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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by blitzar on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:11AM (#33529440)
They used a thanos style random number generator. If the day in your DOB is an odd number you were fired.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by anomaly_ on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:56AM (#33529734)
Well, I guess you don't want unlucky people working for you!
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by blitzar on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:26AM (#33529989)
It is on the listicle of things to make you highly successful.

- Wake up at 4am every day.

- Only hire lucky people (they get to work for you that instantly makes them one of the lucky ones right!?)

- Fire the unlucky people or the people having a bad day (its a pretty bad and/or unlucky day when you get fired, if they had any luck at all you wouldnt have thought of their name when you decided to fire someone)

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by misnome on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:48AM (#33530218)
> - Fire the unlucky people

The perfect way to select for luck! Fire people randomly, therefore you will on average only have lucky people working for you! Genius!

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta by mrjin on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:28AM (#33530594)
I don't think they really care who get fired. To those executives in large organizations, individual contributors are no more than a number. As long as they can make the numbers they do care looking better, no one really matters much.
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