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I never enjoyed TechLead's main channel content but respected him (and still do) for covering the 2019 employee suicide at Facebook when they tried to sweep it
by Lammy 5y ago
I never enjoyed TechLead's main channel content but respected him (and still do) for covering the 2019 employee suicide at Facebook when they tried to sweep it under the rug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEQriZEfoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEQriZEfoI
Backstory: an H-1B Facebook Ads-team employee was on a PIP, was denied internal transfer, and had a SEV follow-up task he was called to present at a SEV Review. I don't have any first-hand knowledge of pressure-levels within Ads, but considering that's where the money comes from I assume it's pretty high. He tried to request more time, but a task nagbot kept changing the task "due date" back any time he tried to adjust it. He never made it to that SEV Review #JusticeForQin
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoThank you for posting this, I didn't know it happened. It looks like they also fired another person who was talking about it: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/facebook-employee-i-was-fired-for-talking-about-colleagues-suicide.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/facebook-employee-i-was-fire...
- xiphias2 5y agoI just found the LinkedIn of Yi Yin, he got a job from Google just in time after being kicked out of Facebook for speaking up: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yi-yin/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/yi-yin/
- ozzythecat 5y agoWas FB objectively wrong for firing him and he was a good employee? When you say FB tried to sweep it under the rug - what were they exactly in the wrong for? Losing your job being the reason to commit suicide sounds like this employee had bigger mental health issues. Not defending FB, and I don’t use their products nor believe in anything they’re doing.
- ryloric 5y agoThe H1B probably only caused more pressure on them. It's far worse if you get fired on an H1B.