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Fired from Meta After 1 Week: Here's All the Dirt I Got

by httbs on 1/8/25, 12:26 PM with 20 comments

  • by msephton on 1/8/25, 12:58 PM

    Very amusing! Onion-level satirical tech commentary.

  • by flax on 1/8/25, 3:59 PM

    I couldn't even make it past the implication that meta ray-bans (which do not have a display) would be useful for receiving AI advice on coding.

  • by daft_pink on 1/8/25, 5:36 PM

    The bastard operator from hell updated for modern times.

  • by latexr on 1/8/25, 1:05 PM

    It’s OK, but could’ve been much better. The author writes too highly of themselves, it’s too much “I am a lawful good hero fighting against a chaotic evil corporation”. It felt more like a kid making up a story at playground than satire. At every paragraph I expected the story to make fun of itself by ending with “and that programmers’s name? Albert Einstein” or “and then everyone clapped”.

    Add some flaws to your genius programmer alter ego and some humanity to the villain, and the story will become way more interesting. You don’t need to go overboard, just add enough so it doesn’t feel like the story is populated by cardboard cutouts.

    Is there another story from this author someone would recommend? Preferably not on Medium, but it’s OK if it’s the only option.

  • by throw_pm23 on 1/8/25, 1:11 PM

    Joke aside, I've known many people throughout the years who ended up at one of the big tech companies. All very ambitious and smart people, very diverse.

    Only those that went to Facebook (Meta, whatever) all seem to have a certain personality trait (hard to pin down exactly, I would even cautiously say, some small aspect of their psychological makeup missing or mildly broken, but definitely the same among all people I know who went there).

  • by HackerThemAll on 1/8/25, 1:31 PM

    Of all the things that did not happen, this one did not happen the most. And is boring. He should have chosen [ALGOL 68](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572803) instead of Prolog, then it could certainly be fun.

  • by caseyy on 1/8/25, 1:14 PM

    I want this narrated in the style of Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short.

  • by anonymousiam on 1/8/25, 4:59 PM

    When I was done reading it, I came here to upvote and found that it was flagged. Did somebody not realize that this was satire?

  • by coldtea on 1/8/25, 12:41 PM

    This is hillarious!

  • by anoncow on 1/8/25, 1:00 PM

    Can't decide if satire or not. Well written, much like https://sebastiancarlos.com/how-i-quit-my-programmer-job-to-...

  • by frogger8 on 1/8/25, 1:07 PM

    beautiful post, thanks for sharing

  • by stevage on 1/8/25, 1:05 PM

    Ehh, it got silly quickly.