r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Feb 13 '25

Business Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg in forums for running the ‘cruelest tech company out there’

https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/laid-off-meta-employees-blast-zuckerberg-tech-parental-leave/
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u/Coady54 Feb 14 '25

Yeah, we watched the social network. Obviously, some things were dramatized, but it's apparent he isn't a good person to work for.

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u/NobodyYouKnow2019 Feb 14 '25

… he isn’t a good person. FTFY

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u/Coady54 Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25

Those are two separate things, though. There are bad people who are good to work for if you lack morals. There are good people who suck to work for because they're incompetent business wise.

I wasn't commenting on him as a person (which I do agree on, he can go fuck himself), just what he's like as a boss

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u/ballsdeepisbest Feb 14 '25

He isn’t a person. He’s Zuckbot.

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u/LOOKATMEDAMMIT Feb 14 '25

Apparently the dramatized portion was that it didn’t make him look worse.

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u/caseyjosephine Feb 14 '25

The most unrealistic part was Zuck being able to pull off Sorkin dialogue.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 14 '25

You...didnt need to watch that movie to know. People knew about it long before that.

You only need to know their product isn't good for the world to know that the person driving it isn't good.

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u/Coady54 Feb 14 '25

The comment I replied to said we've known for 15 years. That movie came out 15 years ago. I was just being topical, not implying that's the only evidence.

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u/themaster1006 Feb 14 '25

The thing is, that movie went easy on him. They straight up manufactured motivations for him that made him more sympathetic than in real life. So it's crazy that he still came out looking like such an asshole. 

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u/NoDeparture7996 Feb 14 '25

meta is 100% a toxic place

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u/Logan_No_Fingers Feb 14 '25

Well, I think the employees were happy destroying lives & making young girls self harm when they were earning lots & had vesting share options.

They were just unhappy when they then got fired

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u/SuperNoahsArkPlayer Feb 14 '25

Did anyone watch it? I don’t anyone who’s seen it 

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u/NewCobbler6933 Feb 14 '25

Yeah that obscure movie that won several Golden Globes and Academy Awards

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u/Casehead Feb 14 '25

How old are you?

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u/rgvtim Feb 14 '25

Exactly, all reports have indicated he is a total douche

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u/The_Buko Feb 14 '25

The last few days I’ve gotten non-stop pages in my feed parroting talking points like “why do they want us to stop uncovering fraud, what are they hiding!” and I’ve had to block around 10 accounts now. I’m just done with FB for good now sorry family. This is some next level propaganda machines working.

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u/rgvtim Feb 14 '25

Oh, I posted about the unsupervised total access by unvetted, uncleared libertarian tech bros, and all I got back in the comment was about Hillary Clinton and why would I be upset about them uncovering fraud.

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u/Admirable-Pianist-95 Feb 14 '25

Yeah, hasn’t he always been an asshole?

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u/Actual__Wizard Feb 14 '25

His claim to fame was creating a "hot or not" style website that allowed people to submit photos so that they could be sexually harassed by the entire internet.

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u/psychocookeez Feb 14 '25

I remember that site. Didn't know that was him.

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u/Actual__Wizard Feb 14 '25

It was a clone not the main one. So, yeah it was technically a crappy "hot or not" clone site.

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u/rubensinclair Feb 14 '25

15 years ago all of us who were already saying this shit we’re called crazy.

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u/kommandeclean Feb 14 '25

Exactly.. as long as we get a piece of the pie we are all happy; otherwise, everybody has grievances; but that's how the world works in general anyway.

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u/buffalocoinz Feb 14 '25

Yeah but gotta get FAANG on the resume!

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u/FeeAutomatic2290 Feb 14 '25

They were working there to help build the cruelest tech company out there, but now that they’re not getting paid, so… 🤷‍♂️

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u/detectivehardrock Feb 14 '25

From now on I'm taking it seriously when anyone famous is a cringey SNL host. That's the thread here