How did we come to this? How did a country that once dreamed of freedom, innovation, and human potential end up here — in offices we don’t want to return to, doing work that drains more than it gives, under leaders who measure our worth by output, not humanity?
Is this what we were building toward — a world where leaving becomes the only act of resistance left, where silence fills the space of those who walked away, and those who remain carry twice the burden?
Is there still a place for meaning in all of this — or are we simply cogs in a machine that forgot why it was built in the first place.
I pushed back a Meta Sr. Production Engineering reach out back 12 months to see where they're be at because they wanted relocation and nixed remote and hybrid WfH.