your hair circa 2009
trip state incel
  10/27/26
the only way out of all these excess ppl is a World War imo.
Beta blue location
  10/27/26
In-house bros are the safest because they are cheap. The law...
lavender spectacular bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
Yeah, law firm usage is definitely plummeting. But in-house...
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
No one is drafting the transaction docs in M&A inhouse w...
Orchid stirring lodge
  10/27/26
Yeah, this is really wrong. I’m at a $20bn shop with a...
lavender spectacular bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
Where it’s not saving any money is litigation because ...
lavender spectacular bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
AI's final joke is going to be exit ops for litigators ...
Out-of-control unhinged boltzmann crackhouse
  10/27/26
Well fuck
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
wait
MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  10/27/26
...
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  10/28/26
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  10/28/26
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Galvanic faggotry
  10/28/26
Actual interesting content from ARE Reptile. Go figure.
indigo institution preventive strike
  10/27/26
And who is the counterparty repped by and are you turning co...
Orchid stirring lodge
  10/27/26
K&L Gates was on the last email I just responded to. DLA...
lavender spectacular bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
I just re-read but not seeing biglaw. Is DLA code for V10?
Aromatic smoky cuck
  10/27/26
Out of curiosity, why Claude and not Harvey? Did you ensure...
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
Lmao
Orchid stirring lodge
  10/27/26
Anthropic is actually pretty obnoxious in terms of negotiati...
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
Who cares. These kinds of terms are for procurement lawyers....
Orchid stirring lodge
  10/27/26
They're a 6 person legal team. They probably don'...
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
Litigation is just a settlement exercise. Lol at litigators
Orchid stirring lodge
  10/27/26
Which, to your point, within the context of M&A, is goin...
gay aphrodisiac faggot firefighter
  10/27/26
In-house litigation is/was always a volume practice. Any sho...
lavender spectacular bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
I’m in a similar position and we’re doing 95% of...
boyish ladyboy
  10/27/26
Term sheets are way diff than definitive deal docs… W...
Orchid stirring lodge
  10/27/26
...
boyish ladyboy
  10/27/26
The "no backfills" thing is 100% accurate. Or if ...
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
Ime they replace like one Loser with several Women or Idiots
Dull hominid hissy fit
  10/27/26
That was actually "in better times." Now everyone...
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
cowshit was fired from Curation like ten years ago but it st...
Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home
  10/27/26
10 years ago is like several lifetimes ago at this point.
Soul-stirring community account rigpig
  10/27/26
It was 5 iirc
Dull hominid hissy fit
  10/27/26
100% agree. I’m seeing it across my industry—at...
Tripping really tough guy
  10/28/26
...
Adulterous Parlour
  10/27/26
...
MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  10/27/26
Trump’s America
Insecure olive cumskin yarmulke
  10/27/26
they offered buyouts to 60k, last time only one third accept...
Bistre massive psychic selfie
  10/27/26
They’re just trying to get rid of Gen X.
Dull hominid hissy fit
  10/27/26
There are people there who have been working on Excel and Ou...
lemon hairless macaca
  10/28/26
*gets rewritten in Rust by dinner*
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Date: October 27th, 2026 6:22 AM
Author: lavender spectacular bawdyhouse

And AI is still pretty bad actually. In an another 2 years they will let another 50% go. Humans are done here.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205400)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 2:10 PM
Author: Mind-boggling mad cow disease pistol

"AI" is just cover for layoffs they would have done anyway

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206446)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 6:24 AM
Author: Rose Effete Kitty

They’ll just replace them with jeets, either h1b or ship jobs to India if they can’t

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205402)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 8:58 AM
Author: Dull hominid hissy fit

Since they’re offering Packages to retirement aged people or close to it, this will make MSFT much, much more Indian as a consequence, since Gen X is by far the whitest Gen in software.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205526)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 8:59 AM
Author: Vibrant turquoise pisswyrm church building

Apparently jeets are losing jobs too

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205533)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: Umber razzmatazz kitchen

sure bud

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205698)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: Umber razzmatazz kitchen



