This sucks, and the fact "it was bound to happen" (which is incorrect, it's not a law of nature) does not absolve Meta.
Nobody was talking about your personal struggle so now nobody should be allowed to talk about anyone else's? I'll never understand that weird crab bucket mentality. You somehow manage to start from "These things have happened quietly in the background all the time in the industry" and instead of ending up at "I'm so glad people are talking about this more because I've been through it and it sucks and we should find some way to make these horrible things happen less often!" you instead opt for "Who cares about this issue! Things sucked for me once and nobody said anything about it so now it's annoying when the media calls attention to anyone else who is struggling!"
That's just weird.
It's a good thing when corporations who treat their employees like shit get called out for their behavior. It's bad that they haven't always been called out for it in the past, but that doesn't mean that no one should be doing it now.
I suppose we can ask ourselves why this case managed to get the media's attention...
I suspect that this story may have gotten more people's attention because facebook/meta is a big company with lots of brand recognition, facebook/meta has a ton of money and could easily afford to treat their employees better, and because they really screwed this guy over and his situation is a worse version of what a lot of people are going through after recent layoffs so perhaps business insider thought this story would resonate with a lot of workers.
Really no matter what the reason is for this story getting media attention it's a good thing that people are talking about it now! Hopefully sharing these stories and talking about these issues will bring attention to the problems outside of FAANG as well.
I never understood people who think like that. It's no ok and people shouldn't feel ok about it
You're right. This behavior by a company should be criticized regardless of whether or not they're large or famous.
...Though it appears that you don't think any such stories should exist?
Where did you get that idea from?
That being said, its a little different for this guy cause
a) as the parent commenter mentioned, the guy uprooted his life and moved to a new country and laid off almost instantaneously.
b) I don't think he asked the press to write a story on him, he wrote a LinkedIn post
c) this isn't the Time magazine doing a puff piece for somebody, it's just some person from Business Insider who saw a viral post on LinkedIn and wrote a story about it.
Perhaps you are correct. Perhaps the solution to these heartless layoffs is to put a spotlight on each and every one of them in order to shame and embarrass the executives at all companies.
But I suspect many people see instead deflection — you are absolving Meta's management because The Media dropped the ball a long time ago.
(This is coming from a woman who grew up in a Muslim country and sees women around her complain about video game representation lol)
Why do you defend megacorps while you've been victim of the exact same shitty behaviour in the past ? Stockholm syndrome ?
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[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-mes...
Unless it changed in the last few years, Canadian work permits allow you to continue to reside in the country for the duration of their validity, even if you lose your employment.
The vast majority of them are tied to an employer though, so even if you find another job, you need to go through the process again, which takes quite a lot of time.
I understand there must be some rationale behind this, but from an outside viewpoint it's quite bizarre. The incentives are exactly opposite of what one would expect (either move out or become productive member of the society as easily as possible).
The only thing they care about regarding work permits is wether the job the immigrant will occupy could be filled by a Canadian citizen.
What the employer can be judged on in such situation is how they handle it and, indeed, how empathic and helpful their are, but that's a different issue.
Obviously not.
If they've just been hired it means that they are the least trained and least operational, and in any case that has no bearing on the continued existence of the role they were hired for.
Yes, they are immediately less operational than a long term mediocre employee, but their potential is much higher on average.
I'm assuming that it wasn't merely that entire roles were laid off, but something like some percentage of given roles were laid off.
If answer is yes to any of the above questions, then yeah Meta is at fault. The person deserves atleast a contractual position till he is able to move back to India or find a job in Canada. Alternatively, he can be compensated to account for the complete disruption of his life. People in India liquidate assets to move abroad. This may be an absolute life changing and costly decision for him and his family.
Setting up situation where "something like this was bound to happen" is FB fault, and makes it worse rather than absolving them.