{"id":962023,"date":"2025-09-16T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962023"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:29:59","slug":"microsoft-president-brad-smith-to-staff-anybody-smart-enough-to-get-a-job-here-is-smart-enough-to-know-you-dont-get-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/16\/microsoft-president-brad-smith-to-staff-anybody-smart-enough-to-get-a-job-here-is-smart-enough-to-know-you-dont-get-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft President Brad Smith to staff: Anybody smart enough to get a job here is smart enough to know you don&#8217;t get to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft President Brad Smith delivered a blunt message to employees during an internal meeting last week: workers who occupied his office during Gaza-related protests deserved to lose their jobs. &#8220;Let me say this, anybody who is smart enough to get a job at Microsoft is smart enough to know that you don&#8217;t get to storm in and break into buildings and occupy other people&#8217;s offices and keep your job at Microsoft,&#8221; Smith said, according to Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>The Redmond giant fired four employees in August after protesters broke into and occupied Smith&#8217;s office, participating in a sit-in that called for Microsoft to cut ties with the Israeli military amid the Gaza conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft President Brad Smith delivered a blunt message to employees during an internal meeting last week: workers who occupied his office during Gaza-related protests deserved to lose their jobs. &#8220;Let me say this, anybody who is smart enough to get a job at Microsoft is smart enough to know that you don&#8217;t get to storm in and break into buildings and occupy other people&#8217;s offices and keep your job at Microsoft,&#8221; Smith said, according to Business Insider. The Redmond giant fired four employees in August after protesters broke into and occupied Smith&#8217;s office, participating in a sit-in that called for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}