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205696)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 8:57 AM
Author: Dull hominid hissy fit

This is because of Xbox imho

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205522)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:00 AM
Author: Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home

shut the hell up

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205537)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:02 AM
Author: Cerebral partner

In this case he is correct. The State of Gaming has never been more dire. It was our only chance for a Reprieve during the AI monsoon.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205544)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 12:02 PM
Author: Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home

I've been playing ScumSlav games like Wardogs and Tarkov. Gaming has never been stronger unless you're Sony.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205907)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: Cerebral partner

PCs cost like $6000k now. Consoles are already Dead. PC gaming will now soon be Dead. We're just going to be left with AAA Cloudgamingslop soon.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205914)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 12:39 PM
Author: Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home

You can buy a Steam Machine for like $1500k or something. High end cards have always been out of reach for most and obviously even more so today.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206108)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 10:21 AM
Author: misunderstood curious principal's office fortuitous meteor



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205707)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: exciting magical candlestick maker base



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206657)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 1:12 AM
Author: charismatic sexy liquid oxygen



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50208573)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:07 AM
Author: boyish ladyboy

The Gamepass strategy and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205565)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:25 PM
Author: Tripping really tough guy



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210706)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:08 AM
Author: Orchid stirring lodge

Avoiding unemployment seems pretty important right now. Most people aren’t doing layoffs but basically everyone is just not backfilling for people that leave unless they’re in key leadership positions. Standard inhouse counsel seem kind of done here

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205568)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:10 AM
Author: Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home

Ruination is nigh

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205570)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: trip state incel

your hair circa 2009

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205638)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:45 AM
Author: Beta blue location

the only way out of all these excess ppl is a World War imo.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205635)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 10:18 AM
Author: lavender spectacular bawdyhouse

In-house bros are the safest because they are cheap. The law firm model is fucked. In-house papers everything internally with Claude now. A $300m M&A deal used to generate a million in fees +/-. Now it’s maybe $300k and you paying most of that for a legal opinion letter, and hand holding through regulatory clearances and basically zero dollars for diligence and zero dollars for drafting docs.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205691)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 12:21 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

Yeah, law firm usage is definitely plummeting. But in-house headcount is also decreasing. It is just bad news across the board for pretty much everyone.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205986)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 1:54 PM
Author: Orchid stirring lodge

No one is drafting the transaction docs in M&A inhouse with Claude. The firm lawyers probably already are though. Diligence is actually probably more costly now because AI can spin up so many new requests so quickly and be anal as fuck. M&A is one of the protected fields.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206401)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: lavender spectacular bawdyhouse

Yeah, this is really wrong. I’m at a $20bn shop with a 6 person in-house team. We are papering a $300m M&A right now internally and the only thing I need outside counsel for is legal opinion letters and their hand holding me through SFC landmines. Claude is doing everything else. It also built my $1bn private markets book for me with $20k in outside counsel spend for some sanity checks. Our legal spend it down at least 50% in the last year.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206655)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:23 PM
Author: lavender spectacular bawdyhouse

Where it’s not saving any money is litigation because pleadings are longer and everything is slop and in-house lit doesn’t have time to spend 4 hours a day taking to Claude the way transactional lawyers do. Litigation spend is actually up.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206665)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:30 PM
Author: Out-of-control unhinged boltzmann crackhouse

AI's final joke is going to be exit ops for litigators ONLY

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206677)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:30 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

Well fuck

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206830)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 5:53 PM
Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus

wait

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50207101)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:34 PM
Author: Godawful hairraiser indian lodge



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50208046)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 6:53 PM
Author: lemon hairless macaca



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210562)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:25 PM
Author: Tripping really tough guy



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210709)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: Galvanic faggotry



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210782)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:35 PM
Author: indigo institution preventive strike

Actual interesting content from ARE Reptile. Go figure.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206691)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:17 PM
Author: Orchid stirring lodge

And who is the counterparty repped by and are you turning comments directly to their outside counsel? You’re inhouse directly at PE?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206797)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 6:04 PM
Author: lavender spectacular bawdyhouse

