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This is your regular reminder that tech is essentially a fiefdom. Just because you aren't a serf doesn't mean you aren't a peasant.
This is reminder only for those who thought berating employer, questioning policies above their remit all while keeping employment at that pure evil employer is just how the world works.
The noteworthy part here is that low performers won't be put on a PIP (which happens every year at this time). Come February the bottom 5% of the list will be given a severance and shown the door.
I'd like to see 5% of engineering managers get cut every year, since they're either selecting for, or I suspect creating, disengaged employees.
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Exactly, and expecting every position needs to be clubbed together as left or right wing is also a big issue. eg I am politically liberal on most of the issues, but if I mention one thing for which I am not on their camp I suddenly become far right.
Really kinda depends on what that one thing is though don't you think.
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I know Zuck wasn't super popular on HN, but until these recent events, I saw him as someone generally reasonable and pragmatic. I can understand that he had to compromise with Trump in order to protect his wealth and company. But it's clearly more than that. I wonder, does he even have values on his owns? will he reinstate the tampons if democrats win in 4 years? My guess is that he's slowing been adhering to the Tru…
I think once he started working out and getting strong, he looked less like an android and more like a human male. His politics may have shifted as a result of building muscle: * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918... * https://hbr.org/2013/07/mens-arm-strength-affects-thei * https://www.psypost.org/strong-men-come-across-as-more-conse...
So in the first two weeks of the year Zuck has announced: - Replacing their global policy chief with the company's highest ranking Republican. - Appointing Dana White to the company's board. - Changing content policies to be aligned with the incoming administration. - Elimination of DEI programs in hiring. - Removing tampons from men's restrooms. - Defending all this in a 3 hour Joe Rogan interview. Ranting about the…
Related: Meta to move content moderators to Texas as part of plan to end fact-checking program https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/07/texas-meta-content-m...
It seems Zuck is turning into Elon. What's next? closing the European offices? forcing people to return to the office? relocating HQ to Texas?
Everyone who is smart see's which way the winds are blowing and it isn't in the direction of "more liberal". The US is looking at a cultural reset back into the mid to mid-late 20th century.
1930-1980 were marked by much higher levels of taxation and wealth redistribution than we have today.
1980-Present are the neo-liberal experiment resulting in massive income inequality.
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You mean the one he took "personal responsibility" for, while laying off >10000 people and conveniently still having a job for himself?
"But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure." ~GB
If you are a Meta employee and got sizable RSU grants around 2022-23 when the stock price was 1/5 what it is now, you should probably start packing your bags. Whatever your performance is, there's zero chance it can justify those upcoming paychecks.
Meta makes an incredible amount of money. Laying off employees who are otherwise doing fine just because their compensation is a bit higher than you thought would be stupid and petty.
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I know Zuck wasn't super popular on HN, but until these recent events, I saw him as someone generally reasonable and pragmatic. I can understand that he had to compromise with Trump in order to protect his wealth and company. But it's clearly more than that. I wonder, does he even have values on his owns? will he reinstate the tampons if democrats win in 4 years? My guess is that he's slowing been adhering to the Tru…
I think once he started working out and getting strong, he looked less like an android and more like a human male. His politics may have shifted as a result of building muscle: * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918... * https://hbr.org/2013/07/mens-arm-strength-affects-thei * https://www.psypost.org/strong-men-come-across-as-more-conse...