Is it just me, or does "The Meta Way" feel like a game of musical chairs played in a minefield?

ny · 2026-04-24T15:25:03.261Z

I spent three hours yesterday updating a project doc for a team that literally doesn’t exist anymore. My manager’s manager is currently an empty chair, and the peer I’ve been collaborating with for six months just had his Slack access cut while we were mid-sentence on a PR review. The "Efficiency" pivot is just a fancy way of saying we’re all holding our breath until the next wave of random number generator layoffs hits our org. It’s hard to care about the metaverse, the next AI wrapper, or whatever "North Star" metric leadership is preaching this quarter when you’re constantly waiting for the 9:00 AM calendar invite that turns your screen into a brick. We’re all just high-paid temp workers waiting for the algorithm to decide we’re "redundant." I’m not even angry anymore; I’m just impressed by how much energy we waste pretending this is a career instead of a quarterly subscription service for our labor. Keep refreshing your email, everyone. Enjoy the perks while they last.

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