As Meta laid off nearly 8,000 employees across the globe, an emotional post by an employee in Singapore after he was asked to quit has gone viral on social media. Gary Tay, an AdTech Business Support Engineer, wrote in a post on LinkedIn that he spent Tuesday training his new "pod engineer" and the next day, he was "laid off". The terminated Meta employee revealed in his post that he spent 3,544 days at the company, about 9 years and 9 months. He joined in London before moving to Singapore.
"Yesterday i was training up my new pod engineer, glad i managed to squeeze in everything. Today. I'm laid off. 3,544 days (9yrs,~9mths).Hired in London, retrenched in Singapore. Longer than 99.5% of current employees globally. 99.9% longer than anyone in the APAC office," his post read. He said he was grateful to have worked at Meta, formerly Facebook, during its earlier years, adding that not many Singaporeans can say they have been a engineer at Meta and Microsoft for over 15 years.
