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A Meta employee is making headlines after she revealed that she voluntarily quit after six years of service because she felt her ambitions were at odds with the company’s. A woman named Julie Bone, who worked as a content designer for Facebook in Los Angeles, was among those who left the organization after the latest round of layoffs.
Announcing the development, Julie Bone said in a LinkedIn post: “Personal update: I’m leaving Meta as part of today’s layoffs. To be accurate, I’ve asked to be included. I was there exactly six years, which was longer than 80% of the company.”
She indicated that it was not an impulsive decision, rather she had thought about it for a long time, saying: “My goals and my ambitions were on different continents. I wanted to move on because the timing was right for my personal life and partly because I hoped it might help save a place for someone who wanted to stay.”
Julie Bone claimed that the mismatch between her goals and Meta’s direction was what made her make the direct decision. Reflecting on how the nature of her work has changed over the past year due to an AI-first approach, she noted, “In the past year, I’ve learned to vibrate code to prototype, vibrate code to assign fixes in the codebase, and build and deploy agents that have reshaped my normal weekly tasks. I’ve gotten my feet wet in rapid design.”
At Meta, she is skeptical of “AI-first”, writing: “It’s not technophobic to say that no amount of AI upskilling will protect workers without coordinated action.” She expressed a desire to take a break from looking for new roles that prioritize transparency and creativity in editorial practice.
She added: “I’ll be looking for roles where verbal transparency, strong editorial judgment and cultural savvy are seen as essential, and where creativity is still important. At that time, I’ll be eager for formal leads and wild chatter about smarter, more interesting teams doing smart and interesting work.” At the end of the post, she stated that she did not know whether she was already on the list of those dismissed or whether the table was changed at her request.
Reaction on social networks
Social media users reacted strongly to the post, with one user sympathizing with Bone’s: “I’m sorry. I got fired from Microsoft a year ago and a lot of great things happened after that.”
Another user noted, “Voluntary breathing in this market could trigger a year of unemployment or more.”
A third user said: “Whether one cell in one table was changed matters far less than all the other positive waves of your work and news.”