K&L Gates was on the last email I just responded to. DLA on the one before that. All Biglaw.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50207119)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:25 PM
Author: Aromatic smoky cuck

I just re-read but not seeing biglaw. Is DLA code for V10?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50207987)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:29 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

Out of curiosity, why Claude and not Harvey? Did you ensure that your agreement with them includes the terms you need?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206826)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:29 PM
Author: Orchid stirring lodge

Lmao

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206827)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:32 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

Anthropic is actually pretty obnoxious in terms of negotiating terms lawyers look for to preserve privilege. Harvey has Claude models as well, btw. At my company I have access to both and Gemini.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206835)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:33 PM
Author: Orchid stirring lodge

Who cares. These kinds of terms are for procurement lawyers. No one cares

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206837)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:34 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

They're a 6 person legal team. They probably don't have a "procurement lawyer." He also said they're dealing with increased litigation. This is exactly the sort of detail that gets you fucked in discovery.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206843)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:35 PM
Author: Orchid stirring lodge

Litigation is just a settlement exercise. Lol at litigators

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206851)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: gay aphrodisiac faggot firefighter

Which, to your point, within the context of M&A, is going to be controlled by terms negotiated between firms

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206864)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 5:57 PM
Author: lavender spectacular bawdyhouse

In-house litigation is/was always a volume practice. Any shop with enough litigation to bring in an in-house dedicated litigator is saddling the guy with 30 or 40 or 200 cases. The guy is just there to police spend. He is never drafting pleadings or motions. Commercial practice is never that kind of volume game so you have time to work with Claude to paper whole transactions. In-house lit has too much volume to wait the 10 minutes for a Claude turn. The economics aren’t going to be the same.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50207109)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:31 PM
Author: boyish ladyboy

I’m in a similar position and we’re doing 95% of our term sheets in-house and using outside counsel for first time on deal docs for a new transaction but using AI when it’s similar to something from before.

Long term issue is that some of the non-legal folks are going to start to use Claude to do this stuff on their own and then I’m fucked.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206833)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:35 PM
Author: Orchid stirring lodge

Term sheets are way diff than definitive deal docs… We did those inhouse before AI existed.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206847)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:42 PM
Author: boyish ladyboy



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206872)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

The "no backfills" thing is 100% accurate. Or if someone gets a backfill it will be one person for every 2-4 lost with a preference for an internal hire whose position won't be replaced.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205988)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:31 PM
Author: Dull hominid hissy fit

Ime they replace like one Loser with several Women or Idiots

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206678)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

That was actually "in better times." Now everyone is getting fired and no one is getting replaced.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206820)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:28 PM
Author: Multi-colored bat shit crazy nursing home

cowshit was fired from Curation like ten years ago but it still feels like yesterday to him

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206824)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:30 PM
Author: Soul-stirring community account rigpig

10 years ago is like several lifetimes ago at this point.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206829)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:28 PM
Author: Dull hominid hissy fit

It was 5 iirc

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50208011)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:26 PM
Author: Tripping really tough guy

100% agree. I’m seeing it across my industry—at my company and at my competitors.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210713)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:56 AM
Author: Adulterous Parlour



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50205644)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 5:53 PM
Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50207100)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:23 PM
Author: Insecure olive cumskin yarmulke

Trump’s America

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206813)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 4:42 PM
Author: Bistre massive psychic selfie

they offered buyouts to 60k, last time only one third accepted, this time maybe less

they get like 4m severance plus 1m more for each year so like i dunno maybe some ppl in 50s have banked enouh they just take it

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50206873)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:27 PM
Author: Dull hominid hissy fit

They’re just trying to get rid of Gen X.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50208004)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 6:54 PM
Author: lemon hairless macaca

There are people there who have been working on Excel and Outlook for the past 30 years.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210565)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:47 PM
Author: Comical School

*gets rewritten in Rust by dinner*

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210783)



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:59 PM
Author: Cerebral partner



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5914893&forum_id=2#50210828)