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I,too, have been impacted by layoffs. I myself was at a "unicorn" startup in my country and couldn't continue there once the pandemic began. I didn't get a stor
by anshumankmr 4y ago
I,too, have been impacted by layoffs. I myself was at a "unicorn" startup in my country and couldn't continue there once the pandemic began. I didn't get a story about me personally either (that being said there was quite a lot of articles about the events that happened where I worked).
That being said, its a little different for this guy cause
a)
as the parent commenter mentioned, the guy uprooted his life and moved to a new country and laid off almost instantaneously.
b) I don't think he asked the press to write a story on him, he wrote a LinkedIn post
c) this isn't the Time magazine doing a puff piece for somebody, it's just some person from Business Insider who saw a viral post on LinkedIn and wrote a story about it.
- autotune 4y agoAnd how many times has that happened in the past with nobody batting an eye about it? Why does it only matter now that it's at a META company?
- anshumankmr 4y agoI think you answered it yourself, right? MAANG are the poster children of Big-Tech and that invites clicks and views. That being said, if people are more aware of such things, there is a chance we can ask for better conditions in the future.
- autotune 4y agoI guess you have a point.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI suspect some of the criticism you are getting in these comments is due to comments of yours that seem to point to the villain in this case as The Media for not, I guess, reporting all misguided layoffs. Perhaps you are correct. Perhaps the solution to these heartless layoffs is to put a spotlight on each and every one of them in order to shame and embarrass the executives at all companies. But I suspect many people see instead deflection — you are absolving Meta's management because The Media dropped the ball a long time ago.