I see, so the Meta employees have the typical conservative mindset: any misdeed is perfectly fine as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.
That’s what I thought - it’s probably not just the employees of social media companies who feel this way, but also those at Palantir and similar. Not to mention the “defense” contractors and the like.
I really wonder how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror.
I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him “but what’re you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?”
He just shrugged. Didn’t care. The money was good.
I don’t know if this alone is proof that’s a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.
I would argue no. Partly because I am in a similar situation. But also because I would be a fool to quit such a stable, laid back job in a market where it is extremely difficult to find a job in my field.
Granted I also do care. But not enough to risk poverty.
Why does the military advertise the most towards the poor?
Employees working for evil company: “Hey evil company don’t do evil stuff to us”
Evil company does evil thing to them
Employees: =O
Employees*
“Hey, the massive spy machine isn’t supposed to be used on us!”
Lol, imagine working at an evil empire and this being your biggest annoyance.
Actually so absurd yeah. Im still on their side from a workers perspective, but also they are part of the reason this shit exists…
Came here to say this. They facilitate so much violence and bloodshed, and this is what they take issue with.
ah so it’s fine when you develop software and tools to spy on your userbase and hell people who aren’t even in your userbase but when it comes to the higher ups at meta using YOUR data to train YOUR AI that’s too far huh?
It’s always just a matter of time until you’re not part of the protected in-group anymore…
obviously a layoff tactic. Their AI group shit the bed after they burned millions on
third lifethe zuckerverseobviously a layoff tactic.
It sure smells like it, right? But, and I’m repeating myself and others, the important part here is that, if it is a layoff tactic, it’s a horrible one: as per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who leave as a result of declining workplace environment are those most able to leave, i.e the most employable staff, with each round of departures. Thus, the people whom Meta would want to stay around are the people most likely to find, get, and depart for jobs elsewhere. And while Meta are bastards, the mechanics of working in a massive org like that one score really well for skills companies want.
I wish them luck in this terrible job market, and hope they can find a supportive environment again. We can always do with more smart people working for the greater good instead of against it.
Millions? Try $77 B-b-billion.
Zuck is having all his keystrokes recorded too, right? Right?
Make sure the AI engineers get that data. Especially the passwords to his and the company’s bank accounts. All his accounts, actually.
There’s a reason why most businesses don’t implement keystroke logging.
Quit your job. Finding a new one shouldn’t be hard if you worked at Meta before.
The job market is actually pretty bad right now and with all the recent layoffs in tech very saturated. Unionizing would make more sense.
Doesn’t work on a Nazi threatening death with H1Bs.
I misread that as HB1s for a brief moment.
Alanis could write an extra line in a particular song about this.
Or she could write a new song about NIMBYism, hypocrisy etc.
The fuckers have become the fuckee’s.
This is a pretty misleading headline. There’s no reporting in the article here about a staff protest, just the same information reporting the change as the rest of news sources, with the Register’s more editorial writing style.
Hahahahahah!!!
Suck it.
Hey, I got some bad news for you: a shitload of corporations - and particularly, every one of the FAANG et al orgs - are surveilling the shit out of their workers, and this is not a new development.
I was going to say… almost any big org does this now. Tools like slack, teams, whatever… they all allow the bosses to spy on everything the worker bees do.
When you sacrifice all morals to work for tech bros so you can get more money I don’t think you have much of a say in things.
