Burn it to the ground, metaphorically
And physically.
Especially physically.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
When you put it that way, the employees should be elastic about being fired.
Meaning they’ll spring back?
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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 [email protected].
They can cry about it to AI Zuck. I‘m sure the machine will aid with words of unmatched wisdom.
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.
Not small enough.
