'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers - AOL
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Meta's forthcoming layoffs will reportedly eliminate about 10% of its workforce, even as Q1 profits hit $26.8 billion and AI spending rockets toward $145 billion this year alone.
    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 天前

      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.”

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    6 天前

    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

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    6 天前

    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.

  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    27·
    7 天前

    Is this to help them burn cash on AI a bit longer? That’s how I’m taking it.

  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 天前

    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.

  • Nomorereddit@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    7 天前

    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.

      • Nomorereddit@lemmy.todayEnglish
        11·
        7 天前

        That’s like saying shutting down ice is bad for the law enforcement market.

        Sure, I guess, technically. But its a small price to pay to stop the wickedness of this world.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1664·
    7 天前

    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!

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 天前

      For those of us on the outside looking in, 99% of what we see is Zuckerberg and we hate him and we think oh well anyone who works for him must be a miserable asshole. But Meta is a big place where some ~70,000 people work, and their experience of working there is not actually 99% made up of tossing Mark’s salad. I’m sure some parts of the company are better to work for and some are worse. A lot of people there have a great experience most of the time. When I’ve visited the campus it has had high energy and it comes across as a place where a huge number of very smart, high achieving young people have been assembled all together, with more money than god has behind them to build the next big thing. To somehow turn all of that bad is actually noteworthy.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        6 天前

        I am not an idiot that is unaware that most people working for Meta will never even meet Zuckerberg.
        But if the head is rotten, it usually goes all the way down. Because that’s the hierarchy of policies and who gets hired.
        Zuckerberg has zero empathy, and he will not detect and appreciate it people he hires. And this is repeated downwards.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            6 天前

            Just because it can look good on the surface when you visit, doesn’t mean the effect isn’t there.
            You just don’t see it, until you see it.

            • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 天前

              Let’s just define all the degrees of knowing anything:

              1. you have used Facebook.com and read a bunch of headlines about Mark Zuckerberg (this is 99.9% of people and certainly almost everyone in this thread).
              2. you work in the same industry as Facebook so you hear things and have some frame of reference for them
              3. you work in the same industry and have actual friends who work there
              4. you work in the same industry and have friends who work there and have visited on site
              5. you have worked there yourself for a brief time
              6. you have worked there for a long time
              7. you have worked there for a long time and other places in the same industry so you have a frame of reference

              So yeah. I’m not a #7, just a #4, but this is a few degrees past #1

              But my point is not to argue that I know so much, just that the vast majority of people who think they can see everything from a million miles away are full of shit. They don’t know what they don’t know. I don’t know everything, but I at least have a sense of how much most people don’t know.

              • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13·
                6 天前

                I have never used Facebook, because I actually read their terms of use. And they were disgusting from day 1.

                But that absolutely doesn’t mean I don’t know about the company. I’d argue that working in the company only marginally increases your knowledge of it from a personal anecdotal experience, that may even skew your perception of the company.
                You can’t understand a company, just by being inside and be 1 of 70000 employees.

                I’d argue that already early on I knew more than many that worked there, just by actually reading their terms, and understand the mindset behind them.
                I also have the age and experience to have followed Facebook and Zuckerberg, and his appearances before congress, the fines that have been issued by EU, and many other things where it has been proven that Facebook is a shitty company.
                For instance their role in the first election of Trump, and cooperation with Cambridge Analytica.
                Generally a company that is total shit towards customers and children and even authorities and a population as a whole, and displays a shitty personality in general, will also be shitty towards their employees when it counts.

                • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  31·
                  6 天前

                  I knew more than many that worked there, just by actually reading their terms, and understand the mindset behind them.

                  Yeah okay, guy. You know more about it than people with direct experience. In fact their direct experience only clouds their minds!

                  You have a dangerous kind of arrogance. The kind that makes you think you know what’s best for others more than they do just by your piercing insight.

                  You also patently don’t understand how to read a TOS. They are by design incredibly over-reaching and self-interested to the exclusion of the rights of others. This is a legal fiction they reserve in advance so that no matter the eventuality, they can claim you agreed to it. It represents the uttermost limit of what they can imagine. Not the center of gravity of what it’s like to work there.

                  Anyway, I don’t need to hear more about how your insight penetrates the world from the comfort of your chair.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      341·
      7 天前

      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”.

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
      393·
      7 天前

      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.

        • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
          21·
          7 天前

          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…

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
    68·
    7 天前

    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.

      • Mister_Hangman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        7 天前

        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.

        • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          1·
          7 天前

          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.

    • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      24·
      7 天前

      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.

      • TootTootComingThru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        7 天前

        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.