Mark Zuckerberg explains why so many tech companies are doing layoffs right now::Meta’s CEO said tech execs realized doing tough layoffs didn’t end their companies — and there can be benefits to being leaner.
It’s money, isn’t it?
Thank you for posting tl;dr :)
Crocodile tears. Fuck billionaires telling us why layoffs happen. Don’t believe anything they say.
“Mark Zuckerberg has a theory” oh great, he’s trying very hard to figure out why the CEO of Meta decided to do layoffs? That’s great.
Is it because they’re money-grubbing wankers?
It’s because they’re money-grubbing wankers, isn’t it?
“Benefits of being leaner” sounds a lot better to investors, than “we bet the farm on virtual reality having some undiscovered practical use, and we haven’t been able to find one”.
“It was obviously really tough, we parted with a lot of talented people we cared about" - Mark Zuckerberg
“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html
This asshole is such a sociopath. He just did an all hands last year where he straight up told his employees that some of them don’t belong there, and then they did the layoffs. He doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.
Why have 2 people do 2 jobs, when you can have 1 frightened employee do 2 jobs or maybe more.
Coming soon: AI, trying to do 10 jobs terribly for nothing!
That’s great, Mark, but what happens when you’ve systematically broken the trust and social contracts between yourself and us normal people so consistently and for so long that we all just decide to come for you with hatchets and pitchforks and AR-15s (because this is indeed America)? Is that the accelerationist future you want?
He’s building a bunker… So yes, yes it is what he wants. He thinks he can successfully hide from it.
Be that as it may, he has to be lucky and survive, every time, for the rest of his life. Some random disgruntled vigilante only needs to get lucky once.
Thanks, Zuck, we were all waiting with bated breath for your statement.
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*fewer
Countable things are fewer.
If I have 50 grams of water and pour 20 grams out. Do I have less water or fewer water?
Less water, fewer grams of water.
So it’s just semantics?
Then they have less workforce? I’m not sure that is correct but I am curious what the correct phrasing is if not.
Yep - less workforce (because workforce is a singular object) but fewer workers (because the “number of workers” is a countable object)
These companies took the benefits and cheap loans to make record profits during the pandemic, and now that the party is over are dumping it on us and the system. They should never have been allowed in the first place and I hope they end up in court over this clear abuse of the system
Don’t need to hear his excuse, the answer is pretty obvious. Companies are really fucking stupid. They saw an increase in demand during COVID and assumed that, rather than being a temporary blip due to lockdowns, this was a permanent change. And so they drastically over-hired during that period, without thought for how it might end up affecting people down the line when they inevitably have to lay them off.
They never assumed any such thing.
The bean counters know things wax and wane. They hired when the needed the staff, they layoff when it makes financial sense to do so.
The end.
And when they have a good year and do a bunch of hiring, they say to shareholders “look at us growing! We hired 1000 extra people, so our business is booming!”
And when it slows down “we made difficult decisions but are now more efficient than ever! We benefited from the previous growth and now we can run lean again” and apparently shareholders eat that shit up.
I know the saying about not attributing to malice what can be attributed to stupidity… but I think we can say pretty confidently that it’s not incompetence, it’s deliberate and disgusting
Yes they did make the assumption that it would be permanent, they’ve literally admitted as much. In many cases they didn’t even need the extra staff to begin with. They did it because that’s what dipshit investors expected them to do.
