Jobs not completely gone
Just severely reduced. Just got picked up by an outsider to work for Microsoft (posting as AC because of the NDA), at what I'm sure is a greatly reduced salary from what the poor sap whose job I stole got payed.
Details are emerging of how Microsoft plans to trim its costs while axing as few full-time staff as possible during the ongoing worldwide recession. On current projects, Microsoft is cutting payments to staffing agencies by ten per cent, and it won't raise the rate for temps who return following a mandatory, 100-day break, the …
You are actually complaining that a story about one of the worlds largest tech companies is squeezing contractors - many of whom fall within the target audience of this site?
Or has it been that long since you read anything other than a Paris or Playmobil article that you forgot what this site is actually about?