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Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again (cnet.com)
From a report: If you work at Facebook, count yourself pretty lucky. And not just for the free meals, on-site health care or new-parent benefits. But those things probably factor into the social-networking giant being named the best place to work in 2018 by jobs site Glassdoor. And it's probably been a good experience for a while, seeing how this is the third year in a row Facebook has been atop Glassdoor's list of 100 best places to work. If you don't work at Facebook, there might still be hope for you. Glassdoor said there were 40 newcomers on this year's list, including video game maker Blizzard Entertainment (at No. 28 on the list) and wireless carrier T-Mobile (No. 79). There are also three veterans that have made the list every year since it was introduced 10 years ago, including management-consulting firm Bain & Company (No. 2), search giant Google (No. 5) and Apple (No. 84).
Like Bisbee, AZ or Foxconn City.
Free meals, medical care on site? What's not to like? Pretty soon, they'll put up the housing and you'll never have to leave the company plantation.
This is why I like living and working in cities -- gives you more random interactions with people, a choice of where to live, work, eat, etc.
Why would working with a bunch of oversensitive precious snowflakes be a goal?
Facebook is just like this.
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Nor Uber, IBM, Oracle, HPE etc. Maybe I scanned too quickly.
Just go to the article: https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm
I am just wondering what may have happened to Google.
Did Google deteriorate or Facebook just became better?
Disclaimer: I post this message with a bias. I have come to hate Google of late; especially when it comes to product/feature execution on Android. I still use their products daily, though.
Of course it is.
It's a bastion of reactionary, authoritarian Leftism plonked right down in the middle of one of the furthest left-leaning cities in a state that's practically deranged by how far left it leans.
(These people think if they subvert local government, they can completely exempt themselves from federal laws whenever they want. Oh, and they want to secede because the rest of the country isn't as nuts as they are.)
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Do they know that Zukerberg will know how they voted for this survey and so they voted to make sure they stay on the good books?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
If you enjoy a marketplace monopoly. Eventually the winds of fate will change and FB will face real market realities.
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And lacking a sense a sense of ethics.
If you like the place you work when asked you fill out the survey, "Yeah cool a great place to work". If you hate it you leave. I cannot discern their methodology but I suspect this may be an important factor.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
So I can sit in Mark Zuckerbergs "world's largest" open plan office every day. What's not to love?
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(a) FB HQ is not in San Francisco, it's in Menlo Park, closer to San Jose.
(b) California's residents are fairly centrist. There's just less religious nutbaggery as far as wanting to control what science people learn in school (birth control, sex ed, etc).
(c) California would do well as the world's (7th?) largest economy if Calexit happens (don't Conservatives want CA out, already?). They'd probably even make a free-trade pact with Mexico just to annoy the Trumpites.
Wether a place is good to work at or not depends on your personal circumstances - what job do you do, who are your immediate colleagues and manager, how far do you have to commute to work etc. I've seen many companies were certain departments were treated like kings, while other people doing different jobs are treated like dirt.
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Why the fuck would I care about a shitty free meal and shitty medical care if I get paid enough to buy really badass some?
employees who don't like the environment are sent to Guantanamo for waterboarding
Right, what kind of leftist hell hole must it be where people are happy and content at work...
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Stockholm Syndrome. Sure, the perks must be nice. But literally living in Big Brother's House has got to do something to their heads. Give a good review, or get fast tracked out the door. And Big Brother is watching...
... came in at number 19.
Could it be that this list actually reflects organizations incentivizing voting on the list, rather than what the list purports? I wonder.
LEFTIST this, LIBERAL that, blah blah blah
As opposed to, what, exactly? Some bible-thumper state like Florida or Alabama? Yeah, they're so fucking civilized and intelligent. How about you shut the actual fuck up, Trump fag? Better yet go light yourself on fire. Sick to DEATH of you fucktards. Let's see how smart you are when Mueller has your boy Trump hauled off to prison along with the rest of the traitors in his administration.
