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Microsoft fires 27% of its employees

And AI is still pretty bad actually. In an another 2 years t...
snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life
  10/27/26
"AI" is just cover for layoffs they would have don...
Trip school digit ratio
  10/27/26
They’ll just replace them with jeets, either h1b or sh...
soggy mediation
  10/27/26
Since they’re offering Packages to retirement aged peo...
narrow-minded purple locale messiness
  10/27/26
Apparently jeets are losing jobs too
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  10/27/26
sure bud
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  10/27/26
...
slate out-of-control gaping
  10/27/26
This is because of Xbox imho
narrow-minded purple locale messiness
  10/27/26
shut the hell up
Umber mad-dog skullcap
  10/27/26
In this case he is correct. The State of Gaming has never be...
Insanely creepy ape gas station
  10/27/26
I've been playing ScumSlav games like Wardogs and Tarko...
Umber mad-dog skullcap
  10/27/26
PCs cost like $6000k now. Consoles are already Dead. PC gami...
Insanely creepy ape gas station
  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...
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  10/27/26
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Massive Son Of Senegal
  10/28/26
Avoiding unemployment seems pretty important right now. Most...
talented thirsty stead
  10/27/26
Ruination is nigh
Umber mad-dog skullcap
  10/27/26
your hair circa 2009
Pontificating office
  10/27/26
the only way out of all these excess ppl is a World War imo.
Aromatic ceo genital piercing
  10/27/26
In-house bros are the safest because they are cheap. The law...
snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life
  10/27/26
Yeah, law firm usage is definitely plummeting. But in-house...
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
No one is drafting the transaction docs in M&A inhouse w...
talented thirsty stead
  10/27/26
Yeah, this is really wrong. I’m at a $20bn shop with a...
snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life
  10/27/26
Where it’s not saving any money is litigation because ...
snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life
  10/27/26
AI's final joke is going to be exit ops for litigators ...
Bateful impertinent faggot firefighter
  10/27/26
Well fuck
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
wait
MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  10/27/26
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  10/28/26
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Light Fragrant Meetinghouse
  10/28/26
Actual interesting content from ARE Reptile. Go figure.
Fear-inspiring Spectacular Doctorate
  10/27/26
And who is the counterparty repped by and are you turning co...
talented thirsty stead
  10/27/26
K&L Gates was on the last email I just responded to. DLA...
snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life
  10/27/26
I just re-read but not seeing biglaw. Is DLA code for V10?
Slippery step-uncle's house
  10/27/26
Out of curiosity, why Claude and not Harvey? Did you ensure...
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
Lmao
talented thirsty stead
  10/27/26
Anthropic is actually pretty obnoxious in terms of negotiati...
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
Who cares. These kinds of terms are for procurement lawyers....
talented thirsty stead
  10/27/26
They're a 6 person legal team. They probably don'...
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
Litigation is just a settlement exercise. Lol at litigators
talented thirsty stead
  10/27/26
Which, to your point, within the context of M&A, is goin...
Internet-worthy giraffe senate
  10/27/26
In-house litigation is/was always a volume practice. Any sho...
snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life
  10/27/26
I’m in a similar position and we’re doing 95% of...
Carmine High-end Bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
Term sheets are way diff than definitive deal docs… W...
talented thirsty stead
  10/27/26
...
Carmine High-end Bawdyhouse
  10/27/26
The "no backfills" thing is 100% accurate. Or if ...
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
Ime they replace like one Loser with several Women or Idiots
narrow-minded purple locale messiness
  10/27/26
That was actually "in better times." Now everyone...
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
cowshit was fired from Curation like ten years ago but it st...
Umber mad-dog skullcap
  10/27/26
10 years ago is like several lifetimes ago at this point.
frozen slap-happy house
  10/27/26
It was 5 iirc
narrow-minded purple locale messiness
  10/27/26
100% agree. I’m seeing it across my industry—at...
Massive Son Of Senegal
  10/28/26
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Stirring private investor
  10/27/26
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MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  10/27/26
Trump’s America
Shivering Multi-billionaire Cuckold
  10/27/26
they offered buyouts to 60k, last time only one third accept...
chocolate goyim
  10/27/26
They’re just trying to get rid of Gen X.
narrow-minded purple locale messiness
  10/27/26
There are people there who have been working on Excel and Ou...
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  10/28/26
*gets rewritten in Rust by dinner*
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Date: October 27th, 2026 6:22 AM
Author: snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life

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: Trip school digit ratio

"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: soggy mediation

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: narrow-minded purple locale messiness

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: beta histrionic point puppy

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: slate out-of-control gaping

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: slate out-of-control gaping



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



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Date: October 27th, 2026 8:57 AM
Author: narrow-minded purple locale messiness

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: Umber mad-dog skullcap

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: Insanely creepy ape gas station

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: Umber mad-dog skullcap

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: Insanely creepy ape gas station

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: Umber mad-dog skullcap

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: Maniacal Aphrodisiac Range Circlehead



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



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: razzmatazz den dragon



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



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Date: October 28th, 2026 1:12 AM
Author: dull arousing generalized bond nursing home



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



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:07 AM
Author: Carmine High-end Bawdyhouse

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: Massive Son Of Senegal



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



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:08 AM
Author: talented thirsty stead

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: Umber mad-dog skullcap

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: Pontificating office

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: Aromatic ceo genital piercing

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: snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life

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: frozen slap-happy house

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: talented thirsty stead

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: snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life

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: snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life

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: Bateful impertinent faggot firefighter

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: frozen slap-happy house

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: Violent prole principal's office



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



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Date: October 28th, 2026 6:53 PM
Author: thriller ungodly crotch



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



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:25 PM
Author: Massive Son Of Senegal



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



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Date: October 28th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: Light Fragrant Meetinghouse



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



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Date: October 27th, 2026 3:35 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Spectacular Doctorate

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: talented thirsty stead

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: snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life

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: Slippery step-uncle's house

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: frozen slap-happy house

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: talented thirsty stead

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: frozen slap-happy house

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: talented thirsty stead

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: frozen slap-happy house

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: talented thirsty stead

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: Internet-worthy giraffe senate

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: snowy stimulating organic girlfriend goal in life

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: Carmine High-end Bawdyhouse

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: talented thirsty stead

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: Carmine High-end Bawdyhouse



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



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Date: October 27th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: frozen slap-happy house

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: narrow-minded purple locale messiness

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: frozen slap-happy house

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: Umber mad-dog skullcap

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: frozen slap-happy house

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: narrow-minded purple locale messiness

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: Massive Son Of Senegal

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: Stirring private investor



(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: Shivering Multi-billionaire Cuckold

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: chocolate goyim

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: narrow-minded purple locale messiness

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: thriller ungodly crotch

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: Contagious mood coffee pot

*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: Insanely creepy ape gas station



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