{"id":1009793,"date":"2026-05-25T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009793"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:11:26","slug":"ai-first-is-an-expectation-meet-the-meta-employee-who-asked-to-be-included-in-latest-8k-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/ai-first-is-an-expectation-meet-the-meta-employee-who-asked-to-be-included-in-latest-8k-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI-first is an expectation\u2019: Meet the Meta employee who \u2018asked to be included\u2019 in latest 8K layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unconventional move, a one-time content designer at Facebook admitted to having \u201casked to be included\u201d in Meta\u2019s layoffs this week. Julie Bone, who was with the Mark Zuckerberg-led giant for six years\u2014which she said \u201cis longer than 80% of the company\u201d\u2014shocked social media users with her layoff confession on May 20 (US time). <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, her SNS post joined a seemingly endless stream of heavy-hearted tweets and LinkedIn messages in which Meta employees across the world expressed their emotional distress upon being fired from the tech firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unconventional move, a one-time content designer at Facebook admitted to having \u201casked to be included\u201d in Meta\u2019s layoffs this week. Julie Bone, who was with the Mark Zuckerberg-led giant for six years\u2014which she said \u201cis longer than 80% of the company\u201d\u2014shocked social media users with her layoff confession on May 20 (US time). On Wednesday, her SNS post joined a seemingly endless stream of heavy-hearted tweets and LinkedIn messages in which Meta employees across the world expressed their emotional distress upon being fired from the tech firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009794,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009793\/revisions\/1009794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}