Back in the day, when I worked at a Serious Company that took these things Seriously, we employees learned to give everything the top rating. That cut down on the inevitable bullshit that followed the survey, as management attempted to force us to fix whatever scored badly.
And I say, please, don't let the door hit you in the rear on the way out. Go, please!
They might, be default, already have NAFTA - if they choose to inherit things that they had from the US. But that may not be the case. And yes, if Cali left many of us would be happy - and I'm not particularly conservative, I'm more libertarian. Too bad California IS incredibly leftist - at least within 50 miles of the coast.
Right, what kind of leftist hell hole must it be where people are happy and content at work...
Lots of cult members are happy where they are too. The only thing it really means is that the brainwashing is working.
Do you want to work for a company founded by a bunch of douche bags.
Source: "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich
"Nuts" is a good way of putting it. I had some friends move down that way for a couple years, then they moved back up to the Midwest. When they came back they had completely changed and talked as if they were in a cult. They weren't actually in a cult...they'd just been drinking all the far-left koolaid, but the similarities were scary.
I wish all these people who liked working for facebook liked being ethical more. Facebook is doing some really fucking scummy sketchy shit when it comes to people's privacy. It's not cool.
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I mean, sure its good for a fast food job, but higher than Salesforce? Hubspot? Google?
... that you have to open a Facebook account and use Facebook if you work there. I mean, would they even call me back after digging up my dark profile? Heh. So much for #1.
Calexit is idiotic, and thankfully not even up to the people of California. You'd really think this country would risk losing such a major breadbasket over a couple political differences? And unlike the Civil War, the rest of the country would have major advantages over the weakened Californian political state. California would have more to lose from breaking off from the union.
I get to censor people! WHEE!!!
I otice the "muh freeze peach" crowd have been awfully quiet about Facebook's latest actions:
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
I think you all have a huge case of double standards.
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Lots of cult members are happy where they are too. The only thing it really means is that the brainwashing is working.
People in cults are happy.
Ergo anyone happy is in a cult.
Therefore we should make everyone unhappy so we guarantee they're not in a cult.
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Everybody who agrees with someone else's views usually refers to them as centrist. I'm sure Stalin thought his views were fairly centrist as well. And don't even pretend California could exist on its own. Just the water issue alone is enough to derail it.
The state is already broke with all infrastructure and public services in total collapse
Oh, that's adorable - you watch Fox News! I know this because reality doesn't actually reflect the nonsense you're asserting as fact, and Fox & Friends are the main outlets for that particular fiction.
add a defense budget and it would be lights out.
First, I agree that Calexit is nuts. I don't support it at all. That said, back in reality land, California and other blue states prop up the rest of the country financially. CA could afford to maintain the military bases it already has if we weren't saddled with supporting broke-ass red states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Montana, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Nuclear or solar desalination. Heard of it?
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When you start bragging about how sparkly the shackles around your neck are, we've reach peak Huxleyism.
(a) FB HQ is not in San Francisco, it's in Menlo Park, closer to San Jose.
(b) California's residents are fairly centrist. There's just less religious nutbaggery as far as wanting to control what science people learn in school (birth control, sex ed, etc).
(c) California would do well as the world's (7th?) largest economy if Calexit happens (don't Conservatives want CA out, already?). They'd probably even make a free-trade pact with Mexico just to annoy the Trumpites.
You keep telling yourself that.
1. California secedes from the U.S.
2. Parts of California outside of San Fransciso Bay area, Sacramento, and LA/San Diego secede from California and rejoin the U.S.
3. Where does LA and San Francisco and their neighboring areas of the new country get their water? That's now no longer mostly coming from within the same state, but from another country entirely.
And that's just one resource.
BTW, have you ever looked at the pension guarantees California has on its books for government employees? California isn't run by the Democrats - it's more like the Democrats are run by the government employee unions there. As a state, it can (and is going to...) go bankrupt and weasel out of its obligations. As a sovereign nation, it would have to be solely responsible for its own finances - bankruptcy is not an option. How do you think that's going to work out? Oh sure, it can walk away from its pension obligations to its own citizens, but that would be a conscious choice of the California government - they won't be able to pass the buck.
