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Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada

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Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada

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Post by bluepizza »

Closi wrote: post #242
bluepizza wrote: post #85

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Doesn't have to inevitable, though. They literally have all the data.

> Doesn't have to inevitable, though. They literally have all the data. Even if you have all the data, lets say there is a 4 person team being reduced to 3 during this redundancy - What do you do? Fire Anne instead of Peter purely because Peter joined the team more recently? Sure that sounds more fair for Peter, but it's less fair for Anne.

Someone else suggested putting Peter at risk - inform him that in 3 months he will be part of a layoff, so that he has those 3 months to find a new job.

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Post by yreg »

Tao3300 wrote: post #405
yreg wrote: post #140

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Do we have a reason to believe he was treated poorly?

Okay, it's back to basics, I guess... How would you feel if someone did this to you? 1. :-) 2. :-| 3. :-( How do you think someone else would feel if you did this to them? 1. :-) 2. :-| 3. :-(

I need to know the terms of ending the contract to pick a face. It can be any of them.

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Post by Shocka1 »

mduggles wrote: post #66

I'm horrified by so many of the comments here that seem to lack even the most basic of human decency. Allow me to fill people in for those who have never uprooted your life and moved across the world for a job. It is a massive commitment on the part of the employee, where you sell the majority of your earthly possessions, property, cars, etc. Then you go through an immigration process which even if its handled by FAA…

Don't leave out that this person probably just went through a series of wonderful whiteboard hazing interviews as well.

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Post by chiefalchemist »

UncleMeat wrote: post #281
chiefalchemist wrote: post #240

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Fwiw I understand why people despise Don. But I don't understand the blind dedication to hate, especially when other politicians and leaders pull similar shenanigans and then there's crickets. If you're violently against X or Y that's fine. But apply the rules evenly, fairly, and rationally. When you hate so hard and so long that you lose your compass...that's irrational. The majority of Trump haters fall into this b…

I’m not aware of any other politician that attacks people from his own party for having names that “sound Chinese”.

You're right. Instead he should have shamelessly claimed his Peace Prize and then proceed to bomb the sh*t out of Afghanistan - often killing civilians - all the while keeping that I'm so lovable smile on his face.

Or, he should have told you how wonderful he was for signing the Paris Climate Agreement, yet - per Naomi Klein and others - it was a nonsense agreement (i.e., nothing binding, soft commitments, etc.). And then on his watch of 8 yrs, USA fracking production ramps up to the point of the USA becoming a net exporter of fossil fuels. How green is that?

And these things compare how to your example? You have lost your compass as well.

But thank you for proving my point.

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Post by Shocka1 »

negamax wrote: post #237
mduggles wrote: post #66

I'm horrified by so many of the comments here that seem to lack even the most basic of human decency. Allow me to fill people in for those who have never uprooted your life and moved across the world for a job. It is a massive commitment on the part of the employee, where you sell the majority of your earthly possessions, property, cars, etc. Then you go through an immigration process which even if its handled by FAA…

As someone who immigrated to West. I was initially shocked by people's attitude. At times I was outright told that you are * Filling diversity quota * Cheaper * Economic migrant The worst part about this is that I was working doubly hard, paying insane taxes while paying insane rents. But eventually I realized people saying these things are just looking for their psychological safety. Of course such people are a mino…

This is bizarre to me that people would actually say this to you. Anecdotally, I've worked for some pretty well known tech companies and have never heard anyone talk this way openly. I never worked in Silicon Valley or SF, but these corporations I worked for regularly hired Indian and Eastern European developers because they were great developers... Some of my best mentors immigrated from these areas.

If you are hearing this kind of talk regularly, I think it's time to change who you work with as this doesn't seem right or normal to me.

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Post by chiefalchemist »

newsclues wrote: post #353
sofixa wrote: post #265

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> But I don't understand the blind dedication to hate, especially when other politicians and leaders pull similar shenanigans and then there's crickets Do feel free to share examples of other politicians mocking disabled people, or bragging about sexual assault, or trying a coup or any of the millions of transgressions of trump and not facing any criticism.

Mocking disabled people is bad. Bragging about sexual assault is horrific. But let's talk about the stuff politicians do that is truly wrong and evil, like waging wars that kill people? Let's talk about the War on Terror and how many people died. Remember that the media and government sold the American people a bunch of lies to sell these wars. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/ir... 100,000+…

That's my point. His conduct is bad. It deserves to be called out. But that's no excuse to forgive loads of things just because:

- the media doesn't make an issue out of it

- it's been normalized

The irony is, the loud broken-compass hypocrites are part of the problem. They're not speaking truth to the prevailing powers. Power who have set the stage for Trump and his ilk. Don is a symptom. It's foolish to obsess over a symptom while the root causes get a free pass.

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Post by chiefalchemist »

FieryTransition wrote: post #390
newsclues wrote: post #353

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Mocking disabled people is bad. Bragging about sexual assault is horrific. But let's talk about the stuff politicians do that is truly wrong and evil, like waging wars that kill people? Let's talk about the War on Terror and how many people died. Remember that the media and government sold the American people a bunch of lies to sell these wars. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/ir... 100,000+…

yeah, one of the real big issues are the government enabling alot of these wars and the dependency of a large part of the economy on the military-industrial complex, the morals thereof and the corruptional influence of the entities which want to further gain through military-industrial means, or justify it as as necessary at this point wrt. the economy.

Meanwhile, the focus is on anything but the MIC. The MIC loves distractions. Trump Hating being one of their faves.

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Post by rejectfinite »

Tao3300 wrote: post #395
rejectfinite wrote: post #276

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And so many people are okay coming into another country and wage dump because "its their right" to move halfway across the world to work in the USA or EU. See stuff like: https://www.thelocal.se/20070523/7387/ You can't have it both ways. ---- I guess this is just CBS being racist :) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-h-1b-visas-have-been-abused ... "But this week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reports that…

I don't know about you, but that's pretty much how/why my ancestors got here.

Okay, cool story? Doesn't say anything, really.

I have super super super distant relatives in the USA due to the Swedish migration 200 years ago. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Swedish_emigration_to_the_United...

But that was a different time, with different rules, with a different market.

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Post by Aeolun »

Tao3300 wrote: post #408
Aeolun wrote: post #273

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You can skimp on the extras, but you cannot skimp on the basics. It’s their fault for hiring him after all. Not his fault for coming to the US and trusting them.

Canada is not the US

Yes. Hence why I expect him to get at least the basics of the deal. Obviously he’s not getting any extra money for years worked.

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Post by scrollaway »

peteradio wrote: post #320
scrollaway wrote: post #224

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Empathy isn’t the core principle of getting vaccinated. It’s just one of the reasons; and you cannot claim to be empathetic if you refuse to do it out of something that isn’t medical exemption. The actual reasons are self preservation and slowing down a pandemic. And when people don’t care about the latter, that is an easy tell that yeah they have zero empathy.

In order to guard against a future of mandated experimental treatments I refused to get vaccinated. I did this out of empathy for my children.

"Empathy for my children [and nobody else's]" is a good round-about way of saying "for entirely selfish reasons".

Especially since your actions do absolutely nothing to advance that goal you likely just made up now. If the governments have learned anything, it's that mandates need to be quicker and stronger, with much more stringent penalties for the dodgers.

So yeah... thanks for nothing.

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