In an internal memo to employees on Friday, Zuckerberg attempted to lift their spirits in what appears to be a notable failure to read the room. Specifically, the billionaire promised to host a companywide AI hackathon in July — only to get brutally shut down by workers who were in no mood for such a thing.
Zuckerberg offered employees access to permanent desks, a symbolic gesture that unintentionally illustrated how expendable many of them had become. Many employees at Meta have been working from “hot desks,” a controversial scheme involving multiple workers sharing the same desks.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
The part about severance that is easy to miss it is so central to the show is that it is a mirror to the everyday inhumanity of modern business culture especially when there is no counterbalancing force like unions to moderate the insanity of what the people at the top want.
Severance makes the point over and over again how tragic and meaningless it is that people develop relationships sometimes over decades in organizations and yet have no power over when one day that person is essentially obliterated from their lives and their place in that organization and nobody can talk about it really on an emotional level.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What even is a pod sprint? I know all those words, but I’m not used to them going together like that.