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Zuck Tells ‘Woke’ Employees After Stock Tanks 50% It’s Time To Get To Work Or Get Out

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Looks like the days of virtue signaling around the water cooler while doing absolutely nothing to actually improve a company’s bottom line are well and truly over. At least at Meta, it is.

Mark Zuckerberg recently lost it on employees who asked about vacation days during a meeting in which the Facebook CEO revealed plans to cut underperforming workers, according to a report. It appears that the stress of a plummeting stock price, down more than 50% this year alone, has brought out the worse in the billionaire big tech boss.

According to the NY Post, during a companywide Q&A meeting on June 30, the Facebook boss warned a recent market slump “might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history” as he explained the reasoning behind the cost cuts.

During the virtual session, Zuckerberg reportedly “appeared visibly frustrated” after one Chicago-based employee asked whether “Meta Days,” or extra time off introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, would continue in 2023.

“Um … all right,” Zuckerberg said after hearing the pre-recorded question, according to a recording obtained by The Verge. “Given my tone in the rest of the Q&A, you can probably imagine what my reaction to this is.”

During that meeting, Zuckerberg also told employees that Meta would be implementing higher standards and would be letting go of those who were unable to meet the new performance metrics.

“Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg said.

“Part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me,” Zuckerberg added.

Naturally, many of Meta’s ‘woke’ employees were shocked to learn that they were going to have to actually do some work. Zuck’s admission that workers’ jobs were on the line drew stunned reactions from some of the virtual meeting attendees.

“Did Mark just say there are a bunch of people at this company that don’t belong here[?]” one staffer asked on an internal messaging platform.

“Who hired them?” another employee quipped.

Others lauded Zuckerberg’s shift in tone.

“This is war-time, we need a war-time CEO,” one employee wrote.

Despite Meta representatives downplaying Zuckerberg’s comments in a statement to The Verge, employee faith in Meta’s upper management has reportedly plummeted as the company contends with market-related challenges as well as ongoing scrutiny from lawmakers over its business practices.

An internal survey said just 39% of Meta employees were optimistic about the company’s future, while just 42% had “confidence in leadership.”

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