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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 13:57:44 JST Adrianna Tan

   In 2019 I met a young Meta engineer who was really fired up about wanting to change the company ‘from the inside’. She asked me why I hated her company. I said I’d just come from a place where I saw it accelerate genocide (Myanmar) and suppress democracy. She said oh at least they won’t do it here.

   I wonder where she is now. Probably laid off.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 20:52:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     @skinnylatte Those six figure salaries while “changing it from the inside” don’t hurt either.

     I know I’d be far more comfortable right now if I was “changing things from the inside.”

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 21:06:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     @vfrmedia @skinnylatte Yep.

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 21:06:04 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @skinnylatte often it works the other way round, the high salaries make people hold their nose and accept what their employer does (saw it happen with my old former high school friends way back in 1980s, before the Internet was widely in use, a lot of them got work for defence/aerospace/nuclear contractors (of which there are many in SE England) and are still working there..