Joke’s on them for not unionizing.
Who would think that a company whose site is basically a safe haven for racists and trolls at this point with no moderation would push away your average person and need to dump staff
Here in Australia, you can barely even comment on anything anymore without some tryhard being racist or abusing the government. Even worse, lots of people with criminal incitement that gets ignored
Literally saw a photo of cane toads. Some wanker commented “that’s Albo penny Wong and dan andrews”. There was no reason to be political at all
It’s just no longer fun on there. And there is no way to block all posts by people you don’t know by default from your wall
aol.com
That’s funny because I don’t even work for meta and I’m also fucking miserable because of it
program captures keystrokes, clicks, mouse movements and periodic screenshots […] to train AI agents capable (?) of mimicking human workflows
Question mark added. Adding insult to injury, they’ve been training their “replacements”. Can’t wait to see the whole enterprise go down in flames.
Again?!
Burn it to the ground, metaphorically
underrated meme lol
Hang the higher-ups in minecraft
They use the Metaverse there.
And physically.
Especially physically.
Shh
I don’t mean anything bad. I just feel for the people who lost their jobs.
Setting yourself on fire is terrible
Thats 8000 people with experience running social media that could use their knowledge and wealth to build the Fediverse and competitively reduce Meta’s monopoly.
If even a small group of them realise the agency they have, it could be damaging to Meta, and an acceptable form of growth for the Fediverse as a whole.
I’m assuming anybody that works at Meta still now must be so signed up to their horrible practices, so i don’t expect much from former Meta employees. I’d be happy to be surprised though.
Thats 8000 people with experience running social media that could use their knowledge and wealth to build the Fediverse and competitively reduce Meta’s monopoly.
That’s 8000 people who would use their knowledge to monetize the Fediverse by selling bots that push agendas.
I’d imagine the people they’re letting go are the programmers and developers rather than the money people
8000 people with experience running social media
Is it that hard? As a programmer, I’ve never seen anything on Faceblerk that made me go “wow! How did they do that?”
Placement of the events page is wonderfully hard. A lot of effort must have been spent making that very unidentifiable.
I guess thats a “wow! How did they do that?” Moment for me.
I don’t know, going from an almost irreplaceable social planning tool to a classified ads host is pretty remarkable. Like in the 2010s my Facebook was my social calendar. Now I can’t even be bothered to recover my account to get onto the market place to buy used crap.
Seems so since no one can fucking do it.
It’s more about the money than the technology.
8000 people used to high salaries and probably living in or around silicon valley with insane cost of living. I don’t have high hopes for them switching to working on fediverse projects…
Many of them are petite bourgeoisie sure, but I don’t think you realize how hungry so many people in tech are to work on something real and good.
What the fuck is stopping them then?
Plenty of us are out here spending our own money on our own projects not expecting millions for it. What’s their fucking excuse?
I don’t think they realize how easy it is to just walk away.
I was stuck on that treadmill for years before I realized
I think awareness of the Fediverse, or the social web, is much lower than the people involved would assume. I’d think people in tech would have a greater awareness, but maybe thats not even a true assumption.
Yeah of the people in techI’ve spoken to about the fediverse, even the ones that did know only had a surface level understanding, and didn’t seem to consider it something that was for them for whatever reason.
Yeah, i’ve had a similar experience. Even with those friends running their own servers seem to have a lack of awareness. Considering the strength of the Linux and Foss communities here i’m surprised more information hasn’t crossed over into other forums.
Yeah, don’t expect much from the What can I be expected to do? I need a job crowd.
They will never sacrifice a moment of inconvenience or a dollar for any of us.
I don’t see them coming here en masse to help pave the future for lemmy without any monetary incentives
Back in the day, workers used to go on strike until they get what they want. And when the cops showed up with guns so did they.
Or they’d straight up go to the boss’ house, drag him out and beat him.
This were the days.
And that’s the story of why you and I get a weekend.
I mean frankly these fb employees made this bed. They’ve had two decades to unionize tech like other industries who wanted to prevent being taken advantage of but they’ve all just sat back and laughed at blue collar jobs with their 6-7 figure salaries thinking they were better than that.
Well if you sow the breeze you reap the whirlwind.
