<story><title>Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRV6PXB6QLk&amp;feature=youtu.be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Except every interviewer will be wondering why did Microsoft let go someone with so much experience. What did Microsoft know that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; on the resume.</text></item><item><author>badmadrad</author><text>Naturally, he is very disappointed but he should keep things in perspective. It&amp;#x27;s not that bad of situation to be in. You have 15 years of software development experience at Microsoft  and there are going to be a lot of open doors. This could really be blessing in disguise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhrgunatha</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know the details of the Microsoft case, but my job was made redundant a number of years ago and I definitely was able to bounce back.&lt;p&gt;There are lots of legal regulations around terminating employment and one of the easier legal ways is to remove a particular job or position. That&amp;#x27;s why generally people are not made redundant, their job, position or title is. It&amp;#x27;s a legal method of cutting costs by pruning the organisation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s nothing to do with whether you are a worthy employee. Redundancies don&amp;#x27;t work that way. They are a practical, legal way of reducing numbers - payroll and staff. In the video, he&amp;#x27;s wondering why they couldn&amp;#x27;t  simply find another position for him where he could apply his expertise. It&amp;#x27;s probably because they had to state his job is no longer viable and so the job (and the person occupying those jobs) are let go. If the company were to find other positions for their favorite employees, it opens all kinds of legal problems for HR.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRV6PXB6QLk&amp;feature=youtu.be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Except every interviewer will be wondering why did Microsoft let go someone with so much experience. What did Microsoft know that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; on the resume.</text></item><item><author>badmadrad</author><text>Naturally, he is very disappointed but he should keep things in perspective. It&amp;#x27;s not that bad of situation to be in. You have 15 years of software development experience at Microsoft  and there are going to be a lot of open doors. This could really be blessing in disguise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omnibrain</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s the case if he is one of 17k others.</text></comment>