Doubling down on the layoff lie, and increasing executive pay 200%
Performance evaluations of laid off folks further challenge the performance-based layoff lie
More and more performance reviews from the folks who have been laid off in recent weeks have been popping up in news articles, on LinkedIn, and Reddit. There’s a whole lot of exceeding expectations the staffers did just prior to being told they were part of the performance-based layoffs. I culled together some of these, and made a video update of my last blog post on the layoffs. Please do check it out and subscribe to my channel.
Resources
Integrity Institute -- II is a non-profit with >500 current and former trust and safety in tech experts who come from 40+ different platforms. We have regular community events, a fair number of people who have gone through layoffs (and likely were laid off recently) who can provide support and share resources, and work on some really important projects related to building a safer internet.
All Tech is Human is another group dedicated to creating community for the folks building new tech responsibly. They also maintain a job board that may be easier to navigate than some of the giant job platforms.
Alice Hunsberger’s website links to a number of job boards related to trust & safety, AI, and fraud. She also shares a Career Planning Template that may be useful for folks figuring out what they want to do next, and how best to prepare for that.
Katie Harbath’s “How I mapped out my post-Facebook journey.”
Ex-Meta Employees (Layoffs) private group on Facebook
Ex Meta XFN FYI on LinkedIn
Me. I went through this a couple years ago, applied for and interviewed for lots of jobs, and eventually came out the other side working on stuff I care about. Feel free to DM or email me, and I’ll do my best to help.
What I’m reading
Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs -- Jonathan Vanian, NBC News
Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives’ salaries as it trims stock awards for employees -- Lloyd Lee & Jyoti Mann, Business Insider
What happens when a company’s ‘low performers’ speak up -- Jamie Heller, Business Insider
Big Tech data center buildouts have led to $5.4 billion in public health costs -- Cristina Criddle & Stephanie Stacey, Ars Technica
California will launch ‘first-in-the-nation’ digital democracy effort to help improve public engagement -- Chelsea Hylton, CBS News
Meta defends using pirated material, claims it’s legal if you don’t seed content -- Sayem Ahmed, Tom’s Hardware
Instagram tests out new comment feature: ‘Bullying is back’ -- Brooke Kato, New York Post
X (Twitter) increases subscription price 82% -- Sean Burch, The Wrap
Zuckerberg philanthropy ends DEI programs -- Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill
YouTube by the numbers: Uncovering YouTube’s ghost town of billions of unwatched, ignored videos -- Zo Ahmed, TechSpot
America hates Mark Zuckerberg -- Matthew Gault, Gizmodo
How Americans view Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg -- Pew Research
OpenAI removes certain content warnings from ChatGPT -- Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch
Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap--what that means for the industry -- Michael Nunez, VentureBeat
Larry Ellison wants to put all America’s data, including people’s DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study -- Brandon Vigliarolo, The Register
Instagram tests a ‘dislike’ button for comments -- Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch
Can Meta still make the metaverse? -- David Pierce, The Verge
Meta’s Awful ‘Horizon Worlds’ ad helps explain $70 billion metaverse loss -- Paul Tassi, Forbes