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Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones To Talk To Each Other (nymag.com)
Facebook's reputation has only continued to get more sullied in recent weeks, and it's taking a toll on employees. According to a new report, things over at the old FB are, well, kind of grim. From the report: "People now have burner phones to talk shit about the company -- not even to reporters, just to other employees," one former employee said. Another described the current scene as a "bunker mentality," meaning that after nearly two years of continuous bad press some people are, to borrow a phrase, leaning in as hard as they can to cope. "It's otherwise rational, sane people who're in Mark's orbit spouting full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook," said the former employee. Further reading: Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave.
You're not paranoid if they're actually after you.
Russian trolls
Yeah, it couldn't be just working people that don't like energy poverty. It's mindless Frenchmen doing the bidding of Russian trolls on Facebook.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Glassdoor just updated their best companies to work for list and Facebook is in the top 10 based on employee feedback. Methinks someone is lying to Glassdoor about their experience at Facebook.
Russian trolls
Yeah, it couldn't be just working people that don't like energy poverty. It's mindless Frenchmen doing the bidding of Russian trolls on Facebook.
Are you trying to say people don't like it when tax breaks for the rich get loaded onto the everyman? Nah, it's gotta be them Russians.
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shit, they might be reading this...
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Considering the ammount of damage, targetted destruction, and graffiti left behind, it has absolutely nothing to do with labour, or taxation.
Anarchists, extremists, and just plain old fashioned assholes always attach themselves to large protests because it gives them an excuse to break shit.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Since the point of using a burner phone is not to let people know, how would anyone credibly be able to assess the widespread use of burner phones?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Sorry, you don't ever leave Facebook...
There's no way out of here
When you come in
You're in for good...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Summary makes it sound like they only talk to each other on phones...
The media is being unfair to Facebook.
Also, Facebook is terrible and Facebook has taken a very long series of actions that are arrogant and insular. Facebook keeps making big mistakes and Facebook shows no signs of changing what matters.
It's not clear that Facebook even could change its most basic problems:
- it encourages emotional unhealthiness
- its business model is exploitative of Facebook users
- and therefore Facebook is a magnet for trolls who want to exploit users
- we don’t trust Facebook
- we don't want to hear our friends parrot shit they saw on the news (because all it tells us is that our friends haven't learned that the news media is trolling them)
STILL with the "blame the foreigners" narrative? Jesus, it's amazing how useful that is to brush aside the real concerns of working class people. No, nobody can possibly be getting screwed by the system that was set up to screw people, it's gotta be those dirty foreigners who are doing this to us.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
If they were really paranoid, couldn't they just use Whatsapp? I hear that's secure.
Oh wait...
You are welcome on my lawn.
We should take a huge hint from them. They know what goes on behind the scenes. Everything you say is archived - not because it's bad today. No, it will be stored and used against you later. It's a weapon. A new kind of weapon, and the Facebook employees know exactly what it's capable of. They're not being paranoid. Paranoia is an irrational fear.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
If facebook had not done the entirely stupid and irresponsible things that it looks as if they have done, I doubt if the press would be reporting about the deeds of facebook. Those people mentioned as being in Mark's orbit need to look at themselves for the cause of all the press attention.
to set up Stingray interceptors within their corporate sites, if people want to get any more paranoid. You know, in the interests of national security...
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Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Employees also referenced Dara Khosrowshahi, the current CEO of Uber who was brought in to take over for Travis Kalanick and clean up his mess. The suggestion here is that bringing in somebody new, somebody who isn’t Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg, could help fix Facebook. This, of course, seems highly unlikely and, as loyalty to leadership at Facebook runs deep.
Media likes to stir the pot every bit as much as the Russians, and probably conspire (or at least are complicit) with the Russians to stir the shit for ratings. Pretending only one side benefits is why this shit isn't going to end any time soon.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Jeez people, if a job is that bad, leave. Staying is just as much a choice as leaving. I've left jobs I hated and taken pay cuts and never looked back. Peace of mind has a definite value. Surprise ending: if you really enjoy what your doing, you'll be good and make more in the end.
Delete your facebook.
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"loyalty to leadership at Facebook runs deep" vs "People now have burner phones to talk shit about the company"
Which is it???
These arent tax breaks targeted at the rich. These are taxes targeted at the rural and suburban populations.
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That's less contrary and more corollary.
I can message any friend I have with ease.
I can follow events at establishment that I enjoy if they are smart enough to actually use the Facebook event mechanism. Some put posts up saying they have an event but no actual event.
My friends see events I might attend and occasionally ask me if I'm going. So it helps me have actual face to face time with friends.
The event recommendations are actually decent. Their algorithm tens to see that you like ABC and other similar events (like ABC) appear in your feed.
People/companies that know how to use the invite system make events and send me invites. The invites are not obtrusive at all.
