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A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there right now (sfstandard.com)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How are you feeling about that now?

I feel torn. Working here is not easy. From the outside, there’s massive negative sentiment, and there’s certainly something there. But the pain of working here is not very well understood. It’s this grand calculus of what it costs to live in the Bay Area and what personal sacrifices you are willing to make and what you’re willing to do for money. On the one hand, I feel massively privileged and lucky to work at a place like this. On the other hand, I’m like, where is my line?

Christ.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

I really want to virtue signal while I actively cooperate to make the world a shittier place for money.

Is what I read

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, I'm helping usher in the end of democracy in America and pushing for the same elsewhere, but what am I supposed to do, move out of this specific city?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I have no sympathy.

I'd rather take a cleaning job or something than work for meta.

I once got an offer to work for one of those large mobile gambling app companies as a developer. Probably big money in there too.

I declined and continued to be out of a job for 9 more months, and I still feel like I did the right thing. I wouldn't have had any self-respect working there.