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

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[–] breadsmasher 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sho 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Amazon looking at this headline while keeping slaves

[–] disguy_ovahea 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] not_that_guy05 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Allonzee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

Be thankful Zuck left you your kidneys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Do you know how cruel you have to be in order to one-up a literal Nazi?