[jacques_chester]

I work at Meta (though after next Wednesday, maybe not).

I signed the petition.

Am I hypocrite? I think another version of me would think so.

I signed up because nobody else would take me on by the time they offered me something. After having only 3 months of work out of 18 months, with savings depleted to zero, facing the prospect of losing health coverage and having to fall back on family, I took the deal.

Hate me if you like. But I have a 40-odd year head start on hating me, so I doubt you'll make any kind of dent.

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In any case, pushing back, anyhow, anywhere, is better than nothing. Let's not get stuck in HN's favorite argumentative shortcut, the Nirvana Fallacy.

[jemmyw]

I'm very surprised that fb took you on but nobody else would. Why do you think that was?

[jacques_chester]

Hard to say, lots of things I guess. One was that I was never good at the current interview triad and needed to practice it a lot. Another was my resume, not impressive to a certain kind of hiring manager and recruiter.

Still another was that I asked blasphemous questions like "will I get to sleep?" and voiced controversial views like "teams focused on quality move faster".

The thing is that you sometimes get quite daft reasons back. One place said "you gave more examples from Pivotal than Shopify". Well yes, I was at Pivotal about thrice as long, that's how time works. I just let it slide.