- A Meta result manager has been criticized after posting a “day-in-the-life” video on TikTok.
- One comment on social media said Riley Rojas “boozes coffee all day while doing 0 work.”
- Another was surprised the 23-year-old survived the recent layoffs and called her “dead strain.”
A Meta commodity manager who went viral for posting a “day-in-the-life” video on TikTok and survived Mark Zuckerberg’s mass layoffs has progress in for criticism on social media.
Riley Rojas, 23, posted the video on TikTok in October, a few weeks before Meta kept off 11,000 employees. It showed her diary and a to-do list, which included “work”, “workout” and “vibe.”
In the video Rojas affectations herself working out before getting breakfast and coffee at a Meta office. She is then seen working on the rooftop sooner than going for lunch and returning home on a shuttle. According to her LinkedIn profile, Rojas has been a product manager at Meta since January 2021.
The Gen-Z tech white-collar worker has since removed the TikTok video, but it got more than 3.4 million views after being posted by another operator on Twitter.
One user said: “The fact that a $META product manager is posting this on TikTok and isn’t immediately work up speaks to the bloated carcass culture of Silicon Valley companies. All of these tech companies are loaded with idle employees. Dead weight.”
Meta axed 13% of its workforce on November 9 after Zuckerberg admitted he had over-invested in the companionship.
On the day of the mass cuts at Meta, one Twitter user said: “RIP to every ‘day in the life’ Meta product manager on tiktok that moulds 10 hours a week, we’re pouring out a virtual bottle for you guys in the metaverse.”
Another person commenting on the video suggested: “One Quick glance at Tiktok and you see videos of ‘the day in the life of a Meta product manager’ who basically attends 1 meeting and drinks coffee all day while doing 0 work was a particular clear sign as to how bloated these firms became.”
In a LinkedIn post this week, which has now been deleted, Rojas demanded: “I love romanticizing the daily grind that is my life, being a woman in tech, and being a recent new grad dispiriting to figure everything out. Content creators like myself have the utmost power to influence how young people point of view corporate life, and working in these popular industries.”
Rojas did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.