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CommentPIP means you are going to be fired (Score 4, Insightful)65

Take the money and find a new job if you work for Microsoft USA

PIPs are always stacked against you. Management will move the goalposts or kill your project.

The thing that could blow up for Microsoft is, European employee rights are much stronger than the US, so they could be in for a bunch of tribunals.

Submission+-Trump Admin accidentially texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist (theguardian.com) 2

fahrbot-bot writes: The Guardian (and others) is reporting that a reporter at The Atlantic was accidentally included in a group text on Signal that discussed upcoming military strikes in Yemen by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

Senior members of Donald Trump’s cabinet have been involved in a serious security breach while discussing secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen.

In an extraordinary blunder, key figures in the Trump administration – including the vice-president, JD Vance, the defence secretary Pete Hegseth, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – used the commercial chat app Signal to convene and discuss plans – while also including a prominent journalist in the group.

Signal is not approved by the US government for sharing sensitive information.

Others in the chat included the Trump adviser Stephen Miller; Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles; and the key Trump envoy Steve Witkoff.

The breach was revealed in an Atlantic article published on Monday by Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, who discovered that he had been included in a Signal chat called “Houthi PC Small Group” and realizing that 18 other members of the group included Trump cabinet members.

Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he was unaware of the incident, saying, “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic.” [Which kind of misses the point.]

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