Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as This Week

Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by RestlessMind on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:29PM (#35060748)

Thanks for answering the question honestly. Looking at that list, I can see only LinkedIn / Databricks / Box / Cruise / Waymo as qualifying for "not making the world shittier" criteria. But quitting Meta to go work for another variant of social media like Roblox / Bytedance / Pinterest? Or Airbnb / Uber / Lyft / Instacart with lots of negative externalities by exploiting labor arbitrage? That doesn't really make any sense.

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by Ancalagon on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:37PM (#35060855)

Sure, but that does answer your original ask. There are options, especially if you're willing to work for just slightly less (or in some cases you can still get a raise by switching) to work at a company that pays well and makes a more positive impact on the world.

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by RestlessMind on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:31AM (#35065927)

> especially if you're willing to work for just slightly less

Well, in that entire list, following are the companies who don't make the world shittier: LinkedIn / Stripe / Databricks / Box / Cruise. (I will omit Waymo because its parent is Alphabet, which fails shittiness criteria).

Box stock is flat since 2015. Databricks / Stripe are private so no liquidity. So only LinkedIn qualifies for "slightly less pay but not shittier world". Though I agree that there is an option if someone wants.

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by Ancalagon on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @06:38PM (#35076287)

I mean FB stock is negative if you count people who joined in the last year...Even flat is better than that

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by RestlessMind on Saturday March 11, 2023 @07:04PM (#35114294)

Let's compare Apples to Apples? I was citing Box stock since 2015. FB is more than double its 2015 price.

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