That’s funny because I don’t even work for meta and I’m also fucking miserable because of it
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.
Let’s hear about the interest free loan you got from your parents or an inheritance or other type of support that you got that most others don’t before you start preaching about not having to play that fucking game though.
Because that’s basically every single, “I work for myself/I’m a self starter/college is just brainwashing” self made entrepeneur story I’ve ever heard.
Joke’s on them for not unionizing.
Some have tried. They have a long history of suppressing unionization efforts.
Full time employees are not currently unionized, although some contractors indirectly employed by Meta are. In April 2024, the NLRB ruled that Meta had unlawfully restricted employees right to organize, including “non-disparagement and confidentiality restrictions (that) prohibited former employees from raising workplace concerns with co-workers, labor organizations, or the public, preventing them from finding support when dealing with labor disputes. These restrictions would also apply even if former employees’ statements were truthful.”
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.
Setting yourself on fire is terrible
How do I keep finding new clips! It’s been 11 years since the show stopped airing!!!
underrated meme lol
Hang the higher-ups in minecraft
They use the Metaverse there.
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.
I’d imagine the people they’re letting go are the programmers and developers rather than the money people
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.
Meta was making Threads federate, so they know at least.
Yeah of the people in techI’ve spoken to about the fediverse, even the ones that did know only had a surface level understanding, and didn’t seem to consider it something that was for them for whatever reason.
Yeah, i’ve had a similar experience. Even with those friends running their own servers seem to have a lack of awareness. Considering the strength of the Linux and Foss communities here i’m surprised more information hasn’t crossed over into other forums.
Is it just because we stop using the commercial platforms when we switch to fedi? I assumed most people were dual users though
I don’t think they realize how easy it is to just walk away.
I was stuck on that treadmill for years before I realized
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.
Placement of the events page is wonderfully hard. A lot of effort must have been spent making that very unidentifiable.
I guess thats a “wow! How did they do that?” Moment for me.
Seems so since no one can fucking do it.
It’s more about the money than the technology.
8000 people who were morally bankrupt enough to work for facebook.
I don’t see them coming here en masse to help pave the future for lemmy without any monetary incentives
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.
Who would think that a company whose site is basically a safe haven for racists and trolls at this point with no moderation would push away your average person and need to dump staff
Here in Australia, you can barely even comment on anything anymore without some tryhard being racist or abusing the government. Even worse, lots of people with criminal incitement that gets ignored
Literally saw a photo of cane toads. Some wanker commented “that’s Albo penny Wong and dan andrews”. There was no reason to be political at all
It’s just no longer fun on there. And there is no way to block all posts by people you don’t know by default from your wall
I typically want good things for all people, but I don’t feel bad for people who knowingly worked for an evil company when bad things happen.
aol.com
Is this to help them burn cash on AI a bit longer? That’s how I’m taking it.
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?
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.
program captures keystrokes, clicks, mouse movements and periodic screenshots […] to train AI agents capable (?) of mimicking human workflows
Question mark added. Adding insult to injury, they’ve been training their “replacements”. Can’t wait to see the whole enterprise go down in flames.
“Dumb fucks”
-Suckerberg
android zuckerborg is unlikely to care about humanity
Oh noes, all the angry reacts.
Crash already.
Again?!
