“The beatings will continue until morale improves”
Many employees at Meta have been working from “hot desks,” a controversial scheme involving multiple workers sharing the same desks.
They were doing this as far back as 2020, as I recall. It was my least favorite part of going into the office because you had to reserve a desk, and you were never guaranteed the same desk on any given day.
They only needed to do it because they made everyone working from home start coming into the office for no reason other than to assert their dominance.
They were doing it before then.
pretty hardcore! desk = money! Got any more stories to tell? Would love to have them at !DeMeta@lemmy.world
I do, but a lot of them are actually pretty fond memories. I hate to say it, but it was a really good job. I was also on the AR/VR team, so my experience was a bit different from that of the rest of the company.
Was it like a startup in the the mega corp kinda vibe? Also I wonder if you have a guess as to where all that money ($80B+?) went Meta lost there ;)
It was, yeah. A lot of the infrastructure was still standing from when it was Oculus so it felt super detached from everything else.
As for the 80B, I can confidently say that a solid chunk of that went to software licenses, believe it or not. They were spending millions a year on their on-prem GitHub Enterprise server alone, which was technically redundant because the rest of Meta had an in-house Mercurial megarepo that, surprisingly, worked really well. They may have moved off of that by now, though, since I was last employed there in 2024.
Celebrate your increased workloads peasants.
“You better have fun and love your work so much that you do unpaid overtime, or else!”
INITIATE TANGENTIALLY UNPREDICTABLE ACTIONS
“HAVE FUN, GODDAMIT! THATS A FUCKING ORDER!”
RIP Andre
I’ve just started rewatching Brooklyn 99 and this is how I find out he died :(
Dude, yeah, he was so good in that role!! Loved that whole show
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I beat you with until you follow my ruttin’ commands!
Okay Jayne…
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything
This was my first thought and I knew if I scrolled I’d find it.
In his memo, Zuckerberg predicted that even more difficult days could be ahead for the company, despite vowing to hold off on any future layoffs for the rest of the year.
“Given the complexity of these changes, we’ve made mistakes and will almost certainly make more,” he admitted.
“I will certainly make more mistakes that you will have to pay for, but I can promise you you will probably not be laid off for at least six months.”
He’s just announcing the next wave of layoffs for the Christmas holidays.
Do you honestly believe he is going to stick to the moratorium?
Id sooner believe he tasks AI-zuckerberg to lay them off.
technically I didn’t lay anyone off.
„Many of you will be laid off but that’s a sacrifice I‘m willing to make“
I knew that someone will comment that 😂😂😂
It’s because when you write assholes well, assholes can’t help but deliver.
Zuck Brannigan
“I’m going to make a bunch of mistakes that will cost the company a lot of money and will cost many of you your jobs. But fret not, because I will experience zero consequences for this and will continue to deserve millions for being so smart and taking on all the risk.”
even more difficult days could be ahead
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I can also promise you that at the end of this, I will have a yacht and bunker, and you will probably have impostor syndrome.
Fair deal eh?
Now that’s a evil boss thing to say.
he means he will likely force layoffs on the already “skeleton crewed” staff in the future anyways.
vowing to hold off on any future layoffs
He didn’t say anything about holding off past layoffs. Get ready for some retroactive shitcanning.
Zuckerberg offered employees access to permanent desks, a symbolic gesture that unintentionally illustrated how expendable many of them had become.
IQ and wealth seem to be inversely proportional to each other.
Jesus, I thought this comment was a joke before reading the article
Insulation from consequences of your decisions and distance from ordinary people creates a special kind of stupidity. Nobody with a clue is going to speak up to him, and even if they do few would hold firm when he pushes back. Everything negative he hears will be said in anger or with a sugar coating and there will be plenty of people lining up to assure him it isn’t true. He’s been insulated and if the whistleblowers are correct, he actively fostered his insulation. If he cared he’d read the book about his failures as a leader. But he doesn’t have to care, nobody is going to make him until suddenly he very much does have to care and it’s too late.
Fuck 'em. This far into Meta’s descent into a capitalist surveillance platform, they should know what kind of company they work for. They only find it to be a problem if they aren’t “finding meaning” in the “interesting technical challenges” of turning people into data points.
“Descent into” the main thing it’s been for 20 years.
Yea you all don’t really hate on these people enough. Il never understand that
Meta employee here. People here are so entitled. I knew what I signed up for, but it seems many of my colleagues were/are oblivious
You knew what you signed up for, but still signed up for it?
“Hmmmmm, this Adolph Hitler guy seems antisementic, and wants me to help him build an army. Welp. A job is a job…guess I’m a nazi soldier now…”
Same energy.
I mean I think comparing Zuck to Hitler is a stretch, but also consider that Hitler would be a lot more limited if his soldiers knew what was going on and were morally concious
But yea I do it for the money. I make over 5x the salary compared to my previous job
Just like I block all your employer’s domains I block you. I’ve had the chance to sell out too but it’s kind of gross that you know that what you’re doing is wrong but you rationalize it with “because money.”
Maybe he just didn’t want to work till death. The big tech companies used to pay enough that you could retire early fairly easily. Few other opportunities for that unless you’re born into wealth and connections.
Idk if they still pay the same after all the layoffs, I haven’t kept up because under Trump, the US is no longer an attractive place to work.
ICE is also offering a $50k sign-on bonus, fyi.
That’s peanuts though?
$50k, and be the inside snitch. Too bad my knees are shit
I knew what I signed up for
Rare nazi self snitch?
.ml user, so probably proud of it.
Desperate to recreate that startup atmosphere and stop everyone thinking about how they work for an evil data collection machine.
Real, these devs are the software equivalent of Lockheed Martin engineers.
People dont start having fun just because you specifically request it, Mark.
If anything, a directive from the boss to have fun in the absence of extra money and time off will inspire the opposite of fun. Like being told to deal with burnout by forcing more meetings, surveys, seminars and training about burnout.
Do you think he knows the meaning of the word?
He thinks he does. Its just, we dont find it fun to purchase entire presidencies, build private schools only for our chosen children in our backyards, and stare at Mrs Bezo’s plastic tits like they’re being reborn in flame before our very eyes.
That last bit is something I think for once I’m glad not to know about.
She’s incased in plastic anyways. Itd be like looking at a melted action figure.
But it’s an ORDER!! 😡😤
