[HN Gopher] Dozens of fired Meta employees are writing 'badge po...
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Dozens of fired Meta employees are writing 'badge posts' on social
media
Author : zeroonetwothree
Score : 20 points
Date : 2022-11-12 19:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.businessinsider.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.businessinsider.com)
| thot_experiment wrote:
| Weird to see meta employees humanized in this way. They all made
| the choice to throw their lot in with zuck, and they continued to
| make that choice every day they showed up for work.
|
| It's hard to feel sympathy, everyone there can get a lower paying
| job that is beneficial to society and they choose not to. That's
| on them. Nobody at meta lacks other options.
| bsaul wrote:
| I have no sympathy for facebook as a company, but i find it
| hard to believe that someone would find it weird to have human
| express human feelings upon being fired. They're not
| "humanized", they're humans.
| thot_experiment wrote:
| Right, but it's sort of like seeing, I dunno, a documentary
| about some human facet of a murderous dictatorial regime. In
| a way it's mortifying to be viscerally reminded that humans
| capable of being hurt are casually inflicting so much harm on
| humanity. That they're completely insulated from the second
| and third order effects of their work. Just following orders
| without thought.
| bsaul wrote:
| you should probably get some distance from IT for a while
| to get some perspective. Facebook was in the advertising
| business... Not better but not worst than what this sector
| previously did to help brands manipulate the opinion.
|
| It's certainly a great loss to have so many brilliant minds
| work in that crappy business, but let's not compare that to
| any kind of atrocities humans have been capable of in the
| west in the 20th century.
| thot_experiment wrote:
| You may be right, I hope you are. I make posts in this
| vein partially in the hope that someone will convince me
| I am wrong because it would be a hell of a burden lifted
| off my shoulders if I could exist in this world without
| feeling constantly assaulted by FB/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon
| etc.
|
| To be clear though, while I think ads/fake news etc are
| bad, they're not the main reasons I am so negative. I
| believe that at their core, these organizations operate
| under incentive structures that encourage dis-empowering
| people at every turn. Regulatory and userbase capture
| allow them to continually make choices that hurt users
| and help their bottom line.
|
| It feels like they are emblematic of a world view where
| normal people aren't trusted with the power of the
| computer. Where it's okay to play zero sum games. That's
| vile.
| [deleted]
| c7b wrote:
| > because they lost access to systems after learning they were
| laid off, they switched to LinkedIn instead to say farewell
|
| LinkedIn? What sort of verdict on Facebook is that?
| autotune wrote:
| > daddy Zuck
|
| After reading this phrase I think I need to take a long vacation
| from reading most major news sites until like 2024 or so when
| this all blows over.
| bsan3 wrote:
| All these people were happy to facilitate the destruction of
| society and spread fake news. I have no sympathy.
| throwawaymeta01 wrote:
| marcus0x62 wrote:
| Yes, the only reason people dislike Meta is because they
| couldn't pass a leetcode interview. Yeah, that's it. Only
| possible explanation.
| yumraj wrote:
| Unfortunately some of these posts landed on my LinkedIn timeline
| so read a few.
|
| I'm really not sure what these people are trying to achieve.
|
| Appeal to FB that they love it so much that pretty please rehire
| them?
|
| Appeal to others to hire them, well there are much better ways to
| write those notes.
|
| Personally, and maybe this is my bias against FB speaking, but if
| a person is saying that their entire worth was FB and FB this and
| that, and how lucky they were to be at FB, well it doesn't give
| me much confidence in the abilities of a person.
|
| On top of that, there's another set of people offering intros and
| mock interviews and such to strangers. Great for getting some
| likes, but not sure how much they will really help if say
| 100s/1000s of people were to ping them suddenly.
|
| In my opinion, these things work best quietly. Reach out on 1:1
| basis to people you know and expand network. Don't sob in public.
| q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote:
| It strikes me as a naturally human and totally understandable
| thing to do.
|
| This seems like their way of reclaiming some agency over what
| happened to them, as well as trying to put a brave face on
| things. Also it probably helps them (re)connect with some sense
| of community -- the article mentions they'd usually post these
| things on their internal forum, but they were ripped away from
| that community too quickly.
|
| Some might even say it's a classy move -- take a step back and
| reflect on the good parts, hand out some "thank you"s, etc.
|
| I never got into the whole "posting on LinkedIn" thing -- and I
| probably still wouldn't in this situation -- but I think it is
| easy enough to empathize and see why someone might. These are
| weird and rough economic times, and they're just doing their
| best to stay afloat. Same as you or me.
| disgruntledphd2 wrote:
| Personally, I agree with you. That being said, these posts
| originally appeared on consumer Facebook (but only visible to
| FB employees) and as such it was also about saying goodbye to
| friends you'd worked with. The sappiness just carried over to
| Workplace, and now LinkedIn apparently.
| 4wsn wrote:
| > In my opinion, these things work best quietly. Reach out on
| 1:1 basis to people you know and expand network. Don't sob in
| public.
|
| I concur but I noticed recently that with a lot of younger
| folks, it seems like a cultural shift.
|
| Maybe encouraged is a strong word, but at the very least it's
| far more acceptable to make these things public than, say a
| decade or two ago.
|
| I can't say it's wrong, per se, because I see the reasoning
| behind it. But there's a cultural clash.
|
| I haven't hired anyone in a while, but if I had to posts like
| these would definitely result in a hard pass, no matter their
| skills.
| lupire wrote:
| It's networking for people who need jobs, in the style of the
| current trend.
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