<story><title>Meta plans to lay off 10k employees</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2023/03/mark-zuckerberg-meta-year-of-efficiency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>setgree</author><text>I know that working in tech can warp your sense of reality, but it&amp;#x27;s really, really hard to imagine starting an email in which I announce that I&amp;#x27;m laying off 10,000 people -- the entire population of my  hometown and then some -- with &amp;quot;Meta is building the future of human connection.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t tell a story in which I would end up being a person who does that. It&amp;#x27;s too alien.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>Despite the claimed intended audience, that letter isn&amp;#x27;t written for employees. It is written for shareholders. And judging by the stock price, it had the intended effect.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meta plans to lay off 10k employees</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2023/03/mark-zuckerberg-meta-year-of-efficiency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>setgree</author><text>I know that working in tech can warp your sense of reality, but it&amp;#x27;s really, really hard to imagine starting an email in which I announce that I&amp;#x27;m laying off 10,000 people -- the entire population of my  hometown and then some -- with &amp;quot;Meta is building the future of human connection.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t tell a story in which I would end up being a person who does that. It&amp;#x27;s too alien.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t write that email by yourself. There are lots of cooks in the pot when it comes to writing this kind of message to a large corporation.</text></comment>