Meta employee loses job after 8 months of joining, says people she met while working outweigh job loss pain

By Divyanshi SharmaGetting to know that you are being given the pink slip from your office job is hard enough. And it becomes tougher when you have cultivated some meaningful relationships at your workplace. All of a sudden, you have nowhere to go to every morning, will not be seeing those friendly places, won’t be logging in, and so on. The feeling can be overwhelming for a lot of people and for some, the pain of losing great coworkers is more than that of losing the job.

This is exactly what happened with an ex-Meta employee, who took to LinkedIn to reveal that her role had been eliminated as part of Meta’s latest round of layoffs. The woman added that she had cultivated some amazing relationships at her workplace and would ‘do it all over again’ many times.

In a LinkedIn post, she wrote that it had been a week since she was affected by the Meta layoffs and during this time, she went through some ‘intense emotions’.

“A week of some very intense emotions as I grieve the end of a chapter that I wholeheartedly believed was the start of a new and forever story I got to write! As this has been immensely difficult to understand and accept there has been something I can say that has stayed positive and that I have won, in what people would consider a loss. My #metamates and friends,” she wrote.

Talking about her ‘meta mates’ more, the woman says that she would do the whole layoffs ‘100000000 times over’ as the people and relationships that she gained at her workplace outweigh the loss of the job.

Her post reads, “If I had to do it all over again knowing that I would be one of the thousands affected by this layoff I would do it 100000000 times over, because the people and relationships I’ve gained here outweigh the loss of the job. What makes #meta so special are all the people that work so hard behind the scenes, gosh, if you only knew.

“The coworkers that become family and the memories and relationships that are formed while working are the greatest I’ve ever experienced. I’ve never met such incredible human beings one and here now rallying together to help one another regardless if they were part of the layoffs or not.”

Encouraring people who had been laid off to reach out to her for help, the woman wrote, “To anyone that was affected by the #metalayoffs please reach out if you need anything at all. I’m here to be a shoulder to lean on, ears to listen, and help with whatever I can.”

Ending her post on a rather positive note, the woman thanked her former colleagues and wrote that they ‘impacted her in a positive way’.

“Thank you to everyone whose paths I was able to cross. You’ve impacted me in such a positive way, thank you isn’t enough,” she wrote.

Meta, meanwhile, announced firing 11,000 people in November last year. In March 2023, 10,000 roles were eliminated. However, the company had notified only 4,000 employees back in March. The remaining 6,000 employees reportedly got laid off in May.

After laying off thousands of employees, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, during a company-wide meeting, told employees that he ‘hopes that Meta will have more stability but less bureaucracy in the future’, as per a report by The Washington Post.