A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there

Meta is preparing to lay off approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) as part of a broader tech industry crisis that has eliminated over 100,000 jobs since January, with workers facing particular anxiety about being forced to train AI systems designed to replace them. A longtime Meta employee describes unprecedented stress and surveillance at the company, criticizing management's unapologetic approach to using workers to develop the technology that will eliminate their jobs without additional compensation. This latest wave of tech layoffs differs from previous ones because the workers creating and training AI are the first targets for elimination, leaving even veteran tech workers feeling hopeless.