• NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    In his memo, Zuckerberg predicted that even more difficult days could be ahead for the company, despite vowing to hold off on any future layoffs for the rest of the year.

    “Given the complexity of these changes, we’ve made mistakes and will almost certainly make more,” he admitted.

    “I will certainly make more mistakes that you will have to pay for, but I can promise you you will probably not be laid off for at least six months.”

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      “I’m going to make a bunch of mistakes that will cost the company a lot of money and will cost many of you your jobs. But fret not, because I will experience zero consequences for this and will continue to deserve millions for being so smart and taking on all the risk.”

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      even more difficult days could be ahead

      The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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      I can also promise you that at the end of this, I will have a yacht and bunker, and you will probably have impostor syndrome.

      Fair deal eh?

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      vowing to hold off on any future layoffs

      He didn’t say anything about holding off past layoffs. Get ready for some retroactive shitcanning.

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    Zuckerberg offered employees access to permanent desks, a symbolic gesture that unintentionally illustrated how expendable many of them had become.

    IQ and wealth seem to be inversely proportional to each other.

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      Jesus, I thought this comment was a joke before reading the article

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      Insulation from consequences of your decisions and distance from ordinary people creates a special kind of stupidity. Nobody with a clue is going to speak up to him, and even if they do few would hold firm when he pushes back. Everything negative he hears will be said in anger or with a sugar coating and there will be plenty of people lining up to assure him it isn’t true. He’s been insulated and if the whistleblowers are correct, he actively fostered his insulation. If he cared he’d read the book about his failures as a leader. But he doesn’t have to care, nobody is going to make him until suddenly he very much does have to care and it’s too late.

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    Desperate to recreate that startup atmosphere and stop everyone thinking about how they work for an evil data collection machine.

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    By this point in time, after Alderaan and a couple more planets have been blown up, you should probably have figured out that being an Engineer for the Empire’s Death Star makes you one of the baddies even if you’re not the one pressing the red button.

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      Gotta make a livong somehow. Where else can I get a job with a PhD in Weapons of Mass Destruction Engineering?

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    If all the employees got together and picked a special day, perhaps something symbolic like the the 4th of july, and picked their favorite command to run perhaps rm -rf /. That sort of team building is great for moral and it also benefits society.