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Re:Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own... by unionpivo on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:46AM (#25746772)
I am sorry, but I am calling bullshit on that.

People are not working at Facebook because they don't have other options.

This is not some last resort, minimum wage, no other options work. People spend weeks or months preparing for interview and then some of them move to the other end of country to work there. In fact it's pain in the ass to get job there, so people there really want to be there, and jump through hoops to get there.

They are plenty other related job's that will keep your family fed and clothed. People are not working at Facebook because they don't have other options.

There are plenty of people on this planet that have hard time putting food on the table and clothes on their children, equating them with Facebook employs that make 150k+ is just wrong

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Re:Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own... by chrisseaton on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:51AM (#25746822)
> People spend weeks or months preparing for interview and then some of them move to the other end of country to work there.

Right, so that's what it takes to get a tech job. And if you can't do that anymore (maybe you're a carer for example), you'll struggle to get a new job.

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Re:Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own... by unionpivo on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:02AM (#25746984)
> Right, so that's what it takes to get a tech job. And if you can't do that anymore (maybe you're a carer for example), you'll struggle to get a new job.

No that's what it takes to get one of the best paying tech jobs on the planet. If you lower your criteria there are plenty of other tech jobs that demand less, and compensate less.

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Re:Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own... by yawnxyz on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:03AM (#25746991)
that's because Facebook is still a very sought-after tech job... I'm in Atlanta and there's tech jobs out the wazoo (Delta, Home Depot, IHG, Turner, etc. etc.) and then there's new tech companies like Calendly, MailChimp, SalesLoft etc. etc. — all of which are easier to score a job AND don't carry the scarlet letter type of branding
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