Meta layoffs mark a new and harsher era for the company and Silicon Valley at large.

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    8 天前

    people work for facebook for the “prestige”. congrats, you sold your soul to a snake. I would never hire you.

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      8 天前

      Honestly I would be embarrassed to put that I worked for meta or twitter on my resumé

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        Eh, Twitter is fine. They got it stable enough that Musk couldn’t fuck it up when he started taking axes to servers.

        As long as they left in the first purge.

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    8 天前

    That’s all the way fucked. They’re calling them performance-based layoffs. Whether it’s true or not, that’s a class-action slander suit waiting to happen.

    There’s a reason corporations typically only provide start and end dates and don’t allow a manager to provide references. If a manager wrote a great reference about one former employee and not another, and they both happened to apply to the same company, the implication is enough for a potential slander suit. The only way I could skirt HR was to provide a personal reference that did not mention work, but exemplified their skills anecdotally.

    I hope this costs Meta a lot of money.

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    8 天前

    I remember faang when it was enviable to work for top tech companies. They’ve all gone to shit.

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      7 天前

      A family friend of ours worked at a FAANG for almost a decade before seeing the writing on the wall early last year and switching to the automated sex toy industry.

      Says it’s the best decision he ever made lmao.

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    8 天前

    They could have quit if they didn’t like it there, but we all know is about the money that they weren’t willing to give up.

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    8 天前

    Get in bed with capitalists, all you’ll get is fleas.

    Be thankful Zuck left you your kidneys.