Is this to help them burn cash on AI a bit longer? That’s how I’m taking it.
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.
I don’t see them coming here en masse to help pave the future for lemmy without any monetary incentives
“Dumb fucks”
-Suckerberg
android zuckerborg is unlikely to care about humanity
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.
what’s 8000 people potentially going homeless when fuckerberg can make ANOTHER billion dollars.
If they’re not afraid to fuck their users, don’t act surprised when you work for them and one day they decided to fuck you in the ass.
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.
Well generally the moment these workers know they’re redundant they no longer have the ability to do any of those things.
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.
An already terrible company treats you terribly? Make the transition rough. Delete old notes, write bugs in scripts, delete admin accounts. Think about what makes your job work, what makes the work work, and figure out what the equivalent of monkey wrenching is for the digital age. Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Have you not heard of ‘gardening leave’? There’s no opportunity to do this. You just get shown the door.
Unless you see it coming via unofficial means which is not uncommon in large companies. When the same department roles are advertised in bulk in different countries for example, restructuring like this is rarely done en masse so when one department goes, people start to wonder if they’re next and do some digging.
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!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”.
Should be in Uplifting News.
Except when looking for a new job and now so are 8k other people :/
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.
They can cry about it to AI Zuck. I‘m sure the machine will aid with words of unmatched wisdom.
Not small enough.
Oh no some of our colleagues at the torment nexus might be let go
I’m sure other people will still want to build torment nexuses (nexen? nexii?) so their long term prospects are probably okay. Humanity will never give up trying to build the torment nexus, we all love that book so much.
What is the point of working at Facebook anymore. What are you accomplishing working for this company. It doesn’t even have much of a clear product anymore.
They pay well. The ‘product’ they’ve been obliterating their money with the last 6 years or so has been AR tech which has not really come to fruition because the full package is kind of impossible (how you gonna fit a battery in a pair of AR glasses?).
Must be nice to work for principles.
$$$
Gotta eat and new grads need their first jobs on their resume. (Assuming Meta is even hiring new grad roles.)
places like meta,google requires quite extensive experience. grads have to try smaller tech.mid tech, but those seem to have vanished when they started laying off people in 23. if you are a fresh graduate in any stem/tech and are looking at the big tech/stem companies you are looking at the wrong place and setting up for disappointment/failure and might cause you to cherry pick, unless you can get int through nepotism or some how have 2+year experience before graduation, even then its very hard.
Their job postings required a lot of experience when I saw them on LinkedIn and indeed. Maybe they’ve lowered their standards. I just haven’t seen it considering they pay well into the $200k-$300k range.
