Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits
20 hours ago by sanitation to c/technology
I used to work for a company that did them. Your usual deliverables would be paused, including meetings.
It wasn't "more". They were great. Most of our internal tooling was prototyped that way, and that tooling was super awesome... because it directly solved the real issues we had in our processes.
My current company is "you can during the designated hackathon events, but you still have to do everything you usually would". Which is absurd because it means that we don't always have the option to work late for free.
Good hackathons don't mean more work. They should carve out time for people to participate. However if the systems those employees are maintaining need constant work then you can't carve out time for a hackathon because the systems will go down otherwise. It sounds like Facebook is doing the latter. A one off event will also not improve morale, just like a pizza party won't on its own.
Hackathons are not working more. They’re supposed to be a liberal period to work on whatever seems interesting to the workers. In Meta’s early days, they were a big part of their culture and Zuck in particular fed on them.
I don’t expect everyone to know anything about Silicon Valley hackathons, but no, they’re not just “more work.” However when people are already crushed by what’s going on at work, they don’t have a lot of creative energy just looking for an outlet.
if you are still working at meta, you are there for the money, even tho it's one of the most harmful companies in the world for our society and our planet. If your morale is low because some coworkers got fired, well, fuck you. You are part of the cancer of this planet, so if you all get laid off and meta is burned to the ground, I won't be happier.
I bet there are at least some working there who have their heads in the sand about how bad a company it is and just want to believe they’re good people doing good work. I don’t think many people want to admit to themselves that they’re just doing something for money. But yeah… the proverbial rock they live under must be mountain-sized.
way to shift blame
Who is shifting blame here? I'm just saying that they are part of the hell, not victims. Meta is rotten to the core, and if you work there, it means you are ok with what they do, hence the lack of sympathy.
eh, you know what, fair enough!
a buffet of HR-solutionism like resilience training, pulse surveys, and the dreaded team-building exercise.
Well said, and soo true! 😅
How can their spirits be crushed when he told them to be happy?
He obviously needs to lay off more people.
If he lays off all the unhappy people, happiness will go up!
Layoffs will continue until morale improves.
When they would need the spirit in order to be happy, but some of the spirit isn't in there anymore
Couldn't have happened to a nicer boss or company.
The article without Yahoo: https://futurism.com/...
@sanitation@lemmy.today, could you edit the post to use this link instead?
Updated. I don't follow why yahoo link is bad but if it makes people happier
Thanks!
A big reason for me is that people can tell who the source is more easily, instead of seeing a generic Yahoo link. If someone is blocking or flagging a particular domain through their app / front-end, then it won't work for a yahoo link.
Also while I don't think Yahoo is doing something illegal, my gut says that these articles are harming the smaller news orgs. When Yahoo/MSN publishes the full article, the user likely doesn't notice who the actual news org is, likely doesn't go to the real news orgs website, the news org has a harder time building a brand / reputation, and over time they might become even more dependent on Yahoo to stay afloat. A lot of the time when I look up a story, the yahoo page ranks above the actual original source, and that feels wrong to me
If I was Mark, I would require all company meetings to happen in the Metaverse, so I could change all their sad faces to happy smily faces.
Why have sad conversations when you can have "hey boss I think you suck and I quit! 😄😄"
It used to be a pretty big deal to land a job at Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft or Netflix as a dev. If you were fresh out of college and saw your friend update their linkedin to show that they've been employed in one of these companies, it fucking meant something.
I don't know if it's just my perception, but when I see a guy I know working for Big Tech, it's just fucking disgusting. Being a part of a machine that's actively contributing to the literal downfall of society as we know it, pushing us into the depths of technofeudalism and corporate fascism.
In my experience, no one working for Meta does so for “spirit.” There are two kinds of people there:
Extremely smart and business savvy, there to make lots of money and pretty good at doing so. These people tend to be a little older and more cutthroat. They don’t have “spirit” to be crushed. They will stay or leave on financials alone.
Younger crowd, largely straight from college, working across product, engineering, and other operations roles. These folks don’t have “spirit” per se - they have operated on large paychecks and a high energy work environment full of the brainy types they roomed with at college. A posh office full of free amenities is half of what kept them going and the other half was youthful hormones fueled by each other and a general sense of being on top of the world by virtue of working there.
THAT last part has been crushed, but it is not what I would call “spirit” or “soul.” More like a collective delusion that fed on its own momentum. Like anything else so divorced from reality, it was always going to crash. It’s amazing they kept it going as long as they did.
So, mission accomplished?
And he doesn't give a f$ck.
Admits or boasts?
"BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!" - Every Sociopathic Oligarch
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lmao "Hey, you guys wanna work more, but 'for fun'?"
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