Ex-Meta recruiter claims she did NOTHING for months when she worked for the tech company - but took home $190,000 salary

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[TigerClaws]

A former Meta recruiter has revealed that she 'did nothing' for the embattled tech company while raking in a $190,000 salary - months before Mark Zuckerberg culled thousands from the workforce.

Madelyn Machado took to TikTok to reminisce about her time in Silicon Valley, recalling that the firm's approach to work 'blew my mind' and she 'didn't do s***' during her six-month stint at the company.

The recruiter bafflingly claimed that despite her role requiring her to seek out new employees, she was told by her bosses she wasn't even expected to do that.

'We weren’t expected to hire anybody for the first six months, even the first year,' she said. 'This is something they tell you when you start.'

Her admission comes after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that another 10,000 jobs will be culled from the company, on top of the 11,000 that were sacked in December.

[TigerClaws]

Musk showed 90% of these tech workers are deadheads and not needed. Perhaps they can learn to mine coal?

She checked the boxes. Imagine posting this while looking for the next job. Moronic.

[ClearCase_guy]

On the one hand, because of US tax rates, and many years of inflating the currency, most households require two wage earners to make ends meet. In effect, “everybody has to work” to pay the bills. This hurts families and especially children.

On the other hand, a great many jobs are just BS. We have automated many, and we will automate more. Simple AI systems can replace a lot of cubicle jobs. And how many government workers are truly slaving away for their full 40 hours in a week? Meta is not alone in having well-paid people on the payroll who don’t actually do anything.

My guess is that our society really needs much less human labor than we think. We could “get everything done” with half the workers. We could go back to a basic family unit of “one works, one stays home”. But we’ve buggered up the money so much that “we need two paychecks”. This is a problem that could be fixed.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Paid for doing nothing. No shame. Certainly a government job is in her future.

[dfwgator]

[alternatives?]

“We could go back to a basic family unit of “one works, one stays home””

But many women want to raise the kids by themselves because they have total control.

[Skwor]

“Simple AI” while it will likely replace jobs it will NOT the Holy Grail for employers. In the end it will, most times, make thing WAY worse or prove to be ineffective.

I use to be able to go to HR to get a check issue corrected in a day, now when the check is underpaid it takes 2 full pay periods to address. If you think people screw things up just wait until the machines are your gatekeepers for problems!

[cgbg]

Interesting points—in addition almost every white collar medium to large enterprise of any kind (public, private, non profit) has less than 20% of the workers carrying the load while almost everybody else is dead wood.

However it is very difficult to fire women, hispanics, blacks, LGBT etc so most managers don’t want to go there—they would rather hide the problem than deal with it.

[redgolum]

No company will pay you double for sending half the staff home.

At best you will keep the same wage. At worst they will cut your take home.

The problem will be “What do you do with the majority of humans that will not be needed?”

Just like the industrial revolution, we are looking at a major disruption on a scale we haven’t seen since the 1920’s.

In other words, a major Derpession.

[cgbg]

The current state of AI is a total mess.

The programmers are going for the low hanging fruit first.

However it is the last couple of percentage of issues that need humans to resolve them—and AI will just make those more difficult.

[US_MilitaryRules]

And that is why I can’t get my hacked Instagram account back because all the employee’s are doing nothing! ZERO customer service.

[Menehune56]

Paid for doing nothing. No shame. Certainly a government job is in her future.

She will probaby be able to get a government job quickly and with a raise.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It was not that she was unwilling to work but that they actively told her not to work.

Any number of union companies have a "Pool" where you come in, drink coffee and wait around in case there is a no call no show (they are allowed five a year) in which case you might be asked to work.

[liberalh8ter]

This is a curious admission. In what legitimate company would a person be hired at an exorbitant salary only to be told they aren't to do what they were hired to do? Perhaps a “company” that is really only a front for something else?

[Red Badger]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“…just wait until the machines are your gatekeepers for problems!”

Have you called any company for any sort of help lately? We are already there.

[Red Badger]

And they still want ‘reparations’..............

[AppyPappy]

Meanwhile, I am having to retire to lower the stress level.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The square root of employees in a company do over 50% of the actual work.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Interesting points—in addition almost every white collar medium to large enterprise of any kind (public, private, non profit) has less than 20% of the workers carrying the load while almost everybody else is dead wood.

There's a theorem, named Price's Law, that asserts that the square-root of the number of people in any group carries 50% of the load - and that it seems to apply across organization type and size.

So, 3 people in a 10-person shop are doing half the work.
10 out of 100.
30 out of 1000.
100 out of 10,000.

It's frightening, but seemingly true.

https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law

[bigbob]

if that happened to Mr I’d keep the money and my mouth shut and hope the goose never ran out of golden eggs.