Meta and Google are cutting staff

Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by piva00 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:25PM (#32931708)

No worries! I apologise for misrepresenting it as "extremely negative", still with the meaning of "pretty bad" I believe it's a specially disgusting type of language, why use positive-sounding jargon for "underperforming"? What's wrong with using "underperfoming" if that's what "meets most" means?

I despise this, the dissonance between a positivity-sounding "meets most" with the actual meaning being "pretty bad" is what I expect from the North Korean regime, or Russia. It's a disgusting type of newspeak/corporatespeak which, admittedly irrationally, boils my blood.

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Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff by bin_bash on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:06PM (#32932186)

There actually is a reason (though you might not like it). The internal docs are pretty open about this, I think I can do a decent job capturing the idea:

The idea is they consider themselves to have a very high bar (which I think is largely accurate). They say you “meet most expectations” which means you hit the marks on all but 1 or 2 criteria. It’s not that you’re not good at your job, it’s that that’s not good enough for them.

Of course anyone receiving a MM is having a very shitty day despite that. They could use more direct language but I’m not sure it would have any practical difference.

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