Posted on 04/16/2023 5:04:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As you’ve likely already heard, Facebook’s parent company Meta is laying off large numbers of people in an effort to remain financially viable. This stressful situation has been exacerbated by the absence of much of its management who are working remotely, some from other countries. How could things have possibly gone so far downhill so quickly? Do you suppose there might have been something less than ideal about their business practices and how they managed their workforce? Perhaps that idea will resonate a bit more after you hear from Madelyn Machado, who was a recruiter for Meta earning an eye-popping $190,000 per year. And what did she do for Meta while she was there? Nothing. She wasn’t even asked to do anything. So she was obviously quite sad when they let her go. (Yahoo Finance)
Madelyn Machado claims she joined Meta as a recruiter in the fall of 2021 with a stunning salary of $190,000 per year — but wasn’t able to actually do the job she was hired for.
“We weren’t expected to hire anybody for the first six months — even the first year,” she said in a TikTok video discussing her experience at the social media company. “That really blew my mind.”
The clip has gone viral and has been watched more than 436,000 times since being posted March 16.
Below is the brief clip where “Maddie” explains what her job was like. It wasn’t that she literally did nothing all day. There were training seminars to attend and some relaxing spa treatments. She just wasn’t doing any recruiting. In fact, nobody was. Meta wasn’t hiring at the time.
@maddie_machoReplying to @laurendaniellehtx those were the days man. *sigh* #meta #layoffs #google #workingintech #metalayoffs
So Meta hired a recruiter at almost $200K per year when they knew that she wouldn’t be asked to recruit anyone. And yet they didn’t find any other related work for her to do either. They just let her hang around, take some training courses, and enjoy the spacious office building. And you’re telling me that Meta wasn’t making money? It’s certainly a mystery.
All kidding aside, this seems to be little more than a symptom of what many industry analysts have been warning investors about for ages. Big Tech, particularly in the Silicon Valley region, was seen for too long as a “can’t miss” investment. Everyone with a new online idea that looked even remotely viable had money showered down on them and stock values continued to rise. Meta had locked up so much of the available online advertising revenue that it was ridiculous. There was so much money sloshing around that it could be easy for things to fall through the cracks. (Like hiring recruiters when you had no job openings to fill.)
But in the reverse of a common saying about the economy, a low tide lowers all boats and the love train in Silicon Valley began slowing down. It appears that most of the executives there began to stop and say, ‘Maybe we should look at where we’re flushing all of this money.’ And then the layoffs began. There’s probably a lesson in all of this for everyone. The question is whether or not they’ll actually learn anything.
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Meta. Such a worthless excuse for a company.
I betcha I could do it better!
Libtards should never be in charge of finances unless a disaster is required
I can daydream about all the good work I would have done had I been employed by them that year.
They owe me a bonus!!!
Her resume’ must be impressive. “I was paid $190,000 per year at Meta to do nothing and I did it to the very best of my ability.”
(I can’t believe she is sharing this with the world)
“On my last job, I did nothing. On the job before that, I did far less but I was gaining experience.”
With that addition to her resume, she is going to have a hard time getting a normal job-salary paid for work performed. Would you hire this woman to sell lipstick in the cosmetics deparment at Nordstrom?
Depends. Need a picture to see if I’d hit it, or something.
“Libtards should never be in charge of finances unless a disaster is required”
Like the recent SV bank failure.
Recessions uncover what auditors do not.
As you say, you wouldn’t hire her to sell lipstick.
Well, thank God they weren’t doing anything.
Not sure.
I have no experience with lipstick.
Marxist Election Tampering Agency (META)
Meta, brought to you by a guy with millions of times more money than brains.
Oh hell yes.
All day.
Lol
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