Joke advice to Microsoft: lay off engineers from their own day-in-life vlogs
dotey · x · 2026-10-27
A developer jokingly pitched Microsoft a layoff strategy: search YouTube for "Day in the Life of a Microsoft Engineer" and you'll get a list of people who "only eat and don't work"—lay them off. The viral quip mocks the trend of tech employees posting cushy office-life vlogs. Popular Chinese tech blogger dotey shared it with a laughing-crying reaction.
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