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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He knows which way the wind is blowing...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not just social issues.

It's easier if people quit than you firing them.

So do shit like this so people "protest resign" and fill their positions with H1B's who can't resign because they'd be deported and take a fraction of the pay.

Resigning in protest is never a good idea.

Stay, obstruct, make them fire you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Fuck the wind. Stand tall against the gale of hate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness,”

Someone gets triggered by free speech here.

Anyway, wind blows the other way now. Zuck doesn't want to piss against it

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (5 children)

we can only hope fb implodes sooner rather than later. I personally know multiple people working there who are very decent human beings who need to pay bills. I just hope their current trajectory will force employee action and paralyze fb long enough to hurt. Unlike other places it's not so simple to just hire a load of IT professionals and have any meaningful results short term, esp. if they have not been ramped up to speed by their colleagues. So it's not impossible, bowever tolerance threshold is kind of high for any action to take place. Wads of cash, unpaid mortgages and all. Employees of big tech are truly living in gold cages...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

With meta on your resume you can easily find employment or freelance. Tech people have widely applicable and desired skills. Hell they could even move to a non 3rd world country and be better off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes but at Facebook they make more money, and money speaks louder than morals 🤡 I'm not sorry for the people working at Facebook. They are part of the problem. Facebook didn't just suddenly become evil yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I recently quit facebook due to rampant russian propaganda, unmoderated communities full of far left or far right (same thing really) bots and constant, rampant scams and ai posts. It's not that platform has it, any platform with 5 digit userbase has them. It is that FB has used it consistently across all their platforms to drive """""engagement"""".

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Five people interviewed….

“It’s total chaos!!!”

I despise Facebook as much as the next person, but sensationalism hurts more than it helps.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

"Internal conversations and five people interviewed."

Let's be honest. For current employees, it's probably 10-100 times that. If my company did something controversial and then the press asked me for a reaction, I'd say "no comment" like it's my catch phrase. Unless you already have a job lined up (that can't be undone by "badmouthing your employer"), no one's being open and truthful.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago

Getting five employee accounts on record is impressive.

There is not a zero-risk of retaliation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Fecesbook is crap. Crap take from a crappy data salesman with nothing but crap to sell. I can't wait until it eats itself from all the bots.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Better late than never.

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