{"id":41939,"date":"2025-02-11T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41939"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:26:31","slug":"when-you-need-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/11\/when-you-need-a-team\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Need A Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; don&#8217;t do this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D4VXF36JENFHBOBBRPO42WGMNY\" data-el=\"text\">In a companywide\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/01\/30\/meta-policy-shifts-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">town hall meeting<\/a> late last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the [personnel] cuts, arguing that the system would give remaining employees better colleagues, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D4VXF36JENFHBOBBRPO42WGMNY\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cI think this makes the company better. I\u2019m not going to be apologetic for it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think most people here want to work with people who are going to be better fits.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/02\/10\/tech-layoffs-workers-meta-microsoft-workday\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F4104fcd%2F67aa3bf67a52181d71babc3c%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F22%2F57%2F67aa3bf67a52181d71babc3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D4VXF36JENFHBOBBRPO42WGMNY\" data-el=\"text\">Reminding employees that they&#8217;re considered fungible, which is to say interchangeable or even excess, is a great way to instill depression and ennui.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D4VXF36JENFHBOBBRPO42WGMNY\" data-el=\"text\">I wonder how much longer before Zuckerberg gets his own layoff notice? <em><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/em> seems to becoming its own little desert, <em><strong>Metaverse<\/strong><\/em> has disappeared into the ether, and he&#8217;s running around firing people without asking himself why things are falling apart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; don&#8217;t do this: In a companywide\u00a0town hall meeting late last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the [personnel] cuts, arguing that the system would give remaining employees better colleagues, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Washington Post. \u201cI think this makes the company better. I\u2019m \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/11\/when-you-need-a-team\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41940,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939\/revisions\/41940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}