Being on a slack channel for victims of another big tech company’s layoffs, I can say for certain that Meta is not the only one laying off a suspiciously large number of people during maternity leave.
Name and shame. Also, just because we’re catching one and not catching all of them, doesn’t mean that we can’t go after this one. Hopefully, the people you’re talking about will go after their employers too.
The tech sector has been heavily inoculated against any kind of labor solidarity for my entire life. At some point, you can’t just be a victim. You’ve got to fight back. And I don’t know if the people getting sucked into and shat out of Silicon Valley year to year have the gumption to do it. Seems like they’ll line right back up at Facebook the moment Zuck wants to hire them again, under even worse terms, salaries, and working conditions than when they were kicked out.
The reason is similar to why the hiring process is so stupid. You can’t just flash a degree and get a job. You have to navigate the hazing ritual because engineers are cocky bastards. That cockiness means they think their intelligence alone is all they need in order to secure their career.
Being on a slack channel for victims of another big tech company’s layoffs, I can say for certain that Meta is not the only one laying off a suspiciously large number of people during maternity leave.
For us it was interesting how we’re all over 40.
Name and shame. Also, just because we’re catching one and not catching all of them, doesn’t mean that we can’t go after this one. Hopefully, the people you’re talking about will go after their employers too.
It’s a small enough community that I’d prefer to not out myself.
My only point was that they’re probably all doing it. Not that any or all of them shouldn’t face consequences.
Also like one of the other comments said, AI for this seems stupid.
The tech sector has been heavily inoculated against any kind of labor solidarity for my entire life. At some point, you can’t just be a victim. You’ve got to fight back. And I don’t know if the people getting sucked into and shat out of Silicon Valley year to year have the gumption to do it. Seems like they’ll line right back up at Facebook the moment Zuck wants to hire them again, under even worse terms, salaries, and working conditions than when they were kicked out.
The reason is similar to why the hiring process is so stupid. You can’t just flash a degree and get a job. You have to navigate the hazing ritual because engineers are cocky bastards. That cockiness means they think their intelligence alone is all they need in order to secure their career.