Good people remember though and hold a grudge if you insult them on the way out the door. People you want to hire in the future are watching as well. There's in

Good people remember though and hold a grudge if you insult them on the way out the door. People you want to hire in the future are watching as well. There's incentive to be classy (ex: Microsoft's https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing-on-our-short-and-long-term-opportunity/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing...) unless the whole ship is going down. Edit: That being said, after actually reading it, the Meta letter is relatively classy. The HN comments made it seem worse than it was.