India, Dec. 3 -- A US woman who was laid off by Meta earlier this year says she is still struggling to find work nine months later and believes the "low performer" label attached to her exit is partly to blame.

In an as-told-to essay published by Business Insider, Brittney Ball detailed how losing her job at the tech giant upended her life, finances and confidence, even as it pushed her toward unexpected personal growth.

Ball, a single mother who once lived in a homeless shelter, said joining Meta in 2020 as a documentation engineer had been "life-changing". "When I got hired at Meta in 2020, it was life-changing for me as a single mom. It represented safety and stability - a place to work hard at and retire from," she told Business Ins...