That’s funny because I don’t even work for meta and I’m also fucking miserable because of it
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Oh noes, all the angry reacts.
Crash already.
If you think, I, we, they, or anything in between, that gives two s**** about facebook employees or meta employees.You are so wrong.
Help those evil devil Weevils suffer more and then learn from their suffering.
Its Kind of like crime and punishment go hand in hand.
Ps> leave Facebook id your still on it.
Still shit for the SW engineer job market.
Burn it to the ground, metaphorically
And physically.
Especially physically.
Shh
I don't mean anything bad. I just feel for the people who lost their jobs.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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 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.
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.
"Dumb fucks"
-Suckerberg
android zuckerborg is unlikely to care about humanity
what's 8000 people potentially going homeless when fuckerberg can make ANOTHER billion dollars.
8000 people destroyed the fabric of society going homeless? Well, I heard there’s quite the homeless population in San Francisco so they’ll fit right the fuck in!
But, hey, any of them want to prove me wrong and maybe dump the data that they have from working for one of the worst companies to ever exist then I’ll give them a pass.
When you put it that way, the employees should be elastic about being fired.
Meaning they’ll spring back?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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