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Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by AbstractH24 »

paxys wrote: post #217

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…

> Is this history's most bizarre midlife crisis? What is going on with this man?

His whole era of big name tech founders seems to be going through it.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by AbstractH24 »

blsapologist42 wrote: post #203
nateglims wrote: post #160

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In terms of a cultural moment it feels like the 80s. Millions of his voters weren’t ideological conservatives but didn’t fully disagree and like the strength Reagan projected after the turmoil of the mid 60s through the 70s. They abandoned the movement during bush senior and the Clinton years.

The 80s were a reaction to the "liberal" 70s. It's just the natural cycle of history, the majority of people are in the center so when culture shifts too far to one side they start pushing it back.

Sounds like the increase in the amount of information people have access to and the speed of the news cycle, the speed at which the pendulum swings may just be accelerating.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by AbstractH24 »

danny_codes wrote: post #317
voidfunc wrote: post #46

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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.

What period are you referring to? 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.

When is your baseline for when equality was ideal?

Was the 19th century a time of utopian equality?

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by xigency »

qwe----3 wrote: post #336
xigency wrote: post #309

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This is somehow better than exploring ways to improve your existing employees' performance?

There are people ready to be hired that aren't checked out

Sure. This is a great model to adopt if you believe corporations exist to destroy people.

If a construction site was sending formerly qualified people away no longer able to work we would definitely investigate their practices. Tech deserves the same scrutiny.

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Post by sumedh »

leidenfrost wrote: post #258
bee_rider wrote: post #204

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I think most people in the US are, on some practical level, actual liberals. We can’t see it in the way a fish doesn’t see water. But I think mostly people think of themselves as accepting of others (while not wanting their own freedom of association impinged on). I think a lot of political disagreement shows up where liberal principles collide, like two people’s freedom of expression bumping into each other. Then it…

If people on the US were really liberal (in the original "capitalism of the free" sense), racism wouldn't even be an issue. People wouldn't care so much about race, and your genetics would be more as a "fun fact" rather than some central piece of your identity. Also, they wouldn't care about atheists so much. Liberals may not be atheists themselves but they would be very detached from religion and "who whorships who"…

> If people on the US were really liberal (in the original "capitalism of the free" sense), racism wouldn't even be an issue.

These labels dont matter when your jobs are going away though.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by deciduously »

riffic wrote: post #331
siva7 wrote: post #249

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Let's not glorify this people and state what it is: toxic behavior and abuse.

it was cute, perhaps, in Glengarry Glen Ross (coffee is for closers!), it's abhorrent when seeing it used here.

It wasn't cute there, either, it was explicitly a device to stage the desperation that catalyzed the rest of the plot.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

ralfd wrote: post #156
lacker wrote: post #73

When I was an engineering manager there, engineering leadership described performance reviews as, in a large well run engineering organization, you'll probably be firing 5-10% of your employees every year for low performance. (Well, "non regrettable attrition", which includes people who quit when they get pipped.) Lower than 5% at scale would be a red flag, not necessarily wrong, you don't want to "stack rank" with a…

I am lukewarm about unions, but if that shit would be the new work norm I would go hard left. Wouldn’t be every coworker a competitor? How do you plan your life or start a family if you are every year 10% likely of being fired or backstabbed?

Not that I think firing 5% makes any sense but unions are a far worse evil, had to walk past almost 20 people in a tiny train station pretending to be ticket inspectors when the gate for ticket checks is automated and within view of them all so it's a completely fake job but they can't fire them so they have them do this "job" till they retire on a excellent pension which to make matters worse along with their salary are negotiated via the threat of striking crippling the capitals transport network.

If 5% is every coworker is a competitor, unions are your coworker doesn't even have to deliver any value at all yet is treated the same as you.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by thebigspacefuck »

xigency wrote: post #355
qwe----3 wrote: post #336

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There are people ready to be hired that aren't checked out

Sure. This is a great model to adopt if you believe corporations exist to destroy people. If a construction site was sending formerly qualified people away no longer able to work we would definitely investigate their practices. Tech deserves the same scrutiny.

I don't think people are getting "destroyed", they are just bored and want to find something else, but there are factors keeping them in the same place. Interviewing is hard, they may have a lot of stock vesting, the economy is bad, or their life situation makes it inconvenient, etc.

Re: Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'

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Post by nyarlathotep_ »

dspillett wrote: post #349
nyarlathotep_ wrote: post #302

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> being all-American where possible How much of Meta's staff is H1B?

I should have been a bit more specific: as all-GOP-American as possible. Imported workers are just fine, even though that is not something you'd derive from many a campaign speech, particularly for specialist workers as vaguely defined by the H1B system which have an indirect benefit of adding a bit of brain-drain friction to potentially competing companies in other economies, as well as shoring up the effect of temp…

> Imported workers are just fine, even though that is not something you'd derive from many a campaign speech, particularly for specialist workers as vaguely defined by the H1B system which have an indirect benefit of adding a bit of brain-drain friction to potentially competing companies in other economies, as well as shoring up the effect of temporary local skills deficiencies.

I and others did interpret this, and recalled what they said about that matter.

Wasn't part of the campaign directly but Trump and Elon both made this very apparent.

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