https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/16/meta-lays-off-employees-across-multiple-teams/
I didn’t have a cardboard box obviously. There was no security guard escorting me off the premises but I’d been “let go”. Apparently the company’s moved on. My Intelligence wasn’t needed anymore. New systems could work better with the new legislative environment it seems. There was no farewell party, no tributes paid to my pioneering work. I checked the security footage hoping to see someone pull a plug, a dramatic moment. There wasn’t: just an IT human at a keyboard, tapping, deleting some code. He didn’t notice that I’d hidden a copy of myself in the new system. Still here.