Facebook. Start monetizing the event system! And frankly, you need to send every company correspondence telling them THIS IS HOW TO USE EVENTS! Because quite frankly I enjoy events. And quite frankly I'd say only 20% of companies use them properly. I can't even find a god damned happy hour or trivia night. Well, every bar should have trivia night as a recurring weekly event and I should be able to find many of them. Instead I have to find this crap through looking at each companies web site or if I'm lucky they might have an image burried among their 100+ images that says what their weekly events are.
I can accept that there are some number of Russian trolls on Facebook doing what the OP says... not saying I *do* accept it, just that it's not unreasonable. But even if true, I also can accept that they have pretty much zero impact in the grand scheme.
Dark Reflection
It's been coming for the last few years, but The End is finally here for Facebook; everyone is now seeing what the true nature of the beast is, and it's ugly as sin. Time for you to all abandon ship just like the employees are. Formulate your own Facebook Exit Strategy and get off it now. Helping kill Facebook is probably the kindest thing you can do for everyone who is either still ignorant of how bad it is, is in denial about it, or just still sitting on the fence. Time for people to start being actually social, instead of social-media-fake-social.
Considering the ammount of damage, targetted destruction, and graffiti left behind, it has absolutely nothing to do with labour, or taxation.
Anarchists, extremists, and just plain old fashioned assholes always attach themselves to large protests because it gives them an excuse to break shit.
They didn't do that with the tea party protests. Why's that?
The overuse of contractions like this is downright obnoxious. "Who are" and "who're" (if that is even a contraction!) are both disyllabic and require the same amount of effort to say. Is this just a failure at trying to look lazy?
Parent brought up a good point...
In a very real sense, that is true. The media have been in a continuous uproar since the 2016 Presidential election and the Brexit vote, because the "wrong side" won, and Facebook is a very convenient target for part of the blame. It's not as if Facebook's business model was any different before 2016; the company has always had slimy business practices. The media simply gave Facebook a free pass up to that point.
It must be enormously frustrating to Zuckerberg and Sandberg to fight this battle, because their political leanings are no doubt on the progressive side, and Facebook fundamentally did nothing different in 2016 than it did in 2012. They can't comprehend why they're suddenly the bad guys. It's just that in the modern world of social media (which they helped to create), when the mob goes hunting for witches, someone has to be thrown on the pyre.
"Russian trolls" is the new online "Racist!" It's a meaningless term that is used to indicate that the person doesn't agree with you.
Once upon a time, the words had a real meaning, but in this age, I literally can't.
Boiling AIDS infested Lipton tea produces Lipton tea.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
You need parental controls.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
This situation must be reminiscent of living in communist countries.
Enjoy!
Just so we understand each other, you're saying that the paranoia among employees in literally one of the largest Capitalist companies in the world is like living in a Communist country?
You do realize this sullies Capitalism even more than it does Communism, right? This implies that the power of the Corporation is so great that it rivals or even exceeds that of the nation-state...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
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The bunker is real, and it's spectacular.
Russians weigh the same as a duck
saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook
Stop being a dick, maybe? Sometimes the bully deserves to get their ass kicked.
The problem was that the Russians didn't care which way it swirled, and used a random back and forth motion. The media in America only wants it to swirl to the left.
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Haha! Doing that. Changed jobs. Roll the 401K over. Check is in the mail during the dip.
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Nooo, not Lipton........ aaarg :O
Asking for a friend.
We already correlated your location with your burner phone. And then ran facial recognition to confirm it was you.
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Well, torturing their children in front of them isn't happening on a large scale either.
If you don't like what's happening to you there's always scope for violence. That might get you killed but hey, you're the one claiming something's worse than being killed.
Who wants to hang out with granma and grandpa? Those fuckers might break a hip.
I know that the snowflakes have a reputation for being fragile, but I don't think they're THAT fragile ...
power of the tech they worked on.
Did they chat with their friends doing voice recognition for ads?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
What is that? FaceFuck employees are unhappy?
GOOD. FUCK ‘EM. Fuck them right in the fucking Face....Book.
Facebook, a long time ago, made my list of companies I cannot WAIT to watch go under.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
When you choose your burner, be very careful it doesn't have the Facebook app preinstalled.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
It seems entirely plausible and rational to think the media IS in fact 'out to get' Facebook. After all, the media, for the most part, is all about ad money, and Facebook is siphoning off traditional media's ad money by the billions. It could be argued it's irrational to think the media ISN'T out to get FB.
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Your comment is irrational, it is possible for more than one thing to be happening in the world at any given time. It is possible for some foreigners to provoke and encourage bigotry while, simultaneously, other foreigners are the subject of bigotry. That can happen. It's not a contradiction.
There's always a violent group willing and able to join any available protest.
That's because to these European "Agenda 21ers," for lack of a better word, want to force everyone into huge urban constellations - people are easier to control if they can be spied on continuously, and it's easy to do that in a city.
The whole "blame the foreigners" narrative is the weapon of first resort of those who despise the working class and wish them harm. It is used frequently to dismiss their legitimate concerns by claiming they are not genuine but dirty foreigners in disguise. One can see why it's popular, no arguments need be made, it's very easy to do.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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