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When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices

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Re: When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices

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Post by whoevercares »

cwmma wrote: post #3
citrablue wrote: post #2

This article appears to have some fundamental misunderstandings. Their description of the review system is not stack ranking, in which employees are ranked in a hierarchy and the lowest on the totem are fired. Instead, the "meets/exceeds" scale has been pretty standard wherever I've worked. Further, it seems that FB HR asked the source of this article to not speak to the press about an internal event that involved a…

a meets/exceeds scale becomes stack ranking when the proportion of different ranks is capped so that even if everybody on a team did well, some would have to be given the lowest ranking

“Meets most” is just the politically correct version of PIP or “you should look for other jobs now”

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Post by bigpumpkin »

jonnybgood wrote: post #4

Is his suicide linked to some kind of maltreatment of Chinese employees at Facebook? The article doesn't make that clear.

Less for being Chinese and more for being an employee on a visa, which leaves them with fewer options.

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Post by yorwba »

jonnybgood wrote: post #4

Is his suicide linked to some kind of maltreatment of Chinese employees at Facebook? The article doesn't make that clear.

PingWest seems to be targeting the intersection of China and tech news, so emphasizing the nationality shows that the topic is relevant to their audience. Additionally, they mention that working under OPT or an H-1B visa increases the pressure, so Chinese expats are more likely to be stressed.

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Post by yorwba »

whoevercares wrote: post #10

This incident has gone wild on popular overseas Chinese forums criticizing the double standards and mistreatments. It’ll be interesting and eye opening if someone could translate the information shared there.

Since you seem to be active in those forums yourself, maybe you could do the translating?

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Post by AFascistWorld »

jonnybgood wrote: post #4

Is his suicide linked to some kind of maltreatment of Chinese employees at Facebook? The article doesn't make that clear.

There's no formal media report on this, the stories that hit Chinese internet headlines are anecdotal and seem quite sensationalized.

The stories alledge that he argued with his Indian boss (which commonly features in all kinds of Chinese stories about Sillicon Valley tech companies), was denied request to change group, an emergency project was assigned to him, attempts to extend the dealine failed, the fear of being fired and family visas revoked drove him to that tragedy.

The story went viral in China, played on his past of being local National Exam champion from modest upbringing, and the popular notion of Chinese being coolies in SV and widely discriminated in the US.

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Post by magashna »

citrablue wrote: post #2

This article appears to have some fundamental misunderstandings. Their description of the review system is not stack ranking, in which employees are ranked in a hierarchy and the lowest on the totem are fired. Instead, the "meets/exceeds" scale has been pretty standard wherever I've worked. Further, it seems that FB HR asked the source of this article to not speak to the press about an internal event that involved a…

Why should you take the companies advice to stay quiet when you believe they're the ones who were at fault?

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Post by CydeWeys »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #16

> to hold a vigil for a Facebook employee who took his own life after allegedly [being] bullied in the company and suffering extremely excessive work pressure > Most Attendees wore black Huh. Why not white?

Because black is the color associated with funerals/death in the western world??
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