Meta employee gets dark about horror of working there as jobs bloodbath looms: I tend to cry in the shower

Nearly 80,000 Meta employees are headed into a bleak and gloomy week, as the tech giant announced it would be slashing its global workforce by 10%, laying off nearly 8,000 people total as the use of AI ramps up.“I tend to cry in the shower.I will say that when I’m in office, I have on more of a brave face,” one Bay Area-based employee, who has been with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company for more than a decade, told the San Francisco Standard anonymously.

“I definitely spend a good amount of that time sort of despondent somewhere in my house.”The employee noted the job has been “chaos,” as the company is gearing up to let go of thousands of workers on what is expected to be a Wednesday-morning bloodbath — nearly 500 of those jobs are in the Bay Area’s concentrated tech sector.The wider tech culling is being referred to as the “AI job apocalypse.” California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story “I am generally dissatisfied with leadership and angry,” the longtime employee told the news website.“This is as anxious and stressed as I have ever been at a job.”One of the harshest realities for employees to digest is the fact that they do not find out they have been let go until it actually happens.“If I get laid off, I’ll find out via an email sent at 7 a.m.

to my personal email.By the time I get that email, I will already have lost access to all of my work accounts and everything internal,” the employee noted.

“So if I am impacted, I won’t have any way to figure out who else was other than going on LinkedIn.”Employees have had to get creative to figure out what is going on, given the lack of transparency about the layoffs.The anonymous employee, an engineer, once created a spreadsheet tool to track employees’ layoff status �...