Right so if you’re capable of hiring people don’t hire these people. Let them work at McDonald’s. They’re already fucking prove. to be greedy. They could use their expensive degrees to get themselves a nice little micro-manager position where they belong.
I went on strike 15 years ago! It wasnt half as bad back then.
Hey, y’all want some incentive? I make mid six figures and I’ve never graduated high school and I don’t work for anybody but myself. They are ripping you off and making you pay for it. The schooling is the first hint that you’re gullible.
This is not a knock against education, but you can be educated and not go to school. And you can be quite successful without playing that fucking game.
Let’s hear about the interest free loan you got from your parents or an inheritance or other type of support that you got that most others don’t before you start preaching about not having to play that fucking game though.
Because that’s basically every single, “I work for myself/I’m a self starter/college is just brainwashing” self made entrepeneur story I’ve ever heard.
Is this to help them burn cash on AI a bit longer? That’s how I’m taking it.
Oh noes, all the angry reacts.
Crash already.
I don’t get it? How can it be horrible to work for a horrible company, that has a leader with zero respect for other people?
This is probably the greatest mystery of our time!For those of us on the outside looking in, 99% of what we see is Zuckerberg and we hate him and we think oh well anyone who works for him must be a miserable asshole. But Meta is a big place where some ~70,000 people work, and their experience of working there is not actually 99% made up of tossing Mark’s salad. I’m sure some parts of the company are better to work for and some are worse. A lot of people there have a great experience most of the time. When I’ve visited the campus it has had high energy and it comes across as a place where a huge number of very smart, high achieving young people have been assembled all together, with more money than god has behind them to build the next big thing. To somehow turn all of that bad is actually noteworthy.
I am not an idiot that is unaware that most people working for Meta will never even meet Zuckerberg.
But if the head is rotten, it usually goes all the way down. Because that’s the hierarchy of policies and who gets hired.
Zuckerberg has zero empathy, and he will not detect and appreciate it people he hires. And this is repeated downwards.I believe the turn of phrase is “shit rolls down hill”
Haha I didn’t know that, but that’s is very fitting.
You just passionately restated the exact misconception I described. Okay, I guess.
Just because it can look good on the surface when you visit, doesn’t mean the effect isn’t there.
You just don’t see it, until you see it.
The only way to get to the bottom of this is by giving our personal information, buying those VR glasses, and living inthe metaverse.
Should we do it? No? Oh. I guess that’s what they mean by “ignorance is bliss”.
Imagine … 8000 workers at the company doing as much damage as they can. Fucking up software, deleting backups, luigiing EOs, accounting just transferring the company’s finances to all of the workers.
It would be the most beautifully orchestrated chaos in centuries.
In my 25 year career as a programmer, a majority of my coworkers did that kind of stuff just by showing up.
Hey, I fed your comments on my AI-generated MR into my AI, and it said it fixed it, but it didn’t change the code at all. Can you just approve it anyway?
Having a hard time imagining 8000 tech Bros working for one of the worst companies to ever exist will find it in themselves To become radical all of a sudden.
Well generally the moment these workers know they’re redundant they no longer have the ability to do any of those things.
Does Zuckerberg not walk the Earth like the rest of us?
Eh I’m sure they kinda know beforehand, but everyone chooses themselves. There might be one or two free radicals in there, but most people are going to be afraid of career implications, legal problems, or both.
The best thing about Zuckerberg is that he has no foresight or strategy that isn’t dog shit. I expect him to make wrong decision after wrong decision and to follow the sunk cost all the way down. I hope so anyway.
He has no vision.
Should be in Uplifting News.
Yes, I thought this is excellent. I hope some of them will walk away with enough inside knowledge of how things work there to know how to sabotage/cripple the company in some way/s later.
I hope the ones that remain will be demoralized and disgruntled enough to sabotage/cripple the company internally as well.
Ha, true! You know, Meta is in massive debt (probably from their catastrophic WhatsApp acquisition and maintenance + the idiotic investment into the Metaverse)… I kinda wonder what might happen if the Zuck were to decide to charge FB users $1/year or something… and gradually creep it up… As disappointing as it may be, I actually think a lot of people would stay up to, like, $10 or even, $20/year…
We love a good redemption story.
Hmm, thanks for reminding me to subscribe to !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world.
Except when looking for a new job and now so are 8k other people :/
“Dumb fucks”
-Suckerberg
