Can't agree. A signed contract is a promise. Reneging on your promise says only bad things about you.
Meta's management famously lacks character. Please don't use them as a baseline for right and wrong.
Meta's management famously lacks character. Please don't use them as a baseline for right and wrong.
Yes, it's poor form and rightfully burns a bridge, but it's not a contract. Let's not expect people to treat employers any better than employers treat people.
Most contracts in the tech industry are at-will in both directions with usually only 2 or 4 weeks notice (if any).
As automatons, corporations cannot have morals, because they simply follow their programming. You, a flesh and blood human, should feel no obligation to a corporation for any actions they take, for the same reason you don't write letters to a bollard thanking it for stopping a car that might have hit you.
When I say corporations have motives, that is shorthand for “the human leadership of this company has motives which control their decision making and cause them to make decisions which point the corporation in a certain direction”