Engineering management Memes

So Meta decided to treat their engineers like stateless, hot-swappable compute units—you know, the whole "move fast and break things" philosophy applied to human resources. The engineers, being rational actors with functioning LinkedIn accounts, decided to exercise their right to horizontal scaling... to different companies. The shocked Pikachu face really captures that corporate "wait, you mean treating people like Docker containers has consequences?" energy. Turns out when you treat engineers as interchangeable resources, they'll interchange themselves right out the door. Who could've predicted that resource allocation strategies that work for EC2 instances don't translate well to sentient beings with stock options and better offers from competitors? The irony is delicious: a company built on connecting people somehow forgot that their own engineers aren't just API endpoints that respond to GET requests for productivity.