https://thelastbraincell.com/ The Last Brain Cell is a webcomic about everyday absurdity: tech news, corporate logic and the daily nonsense that makes you ask, where's the logic? en Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://thelastbraincell.com/comic/microsoft-layoffs-outage/ https://thelastbraincell.com/comic/microsoft-layoffs-outage/ Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT <p><img src="https://thelastbraincell.com/comics/2026-11-13.jpg" alt="Two-panel comic. Panel one: a tired man with messy hair and a black cat sit at a desk with a Microsoft mug, watching a screen that reads 'Breaking News: Microsoft cuts 5,000+ jobs in 2026. Voluntary exit packages offered to 60,000 employees. Profits up 31% to $133.7B.' Panel two, captioned 'Two weeks later': the man stares open-mouthed at the screen, which now reads 'Breaking News: Major Microsoft outage. Services disrupted worldwide', with Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook and Azure all marked offline. The cat looks unimpressed."></p><p>Microsoft cuts 5,000+ jobs, offers exit packages to 60,000 more and books $133.7 billion in annual profit. Seventeen days later, a global outage takes down Outlook, Teams and Copilot. Surely the two are completely unrelated.</p>