And as far as making a free-trade pact with Mexico? Hell, they'd have to form their own military and start actually enforcing their borders (it's amazing what actual responsibility would do...) else the Reconquista likely commence and the parts of California that became independent would be PART of Mexico - unless, of course the rest of the U.S. defended them...
And without California electoral votes, no Democrat would ever be elected as President of the U.S., barring some major reconfiguration of the Democratic Party.
A) Tomato, Tomato. It's basically the equivalent of driving from the south side of Chicago to the north side. Pfft. And considering that, north to south, Cali is almost TWICE the length of Illinois and roughly the same width... Let's just agree that your idea of "near" and mine are different...
B) Californians come in 4 varieties.
* 1) Crazies
* 2) People who're stuck there with the crazies.
* 3) People who're in the process of moviing out.
* 4) People who're moving in because they don't understand "CRAZIES!"
It's especially bad around college towns. They're hotbeds of communal brain rot.
C) But only so long as they have an endless supply of cheap, illegal labor. Having to actually pay going labor rates instead of paying pennies? OHNOEZ!
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Look again. It's not just how much are these states putting out.
How much federal money are they consuming?
Do the proper comparison and you'll find a much different picture.
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Yeah, but this is the Trail Mix state.
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And good luck procuring enough solar capacity to make desalination a viable option.
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No. There's simply ample evidence to draw a conclusion that FB is a heavily biased place to work in.
So long as your biases line up with theirs? It's all smooth sailing.
The second they DON'T? Look for a new job FAST because your life will become a living hell.
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Sorry, I don't find passive-aggressive snark-mavens such as yourself to be civilized OR intelligent. It's just a lie you tell yourself to feed into your superiority complex.
And, to highlight your idiocy. You're telling someone, ON THE INTERNET, to shut up. #Futility
"Light yourself on fire"
Yep, this is what I've come to expect from people like you.
"Trump Fag"
Didn't vote for him.
Don't care for him.
Liked Clinton even less.
Living in a state that's only Blue because of Chicago, my vote didn't really count for much. Still, I wrote-in.
Sorry if you dislike my take on you and the rest of the crazed Far Left.
But, unlike you, the take is MINE. Nobody else indoctrinated me into it.
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No. I simply view it as a limited instance of people's own shortsightedness coming back and biting them in their over-privileged ass.
It doesn't mean I find censorship a Good Thing. Even with an isolated incident of egalitarianism.
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Only Americans could believe that California is "far left" or even "left" at all.
To the rest of the world, Californian politics and society are very far from left - centre-right at the very most. Neo-liberal corporate capitalism with a few minor bandaids to help keep it from being completely unbearable.
Americans tend to believe that anything which makes life under capitalism even slightly more tolerable is outrageously socialist.
so, yeah, California is deranged....but less so than most of the rest of America. and deranged by leaning towards the far right, not the left.
PS: I'd like to see the more civilised parts of America (i.e. most of the east and west coast, and northern border states) secede from the US, and build a huge fucking wall around Jesusland to keep the worst nutters inside. It would still be a far-right corporate kleptocracy, but that's better than a corporate kleptocracy combined with a stone-age theocracy.
Read the charts again that show how much they send to the government for each dollar they get back. Blue states overwhelmingly donate a lot more to red states. The numbers are right there in the links I gave you.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
EA is in the list at position 56.
Really? All i ever read about EA is not how horrible they are for gamers, but for their employees too.
apple from 36th to 84th.
Ergo anyone happy is in a cult.
Um, no. That is the most ridiculous logic I've heard in a very long time and I am now dumber for having read that. It terrifies me that people like you are allowed to vote.
Um, no.
No shit sherlock!
That is the most ridiculous logic I've heard in a very long time and I am now dumber for having read that.
That's why I was mocking the OP for it.
It terrifies me that people like you are allowed to vote.
It sort of terrifies me that you vote after getting the wrng end of the stick quite so hard.
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