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Dozens of fired Meta employees are writing 'badge posts' on social media

autotune 4y ago
> 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.
- ssttoo 4y ago
  I was at FB for 9+ years till 2020. Never heard that expression, ever.
  - autotune 4y ago
    If I was a FB employee and heard that from anyone I would probably quit on the spot.
bsan3 4y ago
All these people were happy to facilitate the destruction of society and spread fake news. I have no sympathy.
- throwawaymeta01 4y ago
  - marcus0x62 4y ago
    Yes, the only reason people dislike Meta is because they couldn’t pass a leetcode interview. Yeah, that’s it. Only possible explanation.
yumraj 4y ago
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 4y ago
  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.
- 4wsn 4y ago
  > 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.
thot_experiment 4y ago
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 4y ago
  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 4y ago
    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 4y ago
      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.
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      - thot_experiment 4y ago
        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.
c7b 4y ago
> 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?
type0 4y ago
Do they think they'll get a job at LinkedIn?
cr4nberry 4y ago
> Say what you will about social media, Meta, or daddy Zuck himself, but I am SO very grateful for everything this Company has done for me - it's hardly an exaggeration to say that Meta saved my life. this is the cringiest one I've heard so far. No wonder it came from someone in middle management
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> 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.

ssttoo 4y ago
I was at FB for 9+ years till 2020. Never heard that expression, ever.
- autotune 4y ago
  If I was a FB employee and heard that from anyone I would probably quit on the spot.

bsan3 4y ago

All these people were happy to facilitate the destruction of society and spread fake news. I have no sympathy.

throwawaymeta01 4y ago
- marcus0x62 4y ago
  Yes, the only reason people dislike Meta is because they couldn’t pass a leetcode interview. Yeah, that’s it. Only possible explanation.

yumraj 4y ago

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 4y ago
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.
4wsn 4y ago
> 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.

thot_experiment 4y ago

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 4y ago
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 4y ago
  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 4y ago
    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.
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    - thot_experiment 4y ago
      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.

c7b 4y ago

> 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?

type0 4y ago

Do they think they'll get a job at LinkedIn?

cr4nberry 4y ago

> Say what you will about social media, Meta, or daddy Zuck himself, but I am SO very grateful for everything this Company has done for me - it's hardly an exaggeration to say that Meta saved my life. this is the cringiest one I've heard so far. No wonder it came from someone in middle management

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