{"id":969631,"date":"2025-10-27T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969631"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:47:24","slug":"it-feels-like-a-betrayal-ex-microsoft-manager-62-opens-up-on-being-laid-off-and-leaving-big-tech-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/27\/it-feels-like-a-betrayal-ex-microsoft-manager-62-opens-up-on-being-laid-off-and-leaving-big-tech-after-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It feels like a betrayal,\u2019 ex-Microsoft manager, 62, opens up on being laid off and leaving big tech after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a career spanning over two decades at Microsoft, 62-year-old Joe Friend was laid off in May, disrupting his retirement plans. Nearly six months after the layoff, he is still unsure about what to do next, except that his time in Big Tech is over, according to a report by Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Friend, who worked as a director of product management at Microsoft with a team of nine members, heard rumours of company restructuring that could impact the managers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a career spanning over two decades at Microsoft, 62-year-old Joe Friend was laid off in May, disrupting his retirement plans. Nearly six months after the layoff, he is still unsure about what to do next, except that his time in Big Tech is over, according to a report by Business Insider. Earlier this year, Friend, who worked as a director of product management at Microsoft with a team of nine members, heard rumours of company restructuring that could impact the managers.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969631","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=969631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}