Dozens of fired Meta employees are writing 'badge posts' on social media

https://www.businessinsider.com/fired-meta-employees-are-writing-badge-posts-on-social-media-2022-11

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autotune2• 4 years ago

daddy Zuck

After reading this phrase I think I need to take a long vacation from reading most major news sites until like 2024 or so when this all blows over.

ssttoo• 4 years ago

I was at FB for 9+ years till 2020. Never heard that expression, ever.

autotune2• 4 years ago

If I was a FB employee and heard that from anyone I would probably quit on the spot.

bsan3• 4 years ago

All these people were happy to facilitate the destruction of society and spread fake news. I have no sympathy.

yumraj• 4 years ago

Unfortunately some of these posts landed on my LinkedIn timeline so read a few.

I’m really not sure what these people are trying to achieve.

Appeal to FB that they love it so much that pretty please rehire them?

Appeal to others to hire them, well there are much better ways to write those notes.

Personally, and maybe this is my bias against FB speaking, but if a person is saying that their entire worth was FB and FB this and that, and how lucky they were to be at FB, well it doesn’t give me much confidence in the abilities of a person.

On top of that, there’s another set of people offering intros and mock interviews and such to strangers. Great for getting some likes, but not sure how much they will really help if say 100s/1000s of people were to ping them suddenly.

In my opinion, these things work best quietly. Reach out on 1:1 basis to people you know and expand network. Don’t sob in public.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh• 4 years ago

It strikes me as a naturally human and totally understandable thing to do.

This seems like their way of reclaiming some agency over what happened to them, as well as trying to put a brave face on things. Also it probably helps them (re)connect with some sense of community — the article mentions they'd usually post these things on their internal forum, but they were ripped away from that community too quickly.

Some might even say it's a classy move — take a step back and reflect on the good parts, hand out some "thank you"s, etc.

I never got into the whole "posting on LinkedIn" thing — and I probably still wouldn't in this situation — but I think it is easy enough to empathize and see why someone might. These are weird and rough economic times, and they're just doing their best to stay afloat. Same as you or me.

4wsn2• 4 years ago

In my opinion, these things work best quietly. Reach out on 1:1 basis to people you know and expand network. Don’t sob in public.

I concur but I noticed recently that with a lot of younger folks, it seems like a cultural shift.

Maybe encouraged is a strong word, but at the very least it's far more acceptable to make these things public than, say a decade or two ago.

I can't say it's wrong, per se, because I see the reasoning behind it. But there's a cultural clash.

I haven't hired anyone in a while, but if I had to posts like these would definitely result in a hard pass, no matter their skills.

Eldt• 4 years ago

As a member of the younger generation, I would give you a hard pass for holding such a sentiment.

lupire• 4 years ago

It's networking for people who need jobs, in the style of the current trend.

disgruntledphd2• 4 years ago

Personally, I agree with you. That being said, these posts originally appeared on consumer Facebook (but only visible to FB employees) and as such it was also about saying goodbye to friends you'd worked with. The sappiness just carried over to Workplace, and now LinkedIn apparently.

toast0• 4 years ago

I’m really not sure what these people are trying to achieve.

It's a cultutal rite of passage when leaving FB. When you leave voluntarily, it's posted on the FB internal workspace? thing and it serves as a way to let people know you've left and maybe leave a hot take on your way out or just leave your contact info for others and maybe thank people who made working in the swamp a little easier. Personally, when I left, I included a snarky email address and purposefully used an older badge with specific companies instead of the then current 'one company' branded badges. I've since started working with someone who recognized my domain from the badge post, as they had been working at FB around the same time, but didn't work with me then.

Since it's not possible for the people who were laid off to do it internally, some people are choosing to do it in public instead. And they probably didn't adjust the message to address the public really.

thot_experiment4• 4 years ago

Weird to see meta employees humanized in this way. They all made the choice to throw their lot in with zuck, and they continued to make that choice every day they showed up for work.

It's hard to feel sympathy, everyone there can get a lower paying job that is beneficial to society and they choose not to. That's on them. Nobody at meta lacks other options.

bsaul2• 4 years ago

I have no sympathy for facebook as a company, but i find it hard to believe that someone would find it weird to have human express human feelings upon being fired. They're not "humanized", they're humans.

thot_experiment4• 4 years ago

Right, but it's sort of like seeing, I dunno, a documentary about some human facet of a murderous dictatorial regime. In a way it's mortifying to be viscerally reminded that humans capable of being hurt are casually inflicting so much harm on humanity. That they're completely insulated from the second and third order effects of their work. Just following orders without thought.

c7b• 4 years ago

because they lost access to systems after learning they were laid off, they switched to LinkedIn instead to say farewell

LinkedIn? What sort of verdict on Facebook is that?

type0• 4 years ago

Do they think they'll get a job at LinkedIn?

cr4nberry• 4 years ago

Say what you will about social media, Meta, or daddy Zuck himself, but I am SO very grateful for everything this Company has done for me - it's hardly an exaggeration to say that Meta saved my life.

this is the cringiest one I've heard so far. No wonder it came from someone in middle management

Dozens of fired Meta employees are writing 'badge posts' on social media

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